Dear Colleagues,
A few updates about The 9th International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies (IWSM), Washington DC, USA, June 1-4, 2026:
Invited session proposals are solicited. Please submit your proposals here. Each session is planned for 1.5 hours. The default format is 3 talks, however, you are welcome to be creative and plan for 4 shorter talks, 3 talks + discussant, a panel discussion, etc. Please stay within the general scope of IWSM. Thank you for organizing! We have already received several excellent session proposals.
Travel support is available. The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is now co-sponsoring the 9th IWSM. As part of this collaboration, IMS offers travel grants to students and new researchers in support of their participation in the conference. Typical awards range from $500 to $1500. The application deadline is February 1, 2026. See details on the IMS site.
Sponsorship. In addition to IMS, the American Statistical Association (ASA) has also become a sponsor of the 9-th IWSM. Thank you, ASA and IMS!
Lodging. Besides discounted on-campus housing, a number of hotels in within a short ride of the conference venue (American University) have offered reduced rates for IWSM participants. Details will be posted on the conference web site, along with other timely updates.
IWSM meets every 2 years and brings together researchers and practitioners to share advances in sequential statistics and related fields. It features theoretical and applied work in areas such as sequential testing, change-point detection, multi-stage inference, sequential estimation, selection and ranking, machine learning, artificial intelligence, clinical trials, adaptive design, stochastic quality and process control, optimal stopping, reliability and survival analysis, stochastic approximation, applied probability, mathematical finance, and related fields of probability, statistics, and applications.
Please feel free to forward to colleagues who may be interested and contact us with any questions, suggestions, feedback, session proposals, speaker proposals, sponsor proposals, etc.
Early registration starts in 2 months (Oct 1), the conference – in 10 months (June 1).
Cheers
Michael and Yaakov
Michael Baron, American University, baron@american.edu
Yaakov Malinovsky, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, yaakovm@umbc.edu
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Michael Baron
David Carroll Professor in Mathematics and Statistics
American University
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