The 2016 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium will be held from Sunday, June 12 to Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia (www.math.gsu.edu/~icsa). This year we gather here for the 25th ICSA annual symposium. The theme of this symposium is the Challenge of Big Data and Applications of Statistics, which is in recognition of the advent of big data era. The executive and organizing committees have been working diligently to put together a strong and comprehensive program including nine short courses, three keynote lectures, 134 scientific sessions, one student paper session and exciting social events. Our scientific program includes keynote lectures from renowned statisticians Dr. Bin Yu (University of California, Berkeley), Dr. David Madigan (Columbia University) and Dr. Paul Albert (National Institute of Health), and invited, topic contributed, contributed talks reflecting recent advances and challenges in statistics, business statistics and biostatistics, which are closely related to Big Data analysis. As suggested by the 2015 ICSA President Dr. Wei Shen, we are delighted to inform that during the conference we will also offer a free career service for graduate students. The program book of 2016 ICSA Symposium can be found at the conference website: http://www.math.gsu.edu/~icsa/program.html .
This year's symposium attracts more than 640 statisticians working in academia, government, and industry from all over the world. We hope that the symposium offers great opportunities for learning, networking and recruiting, and that you will receive inspirations from old research ideas and develop new ones. Social events in this 2016 ICSA Symposium include mixer (Sunday, June 12 evening), banquet (Tuesday, June 14 – banquet speaker will be Dr. Michael Eriksen) and a trip to the Stone Mountain (Wednesday, June 15th, 1-6pm). We believe this conference will be a memorable, interesting and enjoyable experience for you.
Yichuan Zhao, on behalf of
2016 Applied Statistics Symposium Executive and Organizing committees
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Yichuan Zhao
Georgia State University
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