In 2017, the ASA Q&P Section’s Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be hosted by the University of Connecticut and held in Storrs, CT, between June 13 and 15, 2017. The theme of this year’s conference is Quality and Statistics: A Path to Better Life. The goal of the conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary research among statisticians, scientists, and engineers in quality and productivity, industrial needs, and the physical, engineering, and health sciences. Statistical issues and research approaches drawn from collaborative research will be highlighted. A poster session will highlight graduate and undergraduate student research on these topics.
The conference will honor Prof. Shelemyahu Zacks, from SUNY Binghamton, a prominent researcher in the fields of Quality, Reliability and Industrial Statistics.
Conference registration includes all meals including a banquet and a tour and reception at one of several high-tech research labs in the Storrs area (details to be provided at a later date).
For a small additional registration fee, a short course on Computational Bayesian Methods for Big Data Problems will be given on June 12, 2017 by Steve Scott, Director of Statistics Research at Google.
An important objective of the QPRC is to encourage student participation. Scholarships for participation in the conference include the Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarships and QPRC Student Scholarships. Additionally, QPRC 2017 received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for travel awards to graduate and undergraduate students from US academic institutions who plan to present their research at the conference. Special efforts will be made to support women and participants from under-represented groups.
The deadline for submitting a contributed paper is April 15, 2017.
The conference website, http://qprc2017.org, contains information on the program, registration, student and Natrella scholarships, paper and poster submissions, and hotel and dorm reservations. The website also provides links to previous QPRC conferences.
Register early, on or before April 15, 2017, and receive a substantial discount.
For further information on the conference, please contact Professor Nalini Ravishanker at nalini.ravishanker@uconn.eduor ProfessorHaim Bar at haim.bar@uconn.edu
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Emmanuel Yashchin
IBM Corporation
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