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The 37th annual Quality and Productivity Research Conference (QPRC) will be hosted by Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, on June 8 through June 11 of 2020. The 2020 conference theme reflects the changing nature of the discipline of statistics, "Data Science and Statistics for Quality." The overall aim of the conference is promotion of data science in diverse applied areas, in particular those associated with the fields of quality and process control. Statisticians, data scientists, and practitioners from all areas will propose and discuss the latest ideas and cutting-edge modern methodologies in all aspects of big data analysis and their applications. It will focus on the progress made in computationally intensive fields such as data mining, machine learning, functional data analysis, image reconstruction, statistical process control, and uncertainty quantification, among others. It will be a unique venue for them to form collaborations and interact with the next generation of rising students interested in these fields.　

The first day of the conference is a short course emphasizing computational methods for analyzing big data, "Introduction to Data Science the Tidy Way." The remaining three days consist of plenary, invited, and contributed presentations and poster sessions in the areas mentioned above. Details on the conference may be found at its web page: https://qprc2020.com/.　

Student participation is a vital part of the conference. We will engage students from numerous universities and graduate programs across the US. Students are invited to submit contributed talk and poster presentations and apply for scholarships for travel, registration, and the short course. We also encourage students to participate in the best paper award competition, see

Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarships.　

Conference registration has already begun. The conference web page, https://qprc2020.com/, contains information about the conference program, short course, registration, student scholarships, and hotel information. 　

To submit a contributed paper or a proposal for a contributed session for QPRC 2020, please provide the necessary information (titles, authors, abstracts) to Eric Chicken at chicken@fsu.edu.