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The 37th annual Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be hosted by Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, on July 26 through July 29 of 2021. This conference is the main annual meeting for the Quality and Productivity Section of the American Statistical Association. The 2021 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. Massive amounts of data are being collected on a daily basis, processed and analyzed in virtually every branch of modern society and every aspect of everyday life, and so the science, quality, and statistical communities are obligated to keep up with the rapid growth and variety of collected data and provide up-to-date methodologies and guidance to those using this data. This conference will explore and promote ideas that will further this goal. Statisticians, data scientists, and practitioners from these 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 such 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, "Visualize, Munge, Present: Working Effectively With Tidyverse and RMarkdown." 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://qprc2021.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.

The conference will have a hybrid format. Sessions and participation will be both in-person and remote to accommodate those impacted by the pandemic.

Conference registration has already begun. The conference web page, https://qprc2021.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 2021, please provide the necessary information (titles, authors, abstracts) to Felipe Barrientos, abarrientos@fsu.edu.