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In 2019, the 36-th ASA Q&P Section's Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be hosted by American University in Washington, DC from June 11 – 13, 2019.  The theme of this year's conference is Data and Science is a Winning Alliance.  The goal of the conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary research among statisticians, scientists, and engineers in quality and productivity. The conference aims to demonstrate and explore the marriage of data and science, the modern scientific approaches to handling big, multidimensional, and unstructured data. Its aim is to show convincingly how data and science, the two fundamental sources of knowledge, are using each other to produce new discoveries, progress, improved quality, and increased productivity. It will include comprehensive discussions of cutting-edge modern methodologies in all aspects of data science, the current progress made in such computer intensive fields as stream data mining, machine learning, functional data analysis, image reconstruction, and facial recognition. Participating statisticians, data scientists, quantitative analysts, and representatives of different branches of industry and government will exchange novel ideas and experience in working with modern big data to gain knowledge and apply it in numerous fields.

The conference will honor Dr. Barry Nussbaum, the former Chief Statistician of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the 112-th President of the American Statistical Association. 

Conference registration begins in January, 2019. For an additional registration fee, a short course on Big data analytics: dealing with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data by Dr. Choudur Lakshminarayan of Teradata Corp. will be offered before the conference, on June 10, 2019.

The conference website, fs2.american.edu/baron/www/QPRC-2019, contains the up-to-date information about the conference program, short course, registration, student scholarships and hotels. American University provides accommodation for conference participants who choose to stay on campus.

To submit a contributed paper for the 2019 QPRC, please provide the title, authors, and an abstract to Professor Michael Baron at baron@american.edu.

For further information on the conference, please contact Professor Michael Baron at baron@american.edu.