The second IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meetings will take place in OMIYA Sonic City conference hall (http://www.sonic-city.or.jp/modules/english/), Tokyo, Japan during the period July 3 (Sunday) - July 6 (Wednesday), 2011. The conference website is http://www.ims-aprm2011.org/. This conference is sponsored by Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA), The International Indian Statistical Association (IISA), The Japan Statistical Society (JSS), The Korean Statistical Society (KSS) and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM). This meeting series provides an excellent forum for scientific communications and collaborations for the researchers in Asia and Pacific Rim. It also promotes communications and collaborations between the researchers in this area and those from other parts of the world. The program covers a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics and in applications. Plenary speakers are Professor Peter Hall (University of Melbourne, Australia), and Professor S.R.S. Varadhan (New York University, USA). A number of celebrated scholars will deliver distinguished lectures and invited talks in this conference. Details about distinguished lecture speakers, invited talk speakers and the key dates can be found in the website. For more information, you may contact the program chairs: Byeong U. Park (bupark@stats.snu.ac.kr) and Runze Li (rli@stat.psu.edu). |