Saturday 11 July 2009

Prof Rao's 90th Birthday - A Doyne in Statistics & A Man of the Century


CR RAO ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS,
STATISTICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (AIMSCS),
UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD CAMPUS, HYDERABAD – 500046
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Preliminary Announcement
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
Frontiers of Interface between Statistics and Sciences
31 DEC 2009 – 2 JAN 2010 at HYDERABAD
Organised by
C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
and sponsored by
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India,
American Statistical Association (ASA),
International Indian Statistical Association (IISA)

The conference is in honor of C.R.Rao, the living legend who will be attaining the age of 90 in 2010. The objective of the conference is to highlight the importance of statistics in knowledge discovery in the sciences.

There will be sessions on a variety of topics with the participation of 3 or 4 speakers in each. All contributed papers will be in the form of poster presentations. However, special request for inclusion of a contributed paper in an appropriate session will be considered. Two prizes of Rs.5000 each will be offered to authors of the best poster presentation as judged by a panel of experts.

The topics include new areas such as biometrics and bio-informatics, machine learning, design of experiments and orthogonal arrays, cryptography, data mining, technometrics, astrostatistics etc., in addition to current areas of Statistics and their applications.

There will be a registration fee of US $120 ( includes the new year eve banquet) for participants and US $50 for each accompanying person from advanced countries and Rs.3000 (includes the banquet) for others. The last date for sending the registration fee is 15 October, 2009. The mode of payment will be mentioned in the next announcement. The registration fee will cover cost of conference material, three lunches and tea breaks.

Limited accommodation will be available in the price range of $20 - $100 for rooms with attached bath for those who register by 15 October 2009. Participants are encouraged to check websites for other hotel accommodation as well.

Details will be posted in the next announcement (under preparation). Those requiring advance information are requested to contact Dr.S.B.Rao (siddanib@yahoo.co.in) or Dr.C.R.Rao (crr1@psu.edu).

Dr.S.B.Rao
Director

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