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The International Indian Statistical Association is a non-profit organization. Its objectives are:

• to promote education, research and application of statistics and probability throughout the world with a special emphasis on the Indian subcontinent;
• to foster the exchange of information and scholarly activities between various countries as well as among other national/international organizations for the development of Statistical Science;
• to serve the needs of young statisticians;
• to encourage cooperative efforts among members in education, research, industry and business.

  Anyone who is interested in the objectives of the Association is welcome to become a member. Please navigate through our homepage to find more about us!

IISA Hosts a Conference at Storrs!      

- Malay Ghosh, President, IISA

The International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) held a conference titled "Frontiers of Probability and Statistical Science" at the University of Connecticut, Storrs on May 22-25, 2008 (http://merlot.stat.uconn.edu/~nitis/IISA2008/index.htm).  The conference was attended by nearly 180 participants representing countries including USA, Canada, India, Bangladesh, Japan, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Brazil and Egypt. There was participation from several industrial organizations including Novartis, Cytel, Merck, Pfizer and IBM. The conference was sponsored by a number of companies, the University of Connecticut and the ASA.

The conference included two Plenary Lectures by Distinguished Professors Jayaram Sethuraman of the Florida State University and Marvin Zelen of Harvard University.  In addition, a number of named lectures (Bahadur, Sukhatme, Basu, Huzurbazar, and Krishnaiah) were given respectively by Evarist Gine, Sanat Sarkar, Glen Meeden, Lee-Jen Wei, and Barry Arnold.  A number of invited sessions, contributed sessions and student paper sessions were also included.  Participants were also entertained by one of the conference organizers, Professor Nitis Mukhopadhyay and his family, at a banquet.

 Professor S. R. S. Varadhan received a Life Time Achievement Award from IISA.  Professor Zelen received this award last year. The Young Researcher Award for Theory and Methodology went to Dr. Anindya Roy of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Dr. Sujit Ghosh of the North Carolina  State University, while the Young Researcher Award for Methodology and Application went to Dr. Sayan Mukherjee of Duke University. The Best Student Paper Presentation Award for Theory and Methodology went to Arnab Maiti of Texas A & M University, while the corresponding Methodology and Application Award went to Tyler H. McCormick of Columbia University.

The International Indian Statistical Association is a non-profit organization with the objectives given at the top. Anyone (does not have to be of Indian origin) who is interested in the objectives of the Association is welcome to become a member.  Thank you!

http://www.stat.osu.edu/~hnn/IISA.html

IISA mailing list contact: Nandini Kannan,  IISA Secretary, Nandini.Kannan@utsa.edu
Web questions:hnn@stat.osu.edu

June 2, 2008