INTERNATIONAL INDIAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

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Constitution	Summer 2008
By-Laws	Spring 2008
Trustees and Executives	Spring 2007
Stat. Depts. in Indian Universities	Autumn 2006
Membership Application	Spring 2006
Statistical Methodology-Official Journal of IISA
Denver JSM Aug 2008 Activities	Next IISA Conf. Jan 4-7, 2010, Visakhapatnam, (Andhra U., Waltair),India (details to follow)

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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!

Denver JSM, Aug 3-7, 2008
Subir Ghosh, IISA President

The Joint Statistical Meetings will be held this year in Denver, Colorado from Sunday, August 3 through Thursday, August 7. Please mark your calendars for the following IISA-related activities. Hope to see you all there!

IISA Mixer
Date: Monday, August 4
Room: HY-Mineral Hall B (Hyatt Regency, Denver)
Time: 5:30-6:30pm

Executive Board Meeting
Monday, August 4, 2008
Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: Hyatt Regency Denver - Agate A

IISA Invited Session

Title: Statistical Challenges in Large Scale Genetic and Genomic Studies(Session #210)
Date: Tuesday August 5
Room: CC607 (Colorado Convention Center)
Time: 8:30-10:20am

Speakers: Brad Efron (Stanford), Charles Kooperberg (Fred Hutchinson), Nilanjan Chatterjee (NIH/NCI), Mike Boenhke (University of Michigan)

Organizer: Bhramar Mukherjee (University of Michigan)

IISA Table

There will be a table at the JSM to inform people about IISA and its activities. We need volunteers to help us at the table on Sunday afternoon and Monday through Wednesday 10-4. Please email Nandini Kannan (nandini.kannan@utsa.edu) with your preferred date(s) and times if you can spend a couple of hours at the table.

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

July 29, 2008