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Statistical Science in Society

A conference to celebrate the International Year of Statistics and the launch of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute

July 31 - August 2, 2013

In June 2012, the Statistical Society of Canada approved the formation of a separate entity, the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute/Institut canadien des sciences statistiques (CANSSI/INCASS), which will work with the Fields Institute, the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, to promote and sponsor research in the statistical sciences across Canada.  CANSSI was officially launched in November 2012 and the process of identifying directions for research in Canada over the next few years has begun.  The University of Waterloo, with support from the Fields Institute, is hosting a conference to celebrate the International Year of Statistics and the launch of CANSSI.

Scientific Advisory Committee

Hugh Chipman (Acadia), José Garrido (Concordia), Jack Kalbfleisch (University of Michigan), Richard Lockhart (Simon Fraser), Bruno Rémillard (HEC Montréal).

Confirmed Speakers 

Hansjoerg Albrecher
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
David Banks 
Duke University, United States
Yoshua Bengio
Université de Montréal, Canada
Derek Bingham
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Richard Cook 
University of Waterloo, Canada
Claudia Czado
Technische Universit​ät München, Germany
Rob Deardon   
University of Guelph, Canada
Michael Kosorok University of North Carolina, United States
Bala Rajaratnam  
Stanford University, United States
Steven Scott  
Google, United States
Thérèse Stukel
ICES and University of Toronto, Canada
François Théberge
University of Ottawa and Tutte Institute, Canada
Marina Vannucci
Rice University, United States
Ruodu Wang University of Waterloo, Canada
Barry Wellman University of Toronto, Canada
Gordon Willmot University of Waterloo, Canada