Agenda

• IISA 2022 Conference

  The next conference of the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) will take place on December 26-30, 2022, at the campus of the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore, India. The scientific committee responsible for building the conference program consists of Subhashis Ghoshal (chair), Shailaja Suryawanshi, T. V. Ramanathan (co-chairs), Bhaswati Ganguli, Peihua Qiu, Pierpaolo De Blasi, Bibhas Chakraborty, Kingshuk Roy Choudhury, Abdus Wahed, Kaushik Jana, Moumanti Podder, Arusharka Sen, Vishwanath Iyer, Dootika Vats, Peter Muller, and Aarti Singh. The conference program will consist of four plenary talks, eight special invited talks, three or four panel-discussion sessions, about sixty invited talk sessions, many contributed talk sessions, and a student poster competition. In addition, some short courses on a few important topics of current interest will be offered for an additional fee. The topics that are presently being considered are Statistics with R programming, Precision Medicine, Bayesian Spatial Statistics, Statistical Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Python Programming. The offering of a course depends on its demand and the available resources. The conference is planned to take place in the traditional face-to-face format with the hope that the Covid-19 pandemic will be effectively over, but a provision for a hybrid mode may be available for participants not able to or not willing to travel.

  The R. R. Bahadur Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Soumendranath Lahiri, Washington University, St. Louis. Three other plenary talks will be given by Hao Helen Zhang from the University of Arizona, Igor Prunster from Bocconi University, Milan, and Kalyan Das from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. The eight special invited talks will be presented by Kavita Ramanan (Probability), Bodhisattva Sen, Bas Kleijn, R. V. Ramamoorthi (Mathematical Statistics), Asha Gopalakrishnan, Saonli Basu (Biostatistics), Prateek Jain, Pritam Gupta (Machine Learning and Medical Statistics). A few panel-discussion sessions on hot topics and career advice are presently being planned. These sessions will tremendously benefit especially young researchers looking for directions and guidance. There will be approximately sixty invited sessions on a coherent topic, each consisting of three speakers. Some of these sessions will be organized by a scientific committee member. The rest will be organized by others. A solicitation for submitting an invited session proposal will be sent shortly. In addition, participants may submit a proposal to present a contributed talk or a poster. Students and younger researchers presenting posters are eligible to compete for a prize with a cash award.

  A prize and award ceremony will be followed by a banquet. The conference is expected to be attended by several hundred participants. It will offer opportunities to meet with familiar people as well as with many other researchers from all over the world.

  

  Subhashis Ghoshal

  Professor of Statistics,

  North Carolina State University

  Chair, IISA-2022 Scientific Committee