18th Nordic Conference on Mathematical Statistics, June 5 - 8, 2000, Grimstad, Norway

Nordic statistical meetings started in the mid 1960s. Traditionally, these meetings have been a place for statisticians from the Nordic countries to meet and to make new friends and contacts. Rather than being an arena for the specialists, the Nordic meetings have provided opportunities for participants to gain some familiarity with new developments and important challenges in statistics. Through the parallel theme sessions, the meetings have also provided opportunities for participants to present own contributions and to listen to talks on work in progress in their own area of interest.

Programme: (people with their names in bold face have accepted the invitation)
The meeting is planned to have two main themes with invited speakers and discussants, a series of 5 invited talks, and 12 parallel theme sessions organised by convenors named below. Invited lectures will be accessible to a broad audience of statisticians.

Main themes:

• Large structured models in applied sciences: challenges for statistics

  • Statistical issues in macroeconomic modelling, Eilev S. Jansen, Bank of Norway. Discussant: Søren Johansen.
  • Statistical issues in weather forecasting, Nils Gustafsson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Discussant: Gudmund Høst.
  • Statistical issues in fish stock assessments, Stratis Gavaris, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. Discussant: Elja Arjas.
  • Common statistical threads in complex modelling across applied fields - Reflections upon contributions from Jansen, Gustafsson and Gavaris, Anthony Davison, Lausanne
  • Closing panel discussion, S. Johansen, E. Arjas, T. Schweder.

• Complex interactions and dependencies

  • Title to be decided, double lecture, Murad S. Taqqu, Boston University
  • Percolation, Markov random fields, and phase transitions, single lecture, Olle Häggström, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg

• Specially invited lectures

  • Stochastic geometry, Aila Särkkä, Gothenburg
  • Statistics for extremes, Holger Rootzen, Gothenburg
  • Frequentist priors and posteriors, Nils Lid Hjort, Oslo
  • Statistics for infectious diseases Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Rome and Stockholm.
  • Statistical genetics and genetical statistics, Thore Egeland, Oslo

Theme	Convenor
Control, analysis and optimization in industry	Currently undecided
Dynamic event history analysis	Thomas Scheike, Copenhagen. T.Scheike@biostat.ku.dk
Forestry and ecology	Juha Alho, Joensuu. Juha.Alho@Joensuu.Fi
Learning and graphical models	Jens Henrik Badsberg, Copenhagen. JensHenrik.Badsberg@agrsci.dk
Mathematical statistics in finance and insurance	Anders Rahbek, Copenhagen. rahbek@stat.ku.dk
Monte Carlo methods in statistics	Håkon Tjelmeland, Trondheim. haakont@math.ntnu.no
Non-parametric curve fitting	Ole Christian Lingjærde, Oslo. o.c.lingjarde@bio.uio.no
Random processes	Lars Holst, Stockholm. lholst@math.kth.se
Space and space-time modelling and inference	Rasmus Waagepetersen, Copenhagen, Rasmus.Waagepetersen@agrsci.dk
Statistics in genetics	Juni Palmgren, Stockholm. juni@matematik.su.se
Survival analysis: alternatives to Cox regression	Odd Aalen, Oslo. o.o.aalen@basalmed.uio.no
Teaching statistics at the elementary level	Jostein Lillestøl, Bergen. jostein.lillestol@nhh.no

Conference venue: The venue of the conference will be Sørlandet Hotell og kurssenter, which is located in walking distance from the centre of Grimstad, a small town at the southern coast of Norway. Grimstad is easily reached by bus or train from Oslo or by bus from Kristiandsand. The nearest airports are Kjevik (Kristiansand) and Torp (Sandefjord). There is a bus connection from Kjevik directly to the conference centre.

Accomodation: Primarily at the Conference centre.

Call for papers: Participants are invited to present contributed papers (see theme sessions in programme).

Social events: The social program will include a boat trip in the beautiful coastal surroundings of Grimstad. The conference dinner will take place at the conference centre.

Organizer and organizing committee:

• Norwegian Statistical Association, Geir Storvik, University of Oslo (chair) geirs@math.uio.no,
• Trygve Almøy, Agricultural University of Norway trygve.almoy@imf.nlh.no,
  
• Grete U. Fenstad, University of Oslo grete@math.uio.no,
  
• Ola Haug, Norwegian Computing Center ola.haug@nr.no,
  
• Inge Helland, University of Oslo ingeh@math.uio.no

Programme committee:

• Tore Schweder, University of Oslo (chair) (tore.schweder@econ.uio.no),
  
• Arnoldo Frigessi, Norwegian Computing Center (Arnoldo.Frigessi@nr.no),
  
• Jostein Paulsen, University of Bergen (Jostein.Paulsen@mi.uib.no),
  
• Håvard Rue, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (hrue@stat.ntnu.no),
  
• Eva Skovlund, University of Oslo (eva.skovlund@basalmed.uio.no),
  
• Geir Storvik, University of Oslo (geirs@math.uio.no),
  
• Elinor Ytterstad, University of Tromsø (elinor@stat.uit.no)

Address: NORDSTAT 2000, Mathematical Institute, P.O.Box 1053, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway , Email: (nordstat@math.uio.no), WWW: http://www.math.uio.no/~nordstat/

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