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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The 15th Annual Spring Research Conference (SRC) on Statistics in Industry and Technology will be held May 19-21, 2008. The conference will take place in Atlanta, Georgia. It is hosted by the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The purpose of the Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology is to promote research in statistical methods that address problems in industry and technology. This focus is to be interpreted broadly to cover a wide range of application areas including manufacturing and information sciences. The conference is intended to stimulate interactions among statisticians, researchers in the application areas, and industrial practitioners. It will provide a forum where participants can describe current research, identify important problems and areas of application, and formulate future research directions.
Featured Plenary Speakers for the 2008 Spring Research Conference include:
Peter Bickel
Professor of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
James Glimm
Distinguished Professor
Dept of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
University at Stony Brook
Zhong Lin Wang
Regents' Professor and
Director, Center for Nanostructure Characterization
Georgia Tech