ICORS 2010 Conference, June 28 – July 2, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic

The conference ICORS 2010 (International Conference on Robust Statistics) aims to be a forum for the developments, applications and purpose of robust statistical methods, and their interactions to other fields of statistics, and to science in general. It is an opportunity to meet, exchange knowledge, and build scientific contacts for all people interested in the subject.

The conference takes place under the auspices of Rector of University of Economics, Prague, Professor Richard Hindls.

Previous ICORS meetings were held in Vorau (2001), Vancouver (2002), Antwerp (2003), Beijing (2004), Jyväskylä (2005), Lisbon (2006), Buenos Aires (2007), Antalya (2008) and Parma (2009).

Conference flyer: PDF(550kB)

Keynote speakers:

Rudolf Beran, Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of California, Davis, http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/~beran/beran.html

Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, http://galton.uchicago.edu/faculty/stigler.html

Grace Wahba, IJ Schoenberg-Hilldale Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~wahba/

Plenary talks and sessions: programme

Invited sessions:

Frank Critchley (Open University): Robustness and Geometry
Christophe Croux (K.U. Leuven): Robustness in Econometrics and Business Statistics
Peter Filzmoser (Vienna University of Technology): Computational Issues in Robustness
Christine H. Müller (University of Dortmund): Data Depth and Robust Functional Analysis 		                    Elvezio Ronchetti (University of Geneva): Small Sample Asymptotics and Robustness
David E. Tyler (The State University of New Jersey): Robust Multivariate Statistics
Victor J. Yohai (Universidad de Buenos Aires): Robust Estimation with Missing Data

Conference venue:

University of Economics, Prague
4, Winston Churchill square
CZ-130 67 Prague 3
Czech Republic
http://www.vse.cz

                     Important dates:

Registration opens: January 1, 2010
Deadline for abstracts: March 31, 2010
Acceptance of abstracts for presentation: April 20, 2010
Early registration: April 30, 2010

Steering committee of ICORS conferences:

Peter Rousseeuw – chairman (Belgium), Claudio Agostinelli (Italy), Olcay Arslan (Turkey), Ana Bianco (Argentina), Graciela Boente (Argentina), Frank Critchley (UK), Christophe Croux (Belgium), Juan Cuesta Albertos (Spain) Laurie Davies (Germany), Rudolf Dutter (Austria), Luisa Fernholz (USA), Chris Field (Canada), Peter Filzmoser (Austria), Ursula Gather (Germany), Alfonso Gordaliza (Spain), Marc Hallin (Belgium), Xuming He (USA), Mia Hubert (Belgium), Jana Jurečková (Czech Republic), Ricardo Maronna (Argentina), Carlos Matran (Spain), Stephan Morgenthaler (Switzerland), Hannu Oja (Finland), Daniel Peña (Spain), Ana Pires (Portugal), Marco Riani (Italy), Isabel Rodrigues (Portugal), Elvezio Ronchetti (Switzerland), David E. Tyler (USA), Stefan Van Aelst (Belgium), Roy Welsch (USA), Victor Yohai (Argentina), Ruben Zamar (Canada).