Novel statistical methodology and its application in marine ecology and fisheries research
Organisers: Mihoko Minami (Keio University, Japan), Cleridy E. Lennert-Cody (Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, USA)
Speakers: Simon N Wood (University of Bath, UK), Toshihide Kitakado (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan), Mark Bravington (CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Marine Laboratories, Australia), Hans J Skaug (University of Bergen, Norway)
The landmark approach to event history analysis
Organiser: Hans C. van Houwelingen (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
Speakers: Hein Putter (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands), Layla Parast (Harvard School of Public Health, USA)
, Per Kragh Andersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Jon Michael Gran (University of Oslo, Norway)
Statistical challenges in the analysis of rare genetic variants in association studies
Organisers: Taesung Park (Seoul National University, Korea), Gang Zheng (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute/NIH, USA)
Speakers: Suzanne Leal (Baylor College of Medicine, USA), Andreas Ziegler (Universitt zu Lübeck, Germany), Sungho Won (Chung-Ang University, Korea), Ryo Yamada (Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Advances in spatial latent variable modeling, with applications to bio-sciences
Organiser: Dipankar Bandyopadhyay (Medical University of South Carolina, USA)
Speakers: Andrew Lawson (Medical University of South Carolina, USA), Yeonseung Chung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea), Sudipto Banerjee (University of Minnesota, USA), Rasmus Waagepetersen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
New developments in statistical ecology
Organiser: Byron JT Morgan (University of Kent, UK)
Speakers: Simon Bonner (University of Kentucky, USA), Janine Illian (University of St Andrews, Scotland), Martin Ridout (University of Kent, UK), Rachel Fewster (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) and likelihood-free inference
Organiser: Tony Pettitt (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Speakers: Scott Sisson (The University of New South Wales, Australia), Mark Beaumont (University of Bristol, UK), Tina Toni (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Daniel Wegmann (University of California, USA)
Design and analysis of clinical trials for predictive medicine: new paradigm and challenges
Organisers: Shigeyuki Matsui (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan), Marc Buyse (International Institute for Drug Development, Belgium)
Speakers: Richard Simon (National Cancer Institute, USA), Shigeyuki Matsui (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan), William Barlow (Cancer Research and Biostatistics, USA), Stefan Michiels (Institut Jules Bordet, Belgium)
HER databases and long term observational studies in the study of quality of care assessment and risk factors for outcomes – Bayesian and Frequentist methods and limitations on inference
Organisers: Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University, Belgium), Jonas H. Ellenberg (University of Pennsylvania, Perelmen School of Medicine, USA)
Speakers: Thomas A. Louis (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA), Therese A. Stukel (Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Canada), Els Goetghebeur (Ghent University, Belgium), Sharon-Lise T. Normand (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Data visualization: optimization and applications
Organiser: Ross Darnell (CSIRO Mathematics, Australia)
Speakers: Antony Unwin (Universität Augsburg, Germany), Natsuhiko Kumasaka (Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Japan), Ritei Shibata (Keio University, Japan), Michael Lawrence (Genentech, USA)
Novel mixture modelling and likelihood methods in modern biomedical applications
Organiser: Shili Lin (The Ohio State University, USA)
Speakers: Geoff McLachlan (University of Queensland, Australia), Zewei Luo (Fudan University, China), Abbas Khalili (McGill University, Canada), Jian Qing Shi (Newcastle University, UK)
Exposure reconstruction and exposure uncertainty in epidemiological studies of radiation health effects
Organiser: Harry M. Cullings (Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Japan)
Speakers: Dan Stram (University of Southern California, USA), C. Y. Wang (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, USA), Kazutaka Doi (National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan), Harry Cullings (Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Japan)
Statistical methods for reducing batch effects, summarization and gene filtering in high-throughput genomic data
Organisers: Lieven Clement (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,Belgium), Ziv Shkedy (Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium)
Speakers: Jeff Leek (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Matthew N. McCall (University of Rochester, USA), Djork-Arné Clevert and Sepp Hochreiter (Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria), Adetayo Kasim (Durham University, UK), Willem Talloen (Janssen Phamacutical, Beerse, Belgium)
International collaborations and networking of the biometricians to develop statistical methodologies and to solve global statistical issues
Organisers: Toshihiko Morikawa (Osaka, Japan), Geert Molenberghs (Hasselt University, Belguim)
Speakers: Miodrag Lovric (University of Kragujevac, Serbia), Geert Molenberghs (Hasselt University, Belgium), Shigeyuki Matsui (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan), Scott Evans (Harvard University, USA)
Statistical methods for analyzing neurophysiological signals
Organisers: Mark Fiecas (Brown University, USA), Sati Mazumdar (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Speakers: John Aston (University of Warwick, UK), Giovanni Motta (Maastricht University, The Netherlands), Mark Fiecas (Brown University, USA), Mohammad Hasan Machfoed (Airlangga University School of Medicine, Indonesia), Wesley Thompson (University of California at San Diego, USA)
In addition to this invited scientific program, there will be a number of special sessions arranged by the society, including showcase sessions for each of our journals, Biometrics and JABES, the Young Statisticians Showcase and a Satellite Meeting (Saturday, September 1) organized by Japanese Region.