2008 Barcelona Conference on Asymptotic Statistics

Scientific scope

Statistics already keeps a central place in the modern Information Society. Many procedures related to data processing require an experiment to be designed, with subsequent retrieving, organising, processing and interpreting information using statistical methods. New fields have been initialised in Statistics in last years, especially due to recent challenges in Biomedicine, Bioinformatics and Life Sciences in general. Since large amounts of information have often to be processed, asymptotic methods in statistics become more and more useful.  

The Barcelona Conference on Asymptotic Statistics 2008 (BAS2008) continues the line opened in 2003 when the first conference took place (you can find the BAS 2003 web page here). The scientific scope of the conference can be summarised in the following main lines: 

• To analyse asymptotic procedures related to time series, that is, to discrete-time stochastic processes. Asymptotic methods are used here in order to select a model, that can be parametric or non-parametric, and to solve a wide range of problems on prediction of the behaviour of a system based on discrete data.
• To discuss asymptotic methods related to continuous-time models. The knowledge of these methods enables us to design an appropriate sampling scheme for different kinds of data.
• The third perspective, feeding the latter ones and fed back by them at the same time, is that of applications of asymptotic methods to practical problems. We would like to focus on multiple applications of asymptotic statistics, ranging from classical (for example, in signal processing) to the most recent ones in Biomedical Sciences.

 Talks 

There will be three main types of presentations at BAS2008: 

• 5 plenary talks delivered by the world-wide recognised experts dealing with cornerstone topics in Asymptotic Statistics.
• 10 invited talks showing the importance of Asymptotic Statistics and discussing a variety of methods and applications.
• Contributed talks by the BAS2008 participants covering the three above mentioned main lines. Presentations made by young researchers from all over the world will be especially encouraged, with the possibility of obtaining a financial support for attending BAS2008.

We ask all prospective participants to send an abstract following the instructions at the Submission of abstracts page. The deadline for abstracts submission is May 1, 2008. 

The BAS2008 Scientific Committee will inform the authors of all submitted abstracts of acceptance of their papers by June 1, 2008.

 Scientific Committee 

Ricardo Cao, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Juan J. Romo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Nakahiro Yoshida, University of Tokyo, Japan

Frederic Utzet, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Vladimir Zaiats, Universitat de Vic, Spain

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