International Conference on Wavelets and Statistics: Watering the Seed

[Theofanis Sapatinas <T.Sapatinas@ucy.ac.cy>]

International Conference on 

     Wavelets and Statistics: Watering the Seed 
(Theory and Applications)
 
Villard de Lans, Grenoble, France, September 4-7, 2003


WEB SITE:
http://www-lmc.imag.fr/grenoblet2003
 
Deadline for Registration:  June 30th, 2003 

Conference Announcement: 

1 - Topics 
2 - Invited Speakers 
3 - Scientific Committee 
4 - Call for Papers and Proceedings 
5 - Accommodation 
6 - Registration 
7 - Organizing Committee 
8 - Previous Conferences 
9 - Sponsoring Societies 

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1 - TOPICS 
Ten years ago, in Grenoble 1994, wavelets were quite an unknown
attractive new tool for statisticians. Ten years later, in Grenoble 2003,
wavelets 
are essentially well-known and widely used, we know more or less when
they can be effective and when probably not, so the intention of this
meeting is to summarize things and make us think about other new exciting
directions. This meeting will bring together researchers or
practitioners, analysts or statisticians, to present an up-to-date review
of the current state-of-the-art, to assess the relative advantages and
limitations of wavelets for various statistical applications and to
identify trends for future development.

The meeting will focus on various aspects of wavelets and their
applications in various statistical, signal processing and image analysis
contexts,
including

·       

Approximation
Theory and Wavelets

·       

Nonparametric
Regression and Classification

·       

Compression
and De-noising of Images

·       

Wavelets
and Point Processes

·       

Wavelet
Applications to Survival and Reliability Analysis

·       

Contour
Detection and Segmentation

·       

Multiresolution
Analysis and Markov chains

·       

Hypothesis
Testing

·       

Inverse
Problems and Regularization

·       

Signal
processing; Independent Component Analysis

·       

Nonstationary
Time series Analysis

·       

Bayesian
Methods

·       

Change-Point
Processes

·       

ANOVA
   
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2  KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Albert Cohen (France) 
      David Donoho (USA)
      Iain Johnstone (USA)
      Stephane Mallat
(France),      
      Bernard Silverman (United Kingdom)

3 SPECIAL INVITED SPEAKERS

Richard Baraniuk (USA)
Jianqing Fan (USA)
Patrick Flandrin (France)
Ed George (USA)
Pierre Moulin (USA)
Guy Nason (United Kingdom)
Prakash Patil (United Kingdom)
Dominique Picard (France)
Rainer Von Sachs (Belgium)
Naoki Saito (USA)
Vladimir Spokoiny (Germany)
Andrew Walden (United Kingdom)
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4 - The SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE 

In order to present the current state-of-the-art on wavelets and their
applications, then organizing committee has asked the members of the
scientific committee to present as well a keynote or an invited talk at
this meeting.

Bernard Silverman (President, UK), Albert Cohen (France), David Donoho
(USA), Jianqing Fan (USA), Iain Johnstone (USA), 
Stephane Mallat (France), Prakash Patil (UK), Dominique Picard (France),
Rainer Von Sachs (Belgium).

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5 - CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS 

Given the short time of the meeting and the fact that no parallel
sessions will be scheduled, and the emphasis on the invited seminars,
there will be no more than 18 contributed talks and no more than 20
poster presentations (at most 8 A4 pages).

DEADLINE for Abstracts and Poster submissions: April 30th, 2003.

Abstracts of Contributed Talks and Poster Presentations should be
sent electronically or via the web pages (to any member of the organizing
committee) as a TEX file or PDF text file. They will be reviewed, and
acceptance or rejection will be notified on June
10th 2003.

Selected papers related to the talks and poster presentations at this
meeting will be refereed and published as a special issue in ESAIM:
Probability and Statistics.

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6 - ACCOMODATION 

The Conference will take place in the Mairie Hall of Villard, located in
Villard de Lans, in the heart of the Vercors, near Grenoble
(France).

Please complete the accommodation form (go to the web site to download
it) and fax it directly to the Statistics Department of the Laboratoire
IMAG-LMC, Ondelettes et Statistiques 2003, University of Joseph
Fourier,  BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 09, France
Fax N°: +33 4 76635987 by June 15th, 2003. 

Please note that after this date all reservations requested with the
special rate will be subject of availability. 

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7 - REGISTRATION 
Please go to the web site

http://www-lmc.imag.fr/grenoblet2003

Fees payment: They are requested with your registration. 

An e-mail confirmation will be mailed to you within 20-25 working days. 

If you do not receive it, please contact the Organizing Committee.
Your printed receipt will be will be given on-site. To ensure that your registration is processed correctly, please fill in the registration form as accurately as possible. Registrations received without payment will not be processed. 

Do not forget to register before June 30th, 2003 to have the special rate. 

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8 - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 

Anestis Antoniadis (Chairman), Laboratoire IMAG  LMC, Universite Joseph Fourier,
51, Rue des Mathematiques, B.P. 53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 09, FRANCE.

Tel: +33 476514306
Fax: +33 476514306
Emal: anestis.antoniadis@imag.fr

Felix Abramovich, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, School of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Tel Aviv, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

Tel: +972 36405389
Fax: +972 36409357
Emal: felix@math.tau.ac.il

Umberto Amato, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo 'M. Picone', Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Sezione di Napoli, 
Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, ITALY.

Tel: +390816132377
Fax: +390816132577
Emal: u.amata@iam.na.cnr.it

Theofanis Sapatinas,  Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus,
P.O. Box 20537, CY 1678 Nicosia,  Cyprus. 

Tel: +357 22892653
Fax: +357 22892601
Emal: T.Sapatinas@ucy.ac.cy

Brani Vidakovic, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. 

Tel:  +1 404 8943935

    

Fax: +1 404 8942301
Email: brani@isye.gatech.edu

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9 - IN COOPERATION WITH: 

MAS-SMAI (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, France) 
MNERT (Ministère de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche, France) 
CNRS (Delgation Rhones-Alpes, France)

   

UJF (University of Joseph Fourier, France)
DGA (French Army, France)
INRIA (France)
IMAG (France)
CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
RSS (Royal Statistical Society, United Kingdom)
UCY (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
CPS^2 (Bernoulli Society, USA)
GIT (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA)
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We look forward to meeting you in Villard de Lans in 2003, 

          The ORGANIZING COMMITTEE.