Barry C. Arnold

Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of California, USA

Talk: Bivariate and multivariate models involving independent gamma distributed components

N. Balakrishnan

Distinguished Professor

McMaster University, Canada

Kartlos Kachiashvili

Professor, Georgian Technical University, Georgia

Talk: Constrained Bayesian Methods for Testing Different Types of Hypotheses

Hira L. Koul

Professor

Michigan State University, USA

Talk: Weighted empirical minimum distance estimators in linear errors-in-variables regression models

Anna Panorska

Professor

University of Nevada, USA

Talk: The Greenwood statistic, stochastic dominance, clustering and heavy tails

Andreas N. Philippou

Professor Emeritus

University of Patras Greece

(Former Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus)

Talk: Failures of Some Polls and the Reasons Why

Ashis SenGupta

Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

Talk: Statistical Machine Learning for Big Manifold Data

Ron Wasserstein

Executive Director

American Statistical Association, USA

Talk: Moving to a World Beyond p<0.05