Announcement

The 17^th annual International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA http://www.icsa.org) Applied Statistics Symposium (http://stat.rutgers.edu/icsa2008) will be held on June 4-7th, 2008 , at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Piscataway , New Jersey , USA . All members of the statistics community around the world, who can exchange and explore new scientific research and application techniques, are invited to participate in this exciting and rich symposium organized by the ICSA.  

The symposium program schedule has been posted on the symposium website. The key information is highlighted below:

• Jun 4^th 6 excellent short courses;   
• Jun 5^th - 7^th 54 invited and contributed scientific sessions allocated to 11 time periods; 
• 4 students have won awards and travel grants;    
• Jun 5^th and 6^th: 4 keynote speeches by Dr. Robert O'Neill from the FDA, Prof. David DeMets from University of Wisconsin, Prof. Zhiliang Ying from Columbia University, and Prof. Jianqing Fan from Princeton University.  
• Jun 6^th lunch time: a career development event, hosted by Rutgers University and ICSA, will provide a platform for students and junior statisticians to extend their knowledge on career building and improvement, with face to face meeting with senior statisticians and statistical leaders from academia, government, pharmaceutical and financial industries;  
• Jun 5^th evening: a mixer planned for attendee to meet with new and old friends, and to relax and entertain themselves;   
• Jun 6^th evening: a banquet planned and Dr. Shien Biau Woo from the 80-20 Educational Foundation has been invited as a distinguished banquet speaker.

The organizing committee welcomes you to attend this symposium. Online and paper registrations are available. You may register separately for the short courses and the symposium.  You may pay registration due by credit cards using on-line registration, but we only accept cash for paper or check/cash for on-site registration. We recommend you register before the symposium starts in order to reduce our workload. 

For more information, please contact corresponding organizing committee members or check periodically for new announcements and program details at the symposium website (http://stat.rutgers.edu/icsa2008).  

ICSA 2008 Symposium Organizing Committee