Plenary Sessions

• Presidential Invited Address: Official statistics, public confidence and lessons from the story of the 2011 Canadian Census - Ivan Fellegi, Chief Statistician of Canada Emeritus
• Gold Medal Address: Looking for directions: from directional statistics to the analysis of object data - Louis-Paul Rivest, Université Laval

Statutory Invited Paper Sessions

• SSC Impact Award Address: An Overview of Environmetrics Research - Abdel El-Shaarawi, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada and McMaster University
• CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics Address, Canadian Journal of Statistics Address and Pierre Robillard Award Address - To be determined

Introductory Overview Lectures

• Why a Bayesian Be? - Andrew Willan, University of Toronto
• Approaches to Pathway Modeling in Genetic Epidemiology – Duncan Thomas, University of Southern California

Invited Paper Sessions Organized by SSC Sections and Committees

• Methods for Human and Animal Surveillance (Biostatistics Section)
  • Bernard Choi, Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Dirk Pfeiffer, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK
  • Crawford Revie, Atlantic Veterinary College, PEI
• Imperfect Administrative Health Data: Can we do better? (Biostatistics Section)
  • Yulei He, Harvard University
  • Martin Ladouceur, McGill University
  • Khokan Sikdar, Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information
• Measuring Water Quality (Biostatistics Section)
  • Pierre Gosselin, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, INRS-ETE and CHUQ
  • Sylvia Esterby, University of British Columbia Okanagan
  • William Ross, Health Canada
• Funding opportunities from MITACS (Biostatistics Section)
  • Ian Baird, Director, Business Development, MITACS Atlantic Region
• Panel discussion: Consultations for Statistical Consultants: Lessons Learned from the Field (Biostatistics Section and Accreditation Committee)
  • Depeng Jiang, University of Manitoba, Chair
  • Panelist: John Amrhein, McDougall Scientific
  • Panelist: Lehana Thabane, McMaster University
  • Panelist: Tim Ramsay, University of Ottawa
• On the Issues Raised by Environmental Surveys at Statistics Canada (Survey Methods Section)
  • John Marshall, Statistics Canada
  • Martin Hamel, Statistics Canada
  • Claude Girard, Statistics Canada
• Psychographic Surveys And Behavioural Surveys - Can Information From One Be Used To Accurately Predict Characteristics Of The Other? (Survey Methods Section)
  • John S. Lyons, University of Ottawa
  • Jane E. Ledingham, University of Ottawa
  • David W. Jamieson, Environics Research Group, David Stewart,
    IMS Brogan, Delbert E. Stewart, IMS Brogan
• Sampling and Biometry (Survey Methods Section)
  • Stephen Smith, Bedford Institute
  • Noel Cadigan, Department of Fishery and Oceans, St-John’s
  • Simon J Bonner, University of Kentucky
• Stochastic Analysis (Probability Section)
  • Cody Hyndman, Concordia University
  • Wei Sun, Concordia University
  • Shui Feng, McMaster University
• Recent Advances in MCMC (Probability Section)
  • Galin Jones, University of Minnesota
  • David Stephens, McGill University
  • Dawn Woodard, Cornell University
• Financial Time Series (Probability Section)
  • Philippe Soulier, Université Paris X
  • Clifford Hurvich, New York University
  • Zhou Zhou, University of Toronto
• Randomness in Discrete Mathematics and Biology (Probability Section)
  • Ori Gurel-Gurevich, University of British Columbia
  • Richard Liang, University of British Columbia
  • Xiaowen Zhou, Concordia University
• Isobel Loutit Invited Address: “BIG Statistics” (Business and Industrial Statistics Section)
  • Dennis KJ Lin, Pennsylvania State University
• Statistical Problems arising in the Lumber Industry (Business and Industrial Statistics Section)
  • Conroy Lum, FPInnovations, Vancouver, BC
  • Jun Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Jiguo Cao, Simon Fraser University
• Recent Advances in Multivariate Control Charts (Business and Industrial Statistics Section)
  • Roman Viveros-Aguilera, McMaster University
  • Asokan Variyath, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Shoja'eddin Chenouri, University of Waterloo
• Statistical Consulting: Communication, Interpersonal, Project Management Skills Required (Business and Industrial Statistics Section)
  • Lorne Rothman, SAS Institute Canada Inc.
  • Fernando Camacho, Damos Inc.
  • Rhonda Rosychuk, University of Alberta
• Developing Teaching Skills in Graduate Students (Education Committee)
  • Bethany White, University of Western Ontario
  • Alison Gibbs, University of Toronto
  • Joe Blitzstein, Harvard University
• Panel on Online Teaching of Statistics (Education Committee)
  • Bethany White, University of Western Ontario, Session Facilitator 
  • Panelist: Mohamed Abdolell, Dalhousie University
  • Panelist: Joel Dubin, University of Waterloo
  • Panelist: Alison Weir, University of Toronto at Mississauga
• Statistical Issues in Longitudinal Data Analysis (Caucus for Women in Statistics)
  • Cecilia Cotton, University of Waterloo
  • Juli Atherton, McGill University
  • Yang Zhao, University of Regina

Invited Sessions

• Sampling Theory and Practice: In Honour of Mary Thompson’s Retirement
  • JNK Rao, Carleton University
  • David Binder, Retired (Statistics Canada)
  • Danny Pfeffermann, University of Southhampton, UK
• Statistics Literacy
  • Robert Rodriguez, ASA President-elect
  • Mary Townsend, Statistics Canada
  • Neville Davies, Director of Statistics Education Program, Royal Statistical Society
• Advances in Fisherian alternatives to conventional inference
  • Ao Yuan, Howard University
  • Alan Polansky, Northern Illinois University
  • Jeffrey Blume, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• New developments in mixture models & their applications
  • Geoff McLachlan, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Jiahua Chen, University of British Columbia
  • Paul McNicholas, University of Guelph
• Recent developments in shrinkage estimation with related implications for predictive density estimation, loss estimation and model selection
  • Bill Strawderman, Rutgers University
  • Dominique Fourdrinier, Université de Rouen
  • Andrew L Rukhin, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Recent developments in multiple comparison procedures
  • Jason Hsu, Ohio State University
  • Wei Lu, University of Southhampton, UK
  • Wenge Guo, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Designs for generalized linear models
  • Abhyuday Mandal, University of Georgia
  • Karabi Nandy, University of California at Los Angeles
  • John Stufken, University of Georgia
  • Dave Woods, University of Southhampton, UK
• Robust designs of statistical experiments
  • Julie Zhou, University of Victoria
  • Sanjoy Sinha, Carleton University
  • Doug Wiens, University of Alberta
• Sequential designs for computer experiments
  • Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University
  • Jason Loeppky, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
  • Robert B Gramacy, University of Chicago
• Order statistics and related inference, ranked set sampling and censoring methodology
  • Mohammad Jafari Jozani, University of Manitoba
  • Katherine Davies, University of Manitoba
  • Barry Arnold, University of California at Riverside
• Rank set sampling: new developments and applications
  • Abdulkadir Hussein, University of Windsor
  • S. Ejaz Ahmed, University of Windsor
• Ecological sampling
  • Alan Welsh, Australia National University
  • Joanna Mills Fleming, Dalhousie University
  • Discussant: Rick Routledge, Simon Fraser University
• Statistics in sports
  • Bill Hurley, Royal Military College
  • Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University
  • Paramjit Gill, University of British Columbia Okanagan
• New developments in (disease and) syndromic surveillance
  • Gauri Datta, University of Georgia
  • Rong Wei, CDC, USA
  • Andrew Lawson, Medical University of South Carolina
• Gene-environment effects in pharmacogenetic and related settings
  • Brooke Fridley, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
  • Josée Dupuis, Boston University School of Public Health
  • Fei Zou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Future of functional data analysis
  • Sofia Mosesova, Genetech
  • Jason D Nielson, Carleton University
  • Fang Yao, University of Toronto
• Nonparametric function estimation
  • Jean-Francois Angers, Université de Montréal
  • John Braun, University of Western Ontario
  • Éric Marchand, Université Sherbrooke
• Random effects modelling for spatial data
  • Cindy Feng, Simon Fraser University
  • Renjun Ma, University of New Brunswick
  • Gary Sneddon, Mount St Vincent University
• Recent advances in the analysis of correlated data
  • Richard Cook, University of Waterloo
  • Maria Lorenzi, BC Cancer Centre
  • Guohua Yan, University of New Brunswick
• Long-Range Planning Exercise in Mathematics and Statistics
  • Organiser: Nancy Reid, University of Toronto