Statistical aspects of important, real problems that arise in industry and technology provide exciting research, consulting, and career opportunities. This conference was created five years ago to focus on these opportunities and I hope that faculty and students at your institution will consider attending this year. Conference information is attached below. Also, I want to bring particular attention to our efforts to promote student participation in the conference by a discounted registration fee and by student scholarships for selected students who present contributed papers. Full details are available at the conference website.
Time is short for contributing papers, which is one reason for the e-mailing.
If you would, please distribute this mailing to faculty and students at your institution. Thank you for your consideration. The program includes a keynote presentation by George E. P. Box, four additional plenary presentations, invited papers on a wide variety of statistical topics in industry and technology, and contributed paper sessions. The deadline for contributed papers is February 1, 1998. Please use the IMS abstract template for submitting abstracts.