Tentative List of Sessions

A. Plenary Sessions -- TBA

B. Panel Discussions

I. Statistics in Industry: Challenges for the 21st Century

II. Statistics in Business and Finance: Research Directions

III. Quality Management Paradigms: Comparisons, Novel Ideas, and Impact

C. Quality Management and Improvement

Applications of Statistics in Industry
   -- Organizer: Richard Jarrett (CSIRO, Australia)

Design of Experiments for Quality and Productivity Improvement
   -- Organizer: Sung Park (Seoul National U, S. Korea)

Integration of Engineering Models with Statistical Methods for Quality and Reliability Improvement
   -- Organizer: Jan Shi (U of Michigan, USA)

Six Sigma I
   -- Organizer: Ronald Does (U of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Six Sigma II
   -- Organizer: Dennis Sinclair (Consultant, Australia)

D. Business/Finance

Learning Optimal Policies for Business Decision Making
   -- Organizers: Susan Murphy and Ji Zhu (U of Michigan, USA)

Statistics in Finance
   -- Organizer: Ross Maller (Australian National U, Australia)

Financial Modeling
   -- Organizer: Rodney Wolff (Queensland Tech U, Australia)

Forecasting and Risk Management
   -- Organizer: Peter Thomson (Stats Research, New Zealand)

Survey Methods and Applications
   -- Organizer: Randy Sitter (Simon Fraser U, Canada)

D. Process Control, Design of Experiments, and Reliability

Developments in SPC
   -- Organizer: Ron Kenett (Consultant, Israel)

Process Control
   -- Organizers: Harriet Black-Nembhart (Penn State, USA) and Fugee Tsung (HKUST, Hong Kong)

Design of Experiments - New Developments and Applications
   -- Organizer: C. S. Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Reliability and Degrdataion Modeling
   -- Organizer: Mikhail Nikulin (U. Bordeaux, France)

Topics in Reliability
   -- Organizer: TBA

E. Emerging Areas and Other Topics

Computer Experiments and Applications
   -- Organizer: Derek Bingham (Simon Fraser U, Canada)
   -- Speakers: Derek Bingham, David Higdon, Shane Reese

Modeling of Internet Traffic Data
   -- Organizer: George Michailidis (U of Michigan, USA)
   -- Speakers: Bill Cleveland, Steve Marron, Matt Roughan

Design and Analysis of Computer and Communications Networks
   -- Organizer: George Michailidis (U of Michigan, USA)
   -- Speakers: Dina Papagiannaki, George Michailidis, and TBA

Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry
   -- Organizer: Chihiro Hirotsu (Meisei U, Japan)

Chemometrics
   -- Organizer: Aloke Phatak (CSIRO, Australia)