Spring Research Conference

The IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference (SRC) is an annual conference sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES)[1] and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).[2] The goal of the SRC is to promote cross-disciplinary statistical research in engineering, science and technology. The topics broadly cover a wide range of research areas including design and analysis of experiments, uncertainty quantification, computer experiment, machine learning, quality control, reliability modeling, and statistical computing, with the applications in business, industry, environment, information technology and advanced manufacturing. The SRC also regularly has invited sessions organized by editors of the top journals including Technometrics,[3] Journal of Quality Technology,[4][5] and SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification.[6] The SRC has the tradition to support students and postdocs with scholarships to selected participants who present contributed talks or posters at the conference.

About every three or four years, the Spring Research Conference (SRC) and the Quality and Productivity Research Conference (QPRC) have a joint conference together as the Joint Research Conference (JRC).[7] The QPRC is an annual conference sponsored by the American Statistical Association's Section on Quality and Productivity.[8]

History

The SRC was the brainchild of Jeff Wu and Vijay Nair. Its precursor was the 1992 IMS Regional Meeting-Special Topics in Industrial Statistics in Philadelphia, which was initiated by Jeff Wu and program co-chaired by Vijay Nair and Jeff Wu. The inaugural conference was held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in June, 1994, with Dr. Rob Easterling as the program chair and Dr. Jerry Sacks as the local organizer. The long-term welfare of the conference is handled by a conference management committee. The members of the first conference management committee were Drs. Vijay Nair (Chair), Jon Kettenring, Jerry Lawless, Jeff Robinson, Daryl Pregibon, and Jeff Wu. The conference completed its 25th anniversary in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2018.[9]

Meetings During Pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the SRC 2020 was cancelled, which was originally planned to be hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan from May 20-22, 2020.[10] The SRC 2021 was cancelled again due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The SRC 2022 was organized as a virtual meeting on May 19-20, 2022. In 2023, the SRC has been back to the in-person meeting, taking place at Banff Center on May 24-26, 2023.

Future Meetings

The SRC 2025 will be hosted by Department of Information Systems and Statistics at Baruch College, City University of New York on June 3-5, 2025. The SRC 2026 will be hosted by School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University.

Past Conferences

Dates Location Host Website
June 17–20, 2024 Waterloo, Ontario University of Waterloo JRC 2024
May 24–26, 2023 Banff, Alberta Banff Centre SRC 2023
May 19–20, 2022 Virtual Virtual SRC 2022
May 22–24, 2019 Blacksburg, Virginia Virginia Tech SRC 2019
June 11–14, 2018 Santa Fe, New Mexico Los Alamos National Laboratory JRC 2018
May 17–19, 2017 New Brunswick, New Jersey Rutgers University SRC 2017
May 25–27, 2016 Chicago, Illinois Illinois Institute of Technology SRC 2016
May 20–22, 2015 Cincinnati, Ohio Procter & Gamble Company SRC 2015
June 24–26, 2014 Seattle, Washington University of Washington JRC 2014
June 20–22, 2013 Los Angeles, California University of California-Los Angeles SRC 2013
June 13–15, 2012 Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University SRC 2012
June 22–24, 2011 Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University SRC 2011
May 25–27, 2010 Gaithersburg, Maryland National Institute of Standards and Technology JRC 2010
May 27–29, 2009 Vancouver, Canada Simon Fraser University SRC 2009
May 19–21, 2008 Atlanta, Georgia Georgia Institute of Technology SRC 2008
May 21–23, 2007 Ames, Iowa Iowa State University [SRC 2007]
June 7–9, 2006 Knoxville, Tennessee University of Tennessee-Knoxville JRC 2006
June 1–3, 2005 Park City, Utah University of Utah [SRC 2005]
May 19–21, 2004 Gaithersburg, Maryland National Institute of Standards and Technology [SRC 2004]

References

  1. ^ "ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  2. ^ "IMS Representatives with Other Organizations". Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
  3. ^ "Technometrics". Taylor & Francis Group.
  4. ^ "Journal of Quality Technology". American Society for Quality.
  5. ^ "Magazines and Journals". ASQ. March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  6. ^ "SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
  7. ^ "The Joint Research Conference 2014". University of Washington.
  8. ^ "ASA Quality and Productivity Section". American Statistical Association.
  9. ^ "2018 Joint Research Conference". ASA Colorado-Wyoming Chapter. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  10. ^ "2020 Spring Research Conference". Oakland University. Retrieved 25 February 2021.