Principal Lecturer: Yimin Xiao, MSU Foundation Professor Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University August 03-07, 2020, University of Alabama in Huntsville Due to the current covid-19 situation and future uncertainty, based on the guideline from NSF and CBMS, we decided to postpone our conference to August 2-6, 2021. Sorry for any inconvenience it may cause. Conference Organizers Toka Diagana, University of Alabama in Huntsville Erkan Nane, Auburn University Dongsheng Wu, University of Alabama in Huntsville Conference E-Mail Address Please contact us at uahcbms2020@gmail.com if you have questions or need additional information. Confirmed Invited Speakers Xia Chen, Mathematics, University of Tennessee Yaozhong Hu, Math and Stat Sciences, University of Alberta Davar Khoshnevisan, Mathematics, University of Utah Carl Mueller, Mathematics, University of Rochester Vladas Pipiras, Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Conference Information All talks will be held in the Shelby Center for Science and Technology on the UAH campus. Principal Lecturer Overview of the Lectures Registration Form Conference Flyer Tentative Schedule Participants Notes on Logistics Local Information Campus Maps Accommodations Restaurants About Huntsville Principal Lecturer Principal lecturer Professor Yimin Xiao is an MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University. He got his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1996. After taking post-doctoral positions at the University of Utah and Microsoft, he became an assistant professor at Michigan State University in 2000 and moved through the ranks to Full Professor in 2005. He has been named MSU Foundation Professor at Michigan State University since July 2018. In 2011 he was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of MathematicalStatistics (IMS). His research has been continuously supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) since 1998, and he has served as a panelist for NSF and as a reviewer for proposals from ARO, NSA, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Professor Xiao is also actively engaged in other national and international professional activities.He has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief for Statistics and Probability Letters since 2011, and as aManaging Editor for Journal of Fractal Geometry since 2013, and as an editorial board memberfor Illinois Journal of Mathematics and Science China Mathematics. He has served as anorganizer for invited paper or special sessions at numerous international and national conferences. In particular, as a PI (with co-PI V. Mandrekar), he organized an NSF/CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences entitled "Analysis of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations" at Michigan State University, August 19-23, 2013. Professor Xiao has delivered numerous talks at major international conferences, and taught short graduate courses related to his research at universities in Marburg (Germany, 2005), Wuhan (China, 2009), Braunschweig (Germany, 2010), Guangzhou (China, 2012, 2015), University of Science and Technology (China, 2014), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China, 2015), Northwestern University (U.S.A., 2016), and L'Universite de Lille (France, 2018). The formats of those short courses he delivered were quite similar to the series of lectures that he will present here. Most of all, Professor Xiao is widely known as a lecturer who conveys an unbounded and infectious enthusiasm for his subject of study. Tentative Schedule Forthcoming... Participants Forthcoming... Notes on Logistics Forthcoming... Accommodations Warning: We do not authorize any travel agency to take care of accommodations for the conference. Please book your room by the corresponding cutoff dates. Thank you. Charger Village Residence Hall John Wright DriveLocated on the UAH campus, adjacent to the Shelby Center256.824.3200 We have reserved a block of rooms at Charger Village Residence Hall at a rate of $25 per night for a single room with linens (with shared bathroom) or at a rate of $45 per night for a two bedroom suite with linens (with private bathroom). The cutoff date for reservation is June 30, 2020. Please email uahcbms2020@gmail.com to make your reservation. Drury Inn & Suites Huntsville at Space & Rocket Center 93 Wynn Drive NW, Huntsville, Alabama 35805 Located 0.9 miles from UAH campus 256.430.9888, 800.325.0720 We have reserved a block of rooms (Non-smoking 1 King Bed Deluxe) at Drury Inn & Suites Huntsville at Space & Rocket Center at a rate of $123 per night. Please mention UAH-CBMS Conference (Group No. 2397019) when you make your reservation. The cutoff date for reservation is July 1, 2020. Sponsors We are very grateful to our sponsors for their support