The Quality and Productivity Section (Q&P) will offer four topic-contributed sessions and sponsor three contributed sessions at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego. You can find all of the Q&P-sponsored and cosponsored sessions by searching the JSM online program.

Topic-Contributed Sessions

• Modern Reliability and Structured Health Management, organized and chaired by Ming Li of GE Global Research
• Model Robust Design: Why Not More Impact?, organized and chaired by Byran Smucker of Miami University
• Flexible and Powerful Approaches to Process Optimization Using Bayesian Methods, organized and chaired by John Peterson of GlaxoSmithKline
• Some Current Research Problems in Statistical Process Control, organized and chaired by Subha Chakraborti of the University of Alabama

Contributed Sessions

• Advances in Statistical Process Control
• Methods of Reliability and Life Testing
• Experiments: Design, Modeling, and Analysis

Cosponsored Sessions

• Recurrent Events and Interval Censored Data
• Reliability Bayesian Modeling in Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Risk Management: Classical or Bayesian
• Designed Experiments
• Computer Experiments
• Risk Model Selection and Extreme Values