Byran Smucker, Miami University, SPES Education Chair

The 22nd ASA/IMS Spring Research Conference (SRC 2015) on Statistics in Industry and Technology will be hosted by Procter & Gamble and held in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Hyatt Regency, May 20–22. The SRC promotes cross-disciplinary research in statistical methods and collaboration between researchers and practitioners.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Bridging Statistics Research and Application to Foster Innovation.” Topics to be discussed include the design and analysis of experiments, computer experiments, Big Data, quality improvement and control, measurement systems, consumer research, statistical computing and applications to consumer products, the Air Force, and industry and government. Keynote speakers include Vijay Nair of the University of Michigan and Sallie Keller of Virginia Tech.

Submissions for contributed talks will be accepted until April 1. Submit a title and abstract via the SRC 2015 website.

A number of $600 scholarships will be available to selected student and early-career presenters.

For registration and all other information, please visit conference website or contact the contributed program chair, Byran Smucker, at smuckerb@miamioh.edu.