The Quality and Productivity (Q&P) section is sponsoring the following topic-contributed and contributed sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings this year:

• Statistical Issues in Large-Scale Quality Control Systems, organized by Emmanuel Yashchin, IBM Research
• Maintenance, Monitoring, and Inference: Different Aspects of Reliability Modeling in Industrial Applications, organized by Ananda Sen, University of Michigan
• Reliability, Degradation, and Competing Risks, chaired by Ming Li, REANCON
• Improvements in Quality Assurance and Statistical Process Control, chaired by Erin Tanenbaum, NORC at the University of Chicago

Attendees are encouraged to use the online program to search for Q&P sessions throughout the meeting. The Q&P section also works closely with the Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) to co-sponsor sessions of interest to both sections. In these situations, you will see Q&P listed as a co-sponsor in the online program, which contains more sessions than what is listed above.