Yili Hong, SPES JSM Program Chair; Pete Hovey, SPES Chair; and Xinwei Deng, JRC Program Committee Chair

SPES had a good year of representation at JSM 2018, sponsoring four invited sessions, three topic-contributed sessions, four contributed sessions, one contributed poster session, and four roundtable discussions. SPES also co-sponsored five sessions and one speed session.

Newly Elected SPES Officers

• Robert Gramacy, Chair-elect
• Mary Frances Dorn, JSM Program Chair-elect
• Kimberly Kaufeld, Council of Sections Representative 2019–2021

Joint Research Conference 2018 Wrap-Up

The 2018 Joint Research Conference was hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory and took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 11–14. This is a joint meeting of the 25th Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology and the 35th Quality and Productivity Research Conference. It attracted about 140 attendees, including about 133 conference attendees and 42 short course attendees (with some attending both) from the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Attendees included academic faculty and students and researchers and practitioners from industry.

We kept the SRC tradition of diversifying the program topics, exploring important problems, and bridging the academic research and industrial application gap. As the program and local arrangement committee, we have tried our best to organize sessions, accommodate attendees, and provide financial help to students.

Overall, JRC 2018 was deemed successful. More information can be found on the conference website.