N-Power Programme Assessment Process and Dates - On-going

N-Power Programme Assessment Process and Dates - On-going

Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) Massive Job Recruitment

Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) Massive Job Recruitment

ATBU 2016/2017 D.E ONLINE SCREENING UPDATE

D.E  candidates who applied in ATBU bauchi can now log in and proceed  with their online screening as Jamb had sent their updates to the school.
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NYSC BATCH B TIME TABLE 2016

The NYSC Batch B timetable for 2016 has been released, check it out below:

Display of list of all approved programmes for institutions on NYSC portal for cross checking and feedback	14th – 21st September 2016
2	Collation of Prospective Corps Members’ Data by Corps Producing Institutions CPIs	12th – 30th September 2016
3	Submission/Uploading of Senate/Academic Board Approved Results for Full/Part-Time Graduates and Revalidation Lists by CPIs	3rd – 8th October 2016
4	Uploading of Corrected Lists by Corps Producing Institutions	8th – 14th October 2016
5	On-line Registration by Foreign and locally Trained Nigerian Graduates	17th October – 12th November 2016
6	Entertainment of complaints from Prospective Corps Members by the state Deployment and Relocation officers and NYSC Help Lines/Desks officers.	17th October – 12th November, 2016
7	Forwarding of Complaints to Mobilisation Dept by State Deployment and Relocation officers	17th October – 12th November, 2016
8	Deployment and Printing of Call-up Letters by ICT Department	14th – 19th November, 2016
9	Notification/On-line Printing of Call-up Letters/Delivery of Call-up letters to Institutions	21st – 25th November, 2016
10	On-line Printing of Deployment Disposition by Corps Producing Institutions CPIs	21st – 25th November, 2016

WORKERS BLOCK ROAD IN KADUNA

Yesterday, the popular Barnawa road in Kaduna state was blocked with refuse dump in protest for non payment of employees. According to reports, governor Nasir Elrufai has not paid the workers he employed to evacuate the refuse dump in Kaduna and in protest to that, the employees poured the wastes on the road and blocked from using the road.

See photos below

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/09/photos-workers-block-major-road-in.html

2016 INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS

			2016 Meetings Around the World IMS Annual Meeting IMS Annual Meeting/World Congress of Probability and Statistics July 11, 2016 – July 15, 2016 Toronto, Ontario, Canada (IMS Sponsored Meeting) January 15th Winter school on Mathematical Finance January 25, 2016 – January 27, 2016 Lunteren, The Netherlands 15th winter school on mathematical finance with minicourses by Dirk Becherer and Fred Espen Benth, special invited lectures by Nicole Bäuerle, Sara Biagini and Thorsten Schmidt. February Fourth Asian Quantitative Finance Conference February 21, 2016 – February 23, 2016 Osaka, Osaka, Japan The AQFC has been an annual international conference since 2013. The aim of the conference is to feature the latest developments in the field of quantitative finance and promote its research in Asia. It also hopes to bring together researchers as well as practitioners on quantitative finance in Asia and elsewhere and provide a platform for interaction and cooperation. There will be plenary talks as well as contributed talks. March 12th German Probability and Statistics Days 2016 – Bochumer Stochastik-Tage March 1, 2016 – March 4, 2016 Bochum, Germany The DMV-Fachgruppe Stochastik organizes jointly with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum the 12th German Probability and Statistics Days 2016 – Bochumer Stochastik-Tage. In the tradition of the previous conferences, this meeting provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of new results in the area of probability and statistics. Contributed talks will be given in 12 sections devoted to specific topics; the highlight of each section will be one invited main talk. Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2016 March 16, 2016 – March 19, 2016 College Park, MD, Maryland Participants are encouraged to give a short talk or present a poster or an open problem. The local organizers are Sandra Cerrai, Dmitry Dolgopyat, Mark Freidlin and Leonid Koralov. (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) April Info-Metrics Institute Spring 2016 Conference April 1, 2016 – April 2, 2016 Cambridge, United Kingdom Information-Theoretic Methods of Inference Workshop Objectives and Topics The objective of this workshop is to study new methods of statistical inference based on information-theoretic methods. Info-metric and Information-Theoretic ideas are being applied in variety of disciplines, such as biology, ecology, economics, finance and physics (for examples see Fall 2014 conference celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Institute). The Spring 2016 workshop focuses on the use of info-metric and information-theoretic ideas in the development and Advances in Numerical and Analytic Approaches for the Study of Non-Spatial Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Molecular Biology April 4, 2016 – April 8, 2016 Cambridge, England, United Kingdom This workshop focuses on numerical methods and mathematical analysis for non­spatial stochastic dynamical models that arise in molecular biology. New experimental techniques at a molecular level boosted the interest for such models in recent years, for example for gene regulatory networks, biochemical signaling and transduction cascades, molecular motors, and morphogenesis. UK Easter Probability Meeting 2016: Random Structures Arising in Physics and Analysis April 4, 2016 – April 8, 2015 Lancaster, United Kingdom IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Amanda Turner (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification April 5, 2016 – April 8, 2016 Lausanne, Switzerland Uncertainty quantification is critical to achieving validated predictive computations in a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. The field relies on a broad range of mathematics and statistics foundations, with associated algorithmic and computational development. This conference will bring together mathematicians, statisticians, scientists, and engineers with an interest in development and implementation of uncertainty quantification methods. Columbia-Princeton Probability Day 2016 April 8, 2016 – April 8, 2016 New York, NY, USA Main Speakers: Rick Kenyon (Brown), Joel Lebowitz (Rutgers), Allan Sly (Berkeley), Peter Winkler (Dartmouth); Junior Speakers: Guillaume Barraquand (Columbia), Hao Shen (Columbia). Registration is free on the probability day website. NIMBioS Tutorial: Game Theoretical Modeling of Evolution in Structured Populations April 25, 2016 – April 27, 2016 Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Participants will be introduced to the discrete graph theory methods and models of structured population as well as classical continuous models based on differential equations. They will learn how to use such methods and/or build and analyze models in the context of the tutorial's topics and will work in small groups to experience how to use the methodology to describe, simulate, and analyze the relevant biological systems. Participants will be exposed to software that implements the mathematical methods, aids visualization, and facilitates computations and analyses. Participants will learn how the tutorial materials may fit into mathematics and biology courses or be used as an introduction to independent studies or undergraduate research. May Workshop: "Dependence, Stability, and Extremes" May 2, 2016 – May 6, 2016 Toronto, Canada The workshop presents recent results in areas related to heavy tails, extremes and dependence, including topics on a) weak convergence for heavy tailed dependent processes and time series; b) stationary and stable processes; c) stable random fields; d) regular variation and heavy tails; e) complex stochastic systems: random matrices and random networks with heavy tails. The workshop will feature 4 expository lectures by Gennady Samorodnitsky and Clément Dombry on related background for graduate students and people interested in these areas, and include around 20 talks on recent research advances by well-established or young researchers. There are also a few open problem sessions and a poster session. Funding opportunities are available, with priority given to graduate students and junior researchers. Conference on New Developments in Probability May 6, 2016 – May 8, 2016 Evanston, Illinois, USA This conference is part of the 2015/2016 emphasis year in probability theory. It is jointly hosted by Women in Probability. Frontier Probability Days 2016 May 9, 2016 – May 11, 2016 Salt Lake City, UT, USA The purpose of this meeting is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications. IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Ed Waymire (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) Simons Conference on Random Graph Processes May 9, 2016 – May 12, 2016 Austin, Texas, USA This is the third in a series of meetings organized at UT Austin on related topics, alternating yearly in an emphasis on mathematics one year, and on network applications the next. The 2016 workshop will again be on the mathematics of stochastic processes and graphs, this time focusing on the studies of processes in, and on, large graphs. Our aim is to bring together a diverse set of eminent researchers from various communities in this broad subject, to give a global picture which will hopefully lead to interactions and cross-fertilization. Workshop on Fractality and Fractionality May 17, 2016 – May 20, 2016 Leiden, The Netherlands Main invited speakers: Antoine Ayache, Martin Grothaus, Jun Kigami, Virginia Kiryakova, Anatoly Kochubei, Vassili Kolokoltsov, Yurii Kondratiev, Takashi Kumagai, Nikolai Leonenko, Jacques Lévy Véhel, Yuri Luchko, Francesco Mainardi, Enzo Orsingher, Mark Podolskij, Igor Podlubny, Maria Dolorez Ruiz-Medina, Gennady Samorodnitsky, Murad Taqqu, Tommi Sottinen. For more information, particularities and registration, see the website. Organizers: Yuliya Mishura, Grygoriy Torbin , Georgiy Shevchenko, Peter Spreij, Martina Zähle. International Conference on Information Complexity and Statistical Modeling in High Dimensions with Applications (IC-SMHD-2016) May 18, 2016 – May 21, 2016 Cappadocia, Turkey As part of the conference, IC-SMHD-2016 will feature a Festschrift honoring Prof. Dr. Hamparsum (Ham) Bozdogan, Toby McKenzie Professor at the University of Tennessee, for his outstanding contributions not just to the domain of information complexity and model selection enterprise in high-dimensions, but also to his international outreach contributions in disseminating statistical knowledge to the young future scholars from many different countries, including Turkey. Spring Research Conference 2016 May 25, 2016 – May 27, 2016 Chicago, Illinois, USA SRC has a history of more than two decades, and continues to explore many important topics, including statistical methodologies and theories on design and analysis of experiments, uncertainty quantification, computer experiments and statistical computing, applications of data science in business, industry and government policy making, methods on quality improvement and measurement system, etc. This year’s keynote speakers are Jeff Wu from Georgia Tech, Henry Wynn from London School of Economics, and Dennis Lin from Penn State. IWMST-2016, International Workshop on Mathematics and Statistics May 28, 2016 – May 29, 2016 Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye International Workshop on Mathematics and Statistics is a peer reviewed academic event held annually. IWMST-2016 is organized by Scientific Cooperations and aims to increase the collaboration among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in Mathematics and Statistics through scientific publications. The workshop is a part of International Conference of Basic Sciences which consists of three separate workshops of different disciplines. NSF/CBMS Regional Research Conference on Topological Data Analysis May 31, 2016 – June 4, 2016 Austin, Texas, USA The conference will feature Professor Sayan Mukherjee from Duke University as the principal lecturer, and five additional featured speakers including Professors Rabi Bhattacharya, Susan Holmes, Ann Lee, Lek-Heng Lim and Yusu Wang. This conference will introduce graduate students and junior researchers to TDA, an active new field, which lies at the exciting intersection of topology, geometry, and statistics and serve as an opportunity to foster research collaborations. (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) NSF-CBMS 2016 REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOPOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS: TOPOLOGY, GEOMETRY AND STATISTICS May 31, 2016 – June 4, 2016 Austin, Texas, USA UT-Austin is hosting a five-day conference on Topological Data Analysis (TDA): Topology, Geometry and Statistics. The conference will feature Professor Sayan Mukherjee from Duke University as the principal lecturer, who will deliver a series of tutorial lectures on TDA. Five additional featured speakers including Professors Rabi Bhattacharya, Susan Holmes, Ann Lee, Lek-Heng Lim and Yusu Wang, will give additional talks on topics such as TDA in Machine learning, Statistics and Geometry, application of TDA in biomedical fields. June 5th Berlin Workshop on Mathematical Finance for Young Researchers June 1, 2016 – June 4, 2016 Berlin, Germany The workshop, which is jointly organized by Humboldt University Berlin and Technical University Berlin, provides a forum for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and young faculty members from all over the world to discuss their research in an informal atmosphere. AU Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and their Applications June 5, 2016 – June 10, 2016 Sandbjerg Estate, Sønderborg, Denmark This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together scientists from integral geometry, geometric probability, geometric measure theory, stochastic geometry, stereology, applied probability, spatial statistics and bioimaging. An important scope of the workshop is to discuss recent theoretical advances in stochastic geometry and their potential for applications. The workshop will celebrate the scientific achievements of AU professor Eva B. Vedel Jensen. Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI June 6, 2016 – June 10, 2016 Pittsburgh, PA, USA After five groundbreaking conferences at Penn State, Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, June 6 to 10, 2016. This meeting will continue the interdisciplinary tradition of its predecessors, bringing together researchers in astronomy, cosmology, statistics, and machine learning to facilitate progress on the significant data analysis challenges that result from current and future astronomical sky surveys. Abstracts will be accepted for contributed talks and for posters. Advances in Statistics, Probability and Mathematical Physics June 10, 2016 – June 11, 2016 Pavia, Italy The conference will honor Eugenio Regazzini on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It will take place at the University of Pavia, Italy, on June 10-11, 2016. The program will feature invited talks of authoritative speakers who have been working on topics related to the ones Eugenio has contributed to in Statistics, Probability and Mathematical Physics. IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Antonio Lijoi and Pietro Rigo (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) 3rd ISNPS Conference June 11, 2016 – June 16, 2016 Avignon, France The 3rd ISNPS conference will put together recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics. This conference will be a perfect place to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration between researchers from all over the world and contribute to the further development of the field. Mathematics Research Community on Algebraic Statistics June 12, 2016 – June 18, 2016 Snowbird, Utah, USA The conference on Algebraic Statistics is one of 4 MRCs for early-career mathematicians run by the American Mathematical Society. Funded by NSF, MRCs foster the formation of self-sustaining cohorts of mathematical scientists centered on research areas of common interest. The program provides participants travel, room, and board at the conference site and supports subsequent travel to the Joint Mathematics Meetings and a limited number of follow-up collaboration gatherings. Applications are accepted from November 1, 2015 to March 1, 2016. XXXIII International Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models June 12, 2016 – June 18, 2016 Svetlogorsk, Russia Seminars on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models have a long tradition. They were started by Prof. Vladimir Zolotarev in the 1970’s. The seminars are attended by leading probabilists from all over the world. The Seminars traditionally aim at bringing together people from Eastern and Western parts of Europe to share their expertise, new results, exchange the ideas and discuss open problems. In this century Seminars took place in Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain, Latvia, Italy, Israel, Romania, Poland, Norway and Russia. The 25th ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium 2016 June 12, 2016 – June 15, 2016 Atlanta, Georgia, USA You are cordially invited to 2016 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium in Atlanta! The city of Atlanta enjoys a mild climate throughout the year, and is accessible from most cities across the North America. Keynote Speakers for the 2016 Applied Statistics Symposium will be Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley and David Madigan, University of Columbia Banquet Speaker will be Michael Eriksen, Georgia State University. Details are forthcoming on the symposium website. Details of the scientific programs are on the symposium website. IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Yichuan Zhao  (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) Second International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance June 15, 2016 – June 18, 2016 Cartagena, Colombia The event covers diverse areas of quantitative finance and actuarial science. Also, the Congress would provide space to debate on topics related to these areas. Topics of interest are teaching, research, technical regulation and business practice in Andean and Caribbean regions, and its inter-relation with the rest of the world. 36th International Symposium on Forecasting June 19, 2016 – June 22, 2016 Santander, Spain The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) is the premier forecasting conference, attracting the world’s leading forecasting researchers, practitioners, and students. Through a combination of keynote speaker presentations, academic sessions, workshops, and social programs, the ISF provides many excellent opportunities for networking, learning, and fun. Conference on Probability and Statistics in High Dimensions: A Scientific Tribute to Evarist Giné June 20, 2016 – June 22, 2016 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain This conference is held in memory of Evarist Giné (1944-2015), who was an influential, brilliant and prolific contributor to modern probability theory and mathematical statistics, with a focus on problems arising in infinite-dimensional settings. His work has had a profound impact on modern probability theory, mathematical statistics and recently also machine learning. The workshop will highlight recent activities in the areas Evarist worked in, as well as memorial sessions to celebrate his mathematical achievements. Stochastic Networks Conference June 20, 2016 – June 24, 2016 La Jolla, California, USA IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Haya Kaspi, Amber Puha, & Ruth Williams (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS 2016) June 21, 2016 – June 24, 2016 Berkeley, CA, USA This four-day series of academic workshops addresses algorithmic and statistical challenges in modern large-scale data analysis. The goals of this series of workshops are to explore novel techniques for modeling and analyzing massive, high-dimensional, and non-linearly structured scientific and internet data sets and to bring together computer scientists, statisticians, mathematicians, and data analysis practitioners to promote the cross-fertilization of ideas. Novel Statistical Methods in Neuroscience June 22, 2016 – June 24, 2016 Magdeburg, Germany Contributed poster presentations are highly welcome and can be submitted before May 1st. Registration is open until May 15th, but please note that the number of particpants is limited and registration is on a first come first serve basis. More information including a list of speakers can be found on the workshop webpage. International Workshop on Mathematical Reliability and Safety (MRS 2016) June 23, 2016 – June 25, 2016 Xuzhou, China The international workshop on Mathematical Reliability and Safety (MRS 2016) aims to bring active experts in various fields including reliability theory, risk management, statistics, and safety to exchange the newest developments, and promote advances in reliability and safety. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Reliability theory; Stochastic orders; Risk and security; Extreme value theory; Order statistics; Dependence modeling. PIMS Summer School 2016 in Mathematical Finance June 25, 2016 – July 6, 2016 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The summer school has two themes with the following speakers: 1. Informational and Imperfect Financial Markets (June 25 to June 29): Marek Rutkowski (University of Sydney), Agnès Sulem (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt), and Thaleia Zariphopoulou (University of Texas at Austin) 2. Market Microstructure and Algorithmic Trading (July 2 to July 6): Robert Almgren (Quantitative Brokers), Alvaro Cartea (University of Oxford), and Sebastian Jaimungal (University of Toronto) Fourth IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting June 27, 2016 – June 30, 2016 Hong Kong, China The Institute of Mathematical Statistics Asia Pacific Rim Meeting series promotes interaction and networking among statisticians and probabilitists from Asia, the Pacific Rim, and other parts of the world. The previous three meetings were successfully held in Seoul, Tsukuba, and Taipei. We are pleased to announce that the fourth meeting will take place on the beautiful campus of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, during the period of June 27–30, 2016. The program covers recent developments and the state-of-the-art in a variety of modern research topics in statistics and probability. For more information, you may contact the program chairs: Ming-Yen Cheng (cheng@math.ntu.edu.tw) and Xuming He (xmhe@umich.edu). (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) 3rd Barcelona Summer School on Stochastic Analysis June 27, 2016 – July 1, 2016 Barcelona, Spain The Barcelona Summer School on Stochastic Analysis is a one-week scientific activity consisting mainly of courses addressed to PhD students and young researchers on current research topics in Stochastic Analysis. Selected participants are also given the opportunity to deliver short talks or to display posters. 26th Nordic Conference in Mathematical Statistics (NORDSTAT 2016) June 27, 2016 – June 30, 2016 Copenhagen, Denmark The bienniel NORDSTAT conference is organized under the auspices of the Nordic and Baltic statistical societies. This year the Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics is organizing the meeting at the North Campus of University of Copenhagen. Abstract submission deadline: March 13. Early bird registration: April 11. July 6th IMS-FIPS (Finance, Insurance, Probability and Statistics) Workshop July 7, 2016 – July 9, 2016 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The primary purpose of the Sixth IMS-FIPS Workshop is to bring together a global cast of leading academic experts, practitioners and junior researchers to share research that underscores the contributions of probability and statistics to the development of quantititative models, methods, techniques and technologies in the fields of finance and insurance. (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) Greek Stochastics Workshop on Big Data and Big Models July 10, 2016 – July 13, 2016 Tinos, Greece Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 April 2016 The three short courses will be given by: *Eric Moulines on When Langevin Meets Markov . *Yee Whye Tee on Scalable Methods for Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning. *George Michalidis on Modeling, computation, inference and applications of graphical models. WNAR Annual Meeting​ in conjunction with​ XXVIIIth International​ Biometric Conference July 10, 2016 – July 15, 2016 ​Victoria, British Columbia, Canada The conference will be held at the Victoria Conference Centre, adjacent to the famous Empress Hotel. (IMS Sponsored Meeting) IMS Annual Meeting/World Congress of Probability and Statistics July 11, 2016 – July 15, 2016 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Scientific Program Chair, Alison Etheridge Local Organizing Chair, Tom Salisbury (IMS Sponsored Meeting) Statistical Causal Inference and its Applications to Genetics July 25, 2016 – July 29, 2016 Montreal, Quebec, Canada An exciting interdisciplinary five-day workshop to introduce a one month long research program on causal inference in genetics. NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Algebraic Mathematical Biology July 25, 2016 – July 27, 2016 Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Our 2.5-day workshop will bring together a diverse group of faculty from the field of algebraic and discrete mathematical biology to address the need to develop educational resources by: 1) surveying existing educational resources in discrete and algebraic mathematical biology; 2) identifying topics appropriate for undergraduates not yet featured in the existing literature; 3) identifying target courses in the mathematics and biology curricula that would benefit most from featuring those topics; 4) initiating the development of new curricular materials and ultimately publishing the materials for those topics; 5) facilitating the growth of a community of faculty actively involved in creating and using curricular resources for algebraic mathematical biology. 18th Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability July 28, 2016 – July 30, 2016 Madison, Wisconsin, USA The purpose of the conference is to promote interaction and networking among new researchers in these fields. Deadline for application is February 27. (IMS Sponsored Meeting) 2016 Joint Statistical Meetings July 30, 2016 – August 4, 2016 Chicago, Ilinois, USA (IMS Sponsored Meeting) August Applied Probability Symposium August 1, 2016 – August 3, 2016 Ilulissat, Greenland If you have emergent questions, please contact Søren Asmussen, asmus@math.au.dk Ordered Data and their Applications in Reliability and Survival Analysis: An International Conference in Honour of N. Balakrishnan for his 60th Birthday (ODRS 2016) August 7, 2016 – August 10, 2016 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada The 3 day conference will run from August 8th to 10th and will have 9 invited sessions, contributed sessions and 3 plenary speakers: Regina Liu (Rutgers University, USA), Fabrizio Ruggeri (Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Italy), and Bo Henry Lindqvist (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway). In addition there will be a student workshop in two parts given by Udo Kamps (RWTH Aachen, Germany) and Barry Arnold (University of California at Riverside, USA) on August 7th. NIMBioS Tutorial: Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics 2016 August 8, 2016 – August 12, 2016 Knoxville, Tennessee, USA This tutorial will review the basics of theory in the field of evolutionary quantitative genetics and its connections to evolution observed at various time scales. MCQMC 2016: 12th International conference on Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods in scientific computing. August 14, 2016 – August 19, 2016 Stanford, California, USA This multidisicplinary conference focuses on the following topics: Monte Carlo, quasi-Monte Carlo, Markov chain Monte Carlo; Digital nets and lattice rules; Discrepancy theory; Complexity and tractability of multivariate problems; Multi-level Monte Carlo; Sequential Monte Carlo and particle methods; Rare event simulation; Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo; Variance reduction methods; MC/QMC methods in physics, chemistry, finance, computer graphics and other areas. *Workshop on Geometry and Stochastics of Nonlinear, Functional and Graph Data August 15, 2016 – August 19, 2016 Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark The field of nonlinear statistics (NS) seeks to answer the fundamental questions that arise when defining new statistical models and tools in nonlinear spaces. The field spans from theoretical statistics and geometry to the development of data analysis tools that are directly applicable to actual data. A typical application area is bioimaging. Small Area Estimation Conference 2016 August 17, 2016 – August 19, 2016 Maastricht, The Netherlands This conference continues a series of conferences on small area estimation that have been organized annually at different places around the world. It will give researchers and practitioners from all over the world an opportunity to exchange information or learn about state-of-the-art small area estimation techniques. So far small area estimation has predominantly been an academic area of research. The aim of this conference is to give more attention to applications and implementation in government agencies. The 2016 IISA International Conference on Statistics: Statistical and Data Sciences - A Key to Healthy People, Planet and Prosperity August 18, 2016 – August 21, 2016 Corvallis, Oregon, United States Statistical and Data Sciences: A key to healthy people, planet and prosperity. The 2016 International Indian Statistical Association Conference will be held in Corvallis, Oregon August 18–21, 2016. It will bring together statisticians worldwide from academia, industry, government, and research institutes. Two-day workshop on Post-Model Selection August 22, 2016 – August 23, 2016 Leuven, Belgium The main theme is how to deal with the effects of model selection on further inference, this in various settings, using several estimation and selection methods. Speakers include: F. Bachoc (Toulouse), A. Charkhi (KU Leuven), N.L. Hjort (Oslo), D. Kozbur (ETH Zurich), D. Rothenhäusler (ETH Zurich), U. Schneider (Vienna), J. Taylor (Stanford), X. Tian (Stanford). 13th Iranian Statistical Conference August 24, 2016 – August 26, 2016 Kerman, Iran The Conference will be organized by Iranian Statistical Society,Scheduled every two years, the conference is a major Iranian event for statistics and probability, covering all their branches, including theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, and stochastic processes. Fractals, Ergodic Theory and Number Expansions August 30, 2016 – September 2, 2016 Utrecht, Netherlands Confirmed invited speakers are Henk Bruin, Vilmos Komornik, Derong Kong, Wenxia Li, Joerg Thuswaldner and Reem Yassawi. Population-based Time-to-event Analyses International Conference August 31, 2016 – September 2, 2016 London, London, United Kingdom The conference will focus on three themes of time-to-event analyses, all of which concentrate on population-based data and translational epidemiology: 1. Recent methodological developments in competing risks and net survival 2. Hierarchical and correlated data in survival and longitudinal analysis 3. Causal inference in longitudinal settings with time-dependent confounding The conference will include world-renowned invited speakers as well as oral and poster communications. September RSS 2016 International Conference September 5, 2016 – September 8, 2016 Manchester, United Kingdom Now in its 24th year, the conference has a focus on current statistical issues and fosters the exchange of ideas and information. Plenary speakers in 2016 will include Christl Donnelly (Imperial College London), Anne Glover (former Chief Scientific Adviser, European Commission) and Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University). This annual conference regularly attracts over 450 participants from all over the world, ranging from senior academic statisticians through to new graduates and postgraduate students. The host city is 2016 European City of Science. XIth International Conference “Computer Data Analysis and Modeling: Theoretical and Applied Stochastics” (CDAM 2016) September 6, 2016 – September 10, 2016 Minsk, Belarus Titles of sessions: Robust and Nonparametric Data Analysis; Multivariate Analysis; Statistical Analysis of Time Series and Spatial Data; Probabilistic and Statistical Analysis of Discrete Data; Asymptotic Methods in Stochastics; Econometric Modeling and Financial Mathematics; Survey Analysis and Official Statistics; Data Mining. Proceedings will be published before the Conference; extended versions of the selected papers will be published in Special issues of some journals after the Conference. Third International Conference on Analysis and Applied Mathematics September 7, 2016 – September 10, 2016 Almaty, Kazakhstan The aim of the International Conference on Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICAAM) is to bring mathematicians working in the area of analysis and applied mathematics together to share new trends of applications of mathematics. We plan to found the conference series to provide a forum for researches and scientists to communicate their recent developments and to present their original results in various fields of analysis and applied mathematics Flexible Statistical Modeling past, present and future September 15, 2016 – September 16, 2016 Ghent, Belgium The Flexible Statistical Modeling: past, present and future (FSM2016) workshop will take place the 15 and 16 September 2016 in the beautiful city of Ghent in Belgium. This workshop brings together international researchers in the field of flexible modeling to share their latest results. The purposes are to stimulate research in this field, identify interesting new problems and applications, and foster dialogue and future research collaborations. The program includes 3 plenary talks, 8 invited talks and 2 young researcher talks. The 6th International Workshop on Climate Informatics (CI 2016) September 22, 2016 – September 23, 2016 Boulder, Colorado, USA The Climate Informatics workshop series, now in its sixth year, seeks to bring together researchers from all of these areas. We aim to stimulate the discussion of new ideas, foster new collaborations, grow the climate informatics community, and thus accelerate discovery across disciplinary boundaries. Since earth system sciences can be brought to bear on the study of climate, the scope of the workshop also includes data science approaches to problems at the nexus of climate and the earth system sciences. 7th CEQURA Conference on Advances in Financial and Insurance Risk Management September 26, 2016 – September 27, 2016 Munich, Germany The 7th CEQURA Conference on Advances in Financial and Insurance Risk Management, organized by the Society for Financial and Insurance Econometrics and in collaboration with the Montreal Institute of Structured Products and Derivatives and the Bayerisches Finanz Zentrum, provides a platform for presenting and discussing current developments in research and industry, and fosters the exchange between academics and practitioners from the risk management community. Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI) September 30, 2016 – October 2, 2016 St. Louis, Missouri, USA The Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI) seeks to showcase the exciting new ideas coming out of the post-selection inference framework and investigate how tools from higher-order asymptotics can both elucidate important properties of post-selection inference procedures, as well as suggest new directions which may ultimately yield more accurate small-sample performance. Peter Hall Memorial Conference September 30, 2016 – October 1, 2016 Davis, California, USA IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Hans-Georg Müller Web page: under construction (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) October Nonparametric Statistics Workshop: Integration of Theory, Methods and Applications October 6, 2016 – October 7, 2016 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA The main goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in the development of nonparametric theory and methods or innovative applications from different sub-fields of statistics for stimulating interactions. Plenary lectures are given by Peter Bickel, Raymond Carroll, David Ruppert and Jane-Ling Wang. IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Naisyin Wang  (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) Latent Variables 2016 Conference October 12, 2016 – October 14, 2016 Columbia, South Carolina, USA The conference will honor Prof. Jayaram Sethuraman’s contribution to foundational issues in latent variables research. In addition to a plenary talk by Prof. Sethuraman, there will be four plenary talks. The conference will also feature 6 pairs of concurrent sessions, each with 3 speakers, with each speaker giving 25-30 minute talks. eRum 2016 October 13, 2016 – October 14, 2016 Poznan, Poland European R users meeting (eRum) is an international conference that aims at integrating users of the R language. eRum 2016 will be a good chance to exchange experiences, broaden knowledge on R and collaborate. One can participate in eRum 2016: (1) with a regular oral presentation, (2) with a lightning talk, (3) with a poster presentation, (4) or attending without presentation or poster. Due to space available at the conference venue, organizers set limit of participants at 250. International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications (ICOSDA 2016) October 14, 2016 – October 16, 2016 Niagara Falls, Canada This international conference is being organized to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss recent advancements on statistical distributions and their applications, and to provide opportunities for collaborative work. The scopes of ICOSDA 2016 include, but not limited to statistical distributions and their applications; statistical modeling; high dimensional data analysis; and Bayesian statistics. The conference presenters are invited to submit their articles for consideration of publication in a special issue of the Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications (http://www.JSDAjournal.com/). The submitted papers will go through the same rigorous peer review process as regular submissions. Accepted papers will receive at least 50% discount of Article Processing Charge (APC). A limited number of accepted articles may receive full APC waiver. A celebration in honor of Steve Fienberg October 15, 2016 – October 15, 2016 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA The conference will consist of a few talks, with some short comments and introductions in between, and will include the inaugural Fienberg lecture. Random processes and time series: theory and applications October 21, 2016 – October 23, 2016 La Jolla, California, USA IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dimitris Politis, Ruth Williams Web page: under construction (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) November NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Next Generation Genetic Monitoring November 7, 2016 – November 9, 2016 Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Our workshop will help unlock the conservation potential of genomics research, and ensure that genetic and non-genetic factors are considered in quantitative fashion when evaluating and managing wild and cultivated species. More broadly, we will lay a foundation for developing new theory and approaches for describing, quantifying, and interpreting the complex, multidimensional information contained in biodiversity datasets. International Conference on Computer Systems & Mathematical Sciences November 18, 2016 – November 19, 2016 Ghaziabad (Delhi NCR), Uttar Pradesh, India The Conference aims at creating a competent forum to bring Academicians, researchers, Industry professionals from all across the world to bring together & share their experience, work, research outcomes from various parts of the world on a global forum.This Conference includes all major topics of Mathematical Sciences, Statistical Sciences & Computer Sciences. December 72nd Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics December 4, 2016 – December 9, 2016 Atlantic City, NJ, United States The program will be on our website by June 1st. The 3-day conference (with poster sessions) provides a learning experience on recent developments in statistical methodologies. It’s followed by 2 parallel 2-day short courses. The conference at the Tropicana Casino Resort consists of 12 3-hour tutorials on current applied biostatistical topics based on recently published books that are sold at a ~40% discount. Attendees receive bound presentation proceedings. Walter Young has chaired this conference for 47 consecutive years. Australian Statistical Conference (ASC 2016) December 5, 2016 – December 9, 2016 Canberra, Australia The major focus of the conference will be Big Data: Mining, Analysing and Teaching. It aims to bring together the statistical approaches to data analysis with the techniques of data mining and their use in teaching statistics. Application to Big Data will be of particular interest. XIV CLAPEM December 5, 2016 – December 9, 2016 San José, Costa Rica The Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM) is the main event in probability and statistics in the region, having been held roughly every two or three years for almost 30 years. It is organized under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the SLAPEM (Latin-American Society on Probability and Mathematical Statistics). On this ocassion the event is organized by the Universidad de Costa Rica, the Universidad Nacional and the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Australian Statistical Conference 2016 December 5, 2016 – December 9, 2016 Canberra, Australia The 23rd Australian Statistical Conference which is to be held in conjunction with the 14th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM) and the 9th Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics (OZCOTS) will provide unique insight into statistics, data mining and statistics teaching. The major focus of the conference will be Big Data: Mining, Analysing and Teaching. It aims to bring together the statistical approaches to data analysis with the techniques of data mining and their use in teaching statistics. Application to Big Data will be of particular interest. ACEMS Workshop in Honour of Peter Gavin Hall December 10, 2016 – December 12, 2016 Parkville, Victoria, Australia This workshop will gather friends and colleagues of Peter to celebrate this exceptional man and his unique contributions to statistics. 14th International Conference on Statistical and Allied Sciences (ICCS-14) December 12, 2016 – December 15, 2016 Multan, Pakistan For more information please contact Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aslam Adeeb (Conference Coordinator), aslamadib@yahoo.com or Mr. Ali Asad (Conference Secretary), aliasadncba@gmail.com Conference on Experimental Designs and Analysis (CEDA) 2016 December 15, 2016 – December 17, 2016 Taipei, Taiwan Experimentation is one of the most common activities in scientific researches and industrial processes. An experiment is cost-efficient only when it is carefully designed and its results are correctly analyzed. The CEDA 2016 will highlight the most recent advances in the design and analysis of experiments and demonstrate their applicability to practitioners in scientific and industrial communities. In addition, it provides an excellent platform to share research ideas among senior mentors, junior researchers and Ph.D. students/graduates. Statistical Methods in Finance 2016 December 19, 2016 – December 22, 2016 Chennai, India The second international conference and workshop on Statistical Methods in Finance aims to expose the participants to new and active areas of research and to engage researchers into working groups. The conference is jointly organized by Indian Statistical Institute and Chennai Mathematical Institute with support from International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics. The 10th ICSA International Conference December 19, 2016 – December 22, 2016 Shanghai, China IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Ming Yuan, University of Wisconsin-Madison (IMS Co-sponsored Meeting) Platinum Jubilee International Conference on Applications of Statistics December 21, 2016 – December 23, 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India The three-day Conference being organized by Department of Statistics, Calcutta University to celebrate its Platinum Jubilee in 2016, will offer a common platform to statisticians engaged in applied research, to interact and exchange ideas. The main focus will lie on: (i) Design of Experiments in Agriculture and Industry (ii) Survey sampling and official statistics (iii) Biostatistics (iv) Applications of Statistics in Soocial Sciences (v) Applications of Statistics in Industry (vi) Applications of Statistics in Physical Sciences

2016 HEALTHY MEAL PLAN

7-Day Heart-Healthy Meal Plan

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Heart-Healthy Diet: 4 Heart-Healthy Foods

EatingWell's 7-Day Heart-Healthy Meal Plan provides an overall healthy-eating program at five different daily caloric levels: 1,200, 1,400, 1,600, 1,800 and 2,000. The menus are packed with nutrient-rich foods, including whole grains, lean meats, low-fat dairy and plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. The program also meets nutritional criteria specific to people with cardiovascular disease or those hoping to prevent its development. Find the right calorie level for you »

EatingWell 7 Day Heart-Healthy Meal Plan

 Day Heart Healthy 1200 calorie menu - Day 1

• Breakfast

  • 1 Cup Skim Milk
  • 1 Orange, medium
  • 1 Cup Cheerios Cereal

• Morning Snack

  • 1 Cup Cantaloupe Melon

• Lunch

  • Five-Spice Turkey & Lettuce Wraps
  • 1 Cup Skim Milk
  • 4 Ounces Fresh Pineapple

• Afternoon Snack

  • 2 Tablespoons Prepared Hummus
  • 4 Ounces Carrot Sticks

• Dinner

  • 1/2 Cup Cooked Brown Rice
  • 1/2 Cup Steamed Spinach
  • London Broil with Cherry-Balsamic Sauce
  • 1 Cup Tossed Salad Mix
  • 2 Tablespoons Low Calorie Caesar Salad Dressing