Astrostatistics (Statistical analysis of data related to Astronomy and Astrophysics)

Chair:	Professor Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, Calcutta University
Speakers:	Professor Dean McLaughlin, Keele University, UK
	Professor Tanuka Chattopadhyay, University of Calcutta, India
	Professor Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay, University of Calcutta, India
	Dr. Didier Fraix-Burnet, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
	Dr. Margarita Sharina, Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. Isaac Newton Institute of Chile, SAO Branch

               
Demography & Population Ageing

Chair: Dr. Hafiz T.A. Khan, Middlesex University Business School, London & Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford, UK

Speakers:	Dr. Tengku Aizan Hamid, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
	Professor Tri Budi W. Rahardjo, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
	Dr. Shereen Hussein, King's College London, University of London, UK
	Professor Ishmael Kalule-Sabiti, North West University, South Africa
	Dr. Hafiz T.A. Khan, Middlesex University
	Dr. Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

A symposium on "medical meta-analysis"

Chair:	Professor Muhammed Ashraf Memon, FRCS, Consultant Surgeon, Department of Surgery and Nutrition and Dietetics, Ipswich Hospital, Queensland, Australia.
Speakers:	Professor Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland
	Professor P. Ghosh, Department of Quantitative sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.
	Professor S. Khan, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
	Professor K. Krishnamoorthy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
	Ms E. Osland, Department of Surgery and Nutrition and Dietetics, Ipswich Hospital, Queensland, Australia and Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.
	Dr M. S. Subramanya, Department of Surgery, Mount Isa Hospital, Queensland, Australia.

Statistics Education

Chair:	Professor Ali Rejali, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
Speakers:	Professor Munir Ahmad, National College of Business Administration & Economics Lahore, Pakistan.
	Professor Shahjahan Khan, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
	Professor Ali Rejali, Isfahan University of Technology & Isfahan Mathematics House.
	Professor Omar Rouan, ENS Marrakesh-Morocco.
	Professor S. Alimoradi, School of Mathematical Sciences, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
	Professor Mohamed A Ismail, Statistics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt.
	Professor Abhaya Indrayan, Delhi University, College of Medical Sciences, Delhi.

Small Area Estimation

Chair: Professor Malay Ghosh, University of Florida, Florida
Speakers: Professor Danny Pfeffermann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
               Professor Partha Lahiri, JPSM, University of Maryland
               Professor Sanjay Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore
               Professor Malay Ghosh, University of Florida, Florida

Frontiers in Statistics

Chair:	Professor Qi-Man Shao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Speakers:	Professor Bingyi Jing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Professor Qi-Man Shao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Professor Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly, Department of Statistics & Operations Research, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait
	Professor Ching-Shui Cheng, University of California at Berkeley
	Professor John Stufken, University of Georgia
	Professor Teresa Azinheira Oliveira, Universidade Aberta de Lisboa

Statistical Inference

Chair:	Dr. Zahirul Hoque, Assistant Professor Department of Statistics College of Business and Economics, United Arab Emirates University
Speakers:	Prof Anil Kumar Bera, University of Illinois, USA
	Professor Shahjahan Khan, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
	Dr. Zahirul Hoque, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
	Professor Samarjit Das, Economic Research Unit (ERU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
	Dr. Atanu Biswas, Applied Statistics Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
	Professor Pinakpani Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

Directional Statistics

Chair: Dr. A. Ghapor Hussein, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Speakers: Prof. S. Rao Jammalamadaka, University of California, USA.
               Dr. A. Ghapor Hussin, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
               Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
               Dr. Yong Zulina Zubairi, University of Malaya, Malaysia.

Biostatistics

Chair:	Dr. Gurprit Grover, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, India.
Speakers:	Professor Ronald Geskus, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam.
	Dr. Asep Saefuddin, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Bogor, Indonesia.
	Dr. Gurprit Grover, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, India.
	Dr. Nezhat Shakeri, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.