Workshop Announcement
 
                APPLICATIONS OF HEAVY TAILED DISTRIBUTIONS IN
                   ECONOMICS, ENGINEERING AND STATISTICS.
 
                               3-5 June 1999
 
                             American University
                                Washington, DC
 
Co-sponsored by:
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and
The American Statistical Association.
 
Workshop homepage:
 
  http://www.cas.american.edu/~jpnolan/HeavyTails.html
 
 
Heavy tailed distributions are used to model phenomena in
a wide array of problems in economics, finance, signal processing,
telecommunications network analysis, time series, physics and biology.
Although many important problems are poorly described by standard
Gaussian models, practical work in this area has been limited
by the lack of efficient and reliable methods for working with
non-Gaussian models. The invited speakers are theoreticians and
practioners who are experts in the field of heavy tailed modeling.

Invited Speakers
 
Robert Adler (Technion), Gonzalo Arce (Delaware), Michel Dacorogna
(Olsen/Zurich), Richard Davis (Colorado State), Paul Embrecht
(ETH/Zurich), Raya Feldman (Santa Barbara), Mircea Grigoriu (Cornell),
Benoit Mandelbrot (Yale), J.H. McCulloch (Ohio State), Steve
McLaughlin (Edinburgh), Chrysostomos Nikias (USC), Athina Petropulu
(Drexel), Nalini Ravishanker (Connecticut), Sid Resnick (Cornell),
Gennady Samorodnitsky (Cornell), Til Schuermann (Oliver Wyman/NY),
Richard Smith (Chapel Hill), Murad Taqqu (Boston), Walter Willinger
(Bell Labs), Edward Wegman (George Mason), Aleksander Weron (Wroclaw),
Tong Zhou (Georgia Tech).
 
In addition to talks by invited speakers, there will be sessions for
contributed talks and a conference proceedings published on CD-ROM.
Abstracts for contributed talks are due March 1, 1999; applicants
will be notified by April 1, 1999 whether their abstract has been
accepted.  To appear in the proceedings, papers must be submitted
before or at the conference as a postscript file.
 
Preregistration fees are $100, $50 for certified students before
April 1.  See the conference webpage for more information on
invited speakers, contributed papers, fees and accomodations:
 
  http://www.cas.american.edu/~jpnolan/HeavyTails.html
 
For more information, contact the conference organizers:
 
 John Nolan                          Ananthram Swami
 Dept of Mathematics & Statistics    Communications & Network Systems Division
 American University                 Army Research Lab
 jpnolan@american.edu                aswami@arl.mil / a.swami@ieee.org