Title Applications of Heavy Tailed Distributions in Economics, Engineering and Statistics

Date June 3-5, 1999

Location American University, Washington, DC

Information Objective: Heavy tailed distributions are being used in a large variety of problems in economics, finance, engineering, statistics, and other areas. It is evident that many important problems are poorly described by standard Gaussian models. This conference will draw together experts from a range of disciplines to describe ths methods used to analyze such processes.

Invited Speakers: Robert Adler, Gonzalo Arce, Richard Davis, Francis Diebold, Raya Feldman, Mircea Grigoriu, Saleem Kassam, Andrew Lo, Benoit Mandelbrot, J.H. McCulloch, Steve McLaughlin, Chrysostomos Nikias, Athina Petropulu, Nalini Ravishanker, Sid Resnick, Gennady Samorodnitsky, Murad Taqqu, Walter Willinger, Edward Wegman, Aleksander Weron, Tong Zhou.

Organizers: John P. Nolan (American University) E-mail: jpnolan@american.edu Ananthram Swami (Army Research Labs) E-mail: aswami@arl.mil or a.swami@ieee.org

Information: For additional information please visit our webpage at: http://www.cas.american.edu/~jpnolan/HeavyTails.html

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