Spring Research Conference

The IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference (SRC) is an annual conference sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The goal of the SRC is to promote cross-disciplinary statistical research in engineering, science and technology. The topics broadly cover a wide range of research areas including design and analysis of experiments, uncertainty quantification, computer experiment, machine learning, quality control, reliability modeling, statistical computing, with the applications in business, industry, environment, information technology and advanced manufacturing. The SRC also regularly has invited sessions organized by editors of top journals including Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, and SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification.

About every three or four years, the Spring Research Conference (SRC) and the Quality and Productivity Research Conference (QPRC) will have a joint conference together as the Joint Research Conference (JRC). The QPRC is an annual conference sponsored by the American Statistical Association's Section on Quality and Productivity.

History

The first SRC was held in 1992 in Philadelphia as IMS Regional Meeting-Special Topics in Industrial Statistics. The inaugural conference was held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in June, 1994, with Rob Easterling as program chair and Jerry Sacks as local organizer. The long-term welfare of the conference is handled by a conference management committee. The members of the first conference management committee were Vijay Nair (Chair), Jon Kettenring, Jerry Lawless, Jeff Robinson, Daryl Pregibon, and C. F. Jeff Wu. The conference completed its 25th anniversary in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2018.

Future Meetings

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the SRC 2020 was cancelled, which was originally planned to be hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan from May 20-22, 2020. The SRC 2021 is under planning and will still be hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

Past Conferences

Dates	Location	Host	Website
May 22–24, 2019	Blacksburg, Virginia	Virginia Tech	SRC 2019
June 11–14, 2018	Santa Fe, New Mexico	Los Alamos National Laboratory	JRC 2018
May 17–19, 2017	New Brunswick, New Jersey	Rutgers University	SRC 2017
May 25–27, 2016	Chicago, Illinois	Illinois Institute of Technology	SRC 2016
May 20–22, 2015	Cincinnati, Ohio	Procter & Gamble Company	SRC 2015
June 24–26, 2014	Seattle, Washington	University of Washington	JRC 2014
June 20–22, 2013	Los Angeles, California	University of California-Los Angeles	SRC 2013
June 13–15, 2012	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Harvard University	SRC 2012
June 22–24, 2011	Evanston, Illinois	Northwestern University	SRC 2011
May 25–27, 2010	Gaithersburg, Maryland	National Institute of Standards and Technology	JRC 2010
May 27–29, 2009	Vancouver, Canada	Simon Fraser University	SRC 2009
May 19–21, 2008	Atlanta, Georgia	Georgia Institute of Technology	SRC 2008
May 21–23, 2007	Ames, Iowa	Iowa State University	[SRC 2007]
June 7–9, 2006	Knoxville, Tennessee	University of Tennessee-Knoxville	JRC 2006
June 1–3, 2005	Park City, Utah	University of Utah	[SRC 2005]

External links

• Spring Research Conference on the Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences of ASA webpage