2026 IMS Annual Meeting: July 6–9, 2026 in Salzburg, Austria

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The 2026 IMS Annual Meeting will be held in Salzburg, Austria, July 6–9, 2026. The venue is Salzburg Congress (https://www.salzburgcongress.at/en), located in the heart of the city and close to the river. The meeting organizers (Kavita Ramanan, IMS President; Genevera Allen, Program Chair for Statistics; Remco van der Hofstad, Program Chair for Probability; and Arne Bathke, Local Chair) are currently working on the invited program, which will be announced soon.

The conference will cover a broad range of topics from statistics and probability, as well as the two Wald lectures (Tilmann Gneiting); the Blackwell lecture (Cun-Hui Zhang); three Medallion lectures (Jelle Goeman, Ian McKeague, Bodhisattva Sen); and four Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award lectures (Jin-Hong Du, Yu Gui, Subhodh Kotekal, Reese Pathak), as well as the IMS Presidential Address by Kavita Ramanan, in addition to many other plenary, invited, and contributed presentations. Conference participants will also be treated to a classical chamber concert, by joint invitation of the Federal State of Salzburg and the City of Salzburg.

Registration links for the IMS Annual Meeting will open up sometime early in 2026, and as a heads-up, conference dinner tickets will be first come first served, so make sure to register early once the site opens.

There will also be an exciting opportunity to join a satellite meeting right afterwards in Salzburg: the tenth edition of BFF (Bayes, Fiducial, Frequentist), taking place 10 & 11 July. Stay tuned for further details on both conferences, and on how you can combine them.

If you’re taking a little more time in the area after these meetings, the famous Salzburg Music Festival will start on 17 July, and the beautiful mountains around Salzburg are always good for a visit. For more trip inspiration, tips, and local attractions in Salzburg, check out the article in the January/February Bulletin.

See you in Salzburg!