The IMS Annual Meeting 2026 will take place in Salzburg, Austria, from 6–9 July, 2026, at Salzburg Congress. The scientific program will feature the 2026 Wald Lecture (Tilmann Gneiting), the 2026 Blackwell Lecture (Cun-Hui Zhang) , three 2026 Medallion Lectures (Ian McKeague, Bodhisattva Sen, Jelle Goeman), the IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Awards, and more than 60 invited and contributed sessions. See the outline program at https://ims2026.github.io/IMS2026/program.html.

The organizers (Kavita Ramanan, Genevera Allen, Remco van der Hofstad, and Arne Bathke) say, “Thank you for the many invited session proposals that we received. Session organizers have been notified, and accepted presenters may now go ahead and register for the conference. Session organizers will soon receive a link for abstract submission to share with presenters in their respective session. Please note that you can only submit your abstract after having registered for the conference. Those whose presentation was not accepted in an invited session may still go ahead, register, and submit their presentation as a contributed talk.” The deadline to submit a contributed talk is April 1.

Please first register for the conference, and then submit the title and abstract of your talk. Register via https://imstat.org/shop/2026-ims-annual-meeting. (Early registration before May 15.)

Salzburg is a popular destination in the summer months: we advise you to make your hotel reservations early!