The 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics is the latest in a series organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the IMS. Held every four years, the congress is a worldwide event covering all branches of statistics and probability. This includes the latest scientific developments in theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, as well as stochastic processes.

The 2016 IMS Annual Meeting will take place at the 9th World Congress.

Confirmed plenary speakers are: Sara van de Geer (Wald Lecture); Bin Yu (Rietz Lecture); Scott Sheffield (Doob Lecture); Ofer Zeitouni (Schramm Lecture); Byeong Park (Laplace Lecture); Valerie Isham (Bernoulli Lecture); Ruth Williams (Kolmogorov Lecture); Servet Martínez (Lévy Lecture); David Brillinger (Tukey Lecture); and five IMS Medallion Lectures, from Frank den Hollander, Vanessa Didelez, Christina Goldschmidt, Arnaud Doucet and Pierre del Moral. See http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/16-17/WC2016/