A conference hosted by the Department of Statistics, Florida State University, in coordination with the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA), to celebrate the birth centenary of Debabrata Basu and Raghu Raj Bahadur and to honor their fundamental contributions to statistics. Two special/keynote lectures are: Bahadur Lecture by Professor T. Tony Cai, IMS President-elect, Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Statistics, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; and Basu Lecture by Professor Merlise A. Clyde, Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University. Banquet lecture will be given by Professor Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, Harvard University.

IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Subhashis Ghoshal, Xin Zhang