==== Organizing Committee ====

  * [[http://ms.mcmaster.ca/bala/bala.html|Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan]] (Canada)
  * [[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~wqmeeker/|William Q. Meeker]] (USA)
  * [[http://dept.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~vnn/|Vijayan Nair]] (USA)
  * Mikhail Nikulin (France, Russia)
  * [[http://www-suzuki.inf.uec.ac.jp/index.php?Teacher%2FEnglish|Kazuyuki Suzuki]] (Japan)