The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) will be hosting a two-day workshop on nonparametric curve smoothing on December 16-17, 2013 as part of the celebrations for the International Year of Statistics. The workshop, whose main sponsor is the Centre de recherches mathématiques (StatLab) as well as Concordia University, is intended mostly for young researchers and graduate students.

Topics of planned sessions Smoothing parameter selection; Boundary bias problem; Smoothing for dependent data; Deconvolution problems; Image analysis; Functional data analysis.