Laboratoire de Recherche en Statistique et Probabilités
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Laboratory for Research in Statistics and Probability
Laboratoire de Recherche en Statistique et Probabilités |
Reach us by email: LRSP@math.carleton.ca
The Laboratory for Research in Statistics and Probability (LRSP), Carleton University -- University of Ottawa -- Universite du Quebec en Outaouais (a later addition in 2004) was created in May 1982 to provide a focus for a wide spectrum of fundamental research and professional activities in probability and statistics. Situated at the Carleton University campus, it has provided an excellent setting for achieving these goals via hosting many participating researchers from universities in Canada, the USA and from all over the world, and, taking advantage of its location, interfacing also with government institutions and industries in the Capital region.
A Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Major Facilities Access (MFA) grant originally financed the central co-ordination of the LRSP.
The major activities include:
The LRSP hosted very successful international conferences and themed workshops at Carleton University including::
- International Symposium in Probability and Stochastic Processes, June 5-8, 2007
- Workshop on Lorenz-Gini Type Asymptotic Methods in Probability and Statistics, and their applications, September 14-16, 2006
- Carleton Applied Probability Workshop, June 1-3, 2006
- MITACS/LRSP Workshop on Networks, October 22, 2005
- ICRASS: International Conference on Recent Advances in Survey Sampling, July 10-13, 2002
- ICAMS'02: International Conference on Asymptotic Methods in Stochastics, May 23-25, 2000 (Proceedings)
Likewise, the LRSP jointly hosted the following at The University of Ottawa:
- Workshop on Probabilistic Symmetries and their applications, May 15-17, 2006
- Fields-Ottawa Workshop on Empirical Likelihood Methods, May 9-11, 2005
- The Point of Point Processes Workshop on February 23-25, 2004 sponsored by the Fields Institute
Recent special events that were held as part of the seminar series from Theme Terms held at Carleton University, include:
- 'Wolfgang Doeblin' Stochastics Day, April 25, 2008
- Einstein (1905) Day, LRSP Seminar on Brownian Motion, December 2, 2005
- Applied Probability Day, September 16-17, 2005
- Probability-Statistics Day, May 13, 2005
- Probability Day - April 2, 2004
- Probabilty-Statistics Day, December 5, 2003
The major participants in LRSP are the members at Carleton University, University of Ottawa, and Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, external Full Research Members, and researchers from Canada and abroad who come regularly to LRSP. Our many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are very much a part of our laboratory and their research and studies here have been greatly enhanced by the international calibre of our activities. Indeed, many of our students come here because of the international reputation of the Laboratory and its researchers. In a recent ranking of most productive world institutions in statistical research, the Carleton University Statistics Group of the School of Mathematics and Statistics is ranked number four in the world, right after Stanford University, and the University of Ottawa Statistics Group was ranked fifth. This ranking is based on publications in the top statistical journals for the period 1985-95. The criterion used is the number of published pages per distinct author, conditional on at least nine contributors in a group. Further details of this survey can be found in the article by Christian Genest of Laval University, titled "Measuring research productivity by journal publications" that appeared in the Canadian Journal of Statistics, Volume 25 (1997), 427-443.
See the MEMBERSHIP list of the LRSP group here