Registration to the Conference must be done online, through the Conference website.

Official letters of invitation are intended to help potential attendees obtain travel funds or a visa. The letter does not constitute any financial commitment on the part of the Congress and will only be available to fully registered and paid participants and their registered accompanying persons. A formal request, therefore, should be done upon registration through the Congress website.

Abstract submission is now closed.

ISI has a committee to deal with course proposals and select them. The call for such proposals closed on 15 May 2014.

Such opportunities appear at the Awards and Funding section of this website as they are announced.

No. A Professional Congress Organizer (PCO) has already been contracted through a tender process. Escala Eventos is the PCO for the Congress.

Yes, but in case both proposals are approved by the Scientific Program Committee they will contact you to advise on how to proceed.

According to the 60th WSC participation guidelines, which can be found here, each individual can present only one paper as oral presenter during the 60th WSC. Exceptions will be granted only in unusual circumstances, and requests must be approved by the Chairs of the Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) and Local Programme Committee (LPC). All requests should be sent to wsc2015@ibge.gov.br.
A co-author of a paper being presented by someone else is not counted as a presenter. Hence it is possible for an individual to be a co-author of multiple papers being presented at the 60th WSC.

According to the 60th WSC participation guidelines, which can be found here, each individual can organise at most one STS. Exceptions must be approved by the Chair of the Local Programme Committee (LPC). All requests should be sent to wsc2015@ibge.gov.br.

According to the 60th WSC participation guidelines, which can be found here, an individual can serve as Chair or Discussant in more than one session provided that there is no schedule conflict.

According to the 60th WSC participation guidelines, which can be found here, within the same session, any individual, including the session Organiser, can take up the role of either Presenter or Chair or Discussant, but should not assume any two such roles.

Submission of contributed papers is now closed.

ISI - International Statistical Institute
WSC - World Statistics Congress
IBGE - Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
ISI Associations
BS - Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
IAOS - International Association for Official Statistics
IASC - International Association for Statistical Computing
IASE - International Association for Statistics Education
IASS - International Association of Survey Statisticians
ISBIS - International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics
TIES - The International Environmetrics Society
ISI PO - International Statistical Institute Permanent Office
Other Institutions
SCB - Statistical Capacity Building Committee
Agristats - Committee on Agricultural Statistics
LifeSci - Committee for the Promotion of Statistics in the Life Sciences
IFC - Irving Fisher Committee
YS - Young Statisticians Committee
Scientific Sessions
CPS - Contributed Paper/Poster Session
IPS - lnvited Paper Session
STS - Special Topic Session
Committees
LOC - Local Organising Committee
SPC - Scientific Programme Committee
LPC - Local Programme Committee
SCC - Short Course Committee
NHC - National Honorary Committee
