In keeping with the long tradition of previous conferences, this convention is dedicated to all areas of mathematical and statistical sciences. In addition to traditional theoretical/applied areas, interdisciplinary research would be encouraged and promoted. Historically these meetings have concentrated in the following areas of scholarship: applied and theoretical statistics, Bayesian statistics, bioinformatics, biostatistics, combinatorics, computer and information sciences, design and analysis of experiments , ergodic theory, functional analysis, graph theory, multivariate analysis, number theory, partial differential equations and topology.