Main Speakers:

David Aldous (University of California, Berkeley). (Kolmogorov Lecture)
Title: Scaling exponents and random combinatorial optimization: fifteen variations on the Beardwood-Halton-Hammersley theorem.

Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud). (Lévy Lecture)
Title: Brownian loop-soups, SLE and Conformal Field Theory

Jun Liu (Harvard University). (Bernoulli Lecture)
Title: Finding short repetitive patterns in genomic sequences

Steffen Lauritzen (Aalborg University). (Laplace Lecture)
Title: Estimation of structure in graphical models

Iain Johnstone (Stanford University). (IMS Wald Lecture,3 sessions)
Wald Lectures: Growing Gaussian Models

Peter Bickel (University of California, Berkeley). (IMS Rietz Lecture)
Title: The frontiers of statistics and computer science

IMS Medallion Lecturers:

Vladimir Koltchinskii (University of New Mexico)
Title: Data Dependent Complexities and Oracle Inequalities in Statistical Learning Theory

Evarist Giné (University of Connecticut)
Title: Recent results on asymptotics of kernel density estimators

Cun-Hui Zhang (Rutgers University).
Title: Recent results in noparametric regression and empirical Bayes

Alison Etheridge (Oxford University)
Title: Some mathematical problems from population genetics

Dominique Picard (Université Paris VII)
Title: What do we learn from maxisets?