In addition to the invited sessions, special invited speakers include:

• David Brillinger, University of California, Berkeley  
• Andreas Buja, University of Pennsylvania
• Debbie Dupuis, HEC, Montreal
• John Kent, University of Leeds
• Leonard Stefanski, North Carolina State University

    Invited Sessions

    Robust regularization and model selection (Croux/Perrotta)

• Olcay Arslan, Ankara University, Turkey
  
• Christophe Croux, Catholic University of Lueven, Belgium
  
• Peter Filzmoser, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Stefan Van Aelst, Ghent University, Belgium.
  

    Rank/M--based methods and applications (He)

• Steve Portnoy, University of Illinois, USA
• Davy Paindavine, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
• Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  

     Multiple comparison problems (Kafadar)

• Karen Kafadar, University of Indiana, USA
• Jichun Xie, Temple University, USA
  
• Jessi Cisewski, University of North Carolina and CMU, USA
  

    Robustness in high dimensional data  (Genton/Ma)

• Xinwei Deng, Virginia Tech University, USA
• Bing Li, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Xiangrong Yin, University of Georgia, USA
• Jianhui Zhou, University of Virginia, USA  

    Computational statistics/Bootstrap (Bianco/Boente)

• Claudio Agostinelli, University of Venice, Italy
• Andreas Christmann, University of Bayreuth
• Victor Yohai, University of Buenos Aires
  
• Rubén Zamar, University of British Columbia

    Robust analysis of functional and complex structures (Bianco/Boente)

• Sara Lopez Pintado, Columbia University, USA
• Steve Marron, University of North Carolina, USA 
• Ricardo Maronna, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

    Recent advances in quantile regression (Wang)

• Xuming He, University of Michigan, USA
• Ingrid Van Keilegom, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
• Roger Koenker, University of Illinois, USA 
• Yanyuan Ma, Texas A&M University, USA

    Divergence measures, statistics and their applications I and II (Agostinelli/Pardo)

• Chunming Zhang, University of Wisconsin, USA  
• Nirian Martin, University Carlos II, Madrid, Spain 
• Michel Broniatowski, l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France
• Maria Dolores Gamero, University of Servilla, Spain
• Marianthi Markatou, IBM, Yorktown, NY, USA
• Anand Vidyashankar, George Mason Univeristy, USA 
• Ayanendranath Basu, ISI, India
• Wolfgang Stummer, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany

    Mulitvariate Nonparametric Methods (Oja)

• Robert Serfling, University of Texas, Arlington, USA 
• Jana Jureckova, Charles University, The Czech Republic 
• Georgy Shevlyakov,  St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia 
• Denis Larocque, HEC Montreal, Canada

     Generalized linear models (Saha)

• Samiran Sinha, Texas A&M University, USA
• Hua Yun Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Krishna Saha, Central Connecticut State University, USA

    R/SAS and robustness  (Filzmoser/Luta)

• Colin Chen, Wells Fargo, Washington, DC, USA
• Manuel Koller, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
• Guixian Lin, SAS, USA  
  
• Matias Salibian-Barrera, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Valentin Todorov, UNIDO, Vienna, Austria