The first session consists of two talks. The first one, Professor Bartoszewicz's contributions to mathematical statistics and its applications, will be delivered by Dr Piotr Nowak, a Ph.D. student of Bartoszewicz, who will present the most significant research achievements of his late supervisor.
The second speaker of the session is Professor Moshe Shaked (University of Arizona, USA) who will read one hour plenary lecture entitled The dispersive stochastic orders: univariate and multivariate.
The second session on stochastic orders, organized and chaired by Professor Shaked, consists of 4 invited talks. The speakers of the session and the titles of their lectures are following:
Professor Abdulhamid Alzaid (King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia): On ordering the convolution of the difference of Bernoulli random variables,Professor Peng Zhao (Jiangsu Normal University, China): Linear combinations of random variables and their applications.
Biography of Professor Jarosław Bartoszewicz (1945-2013)