Press Release
International Conference in the city of
Bangalore
A three-day international
conference on “Quality and Reliability Engineering” (ICQRE 2011) organized by
Bangalore Centre of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) began this morning at
Hotel Atria, Bangalore. Prof. T.S. Arthanari, Department of Information Systems
and Operations Management (Business & Economics), University of Auckland,
New Zealand inaugurated the conference in the presence of several distinguished
scientists from India and overseas as well as representatives from various
industries. While inaugurating the conference, Prof. Arthanari focused on the
role of SQC & OR division which could play towards improving quality of
life in particular. He felt that it is imperative to contribute to societal
quality for all citizens of India in the present day context. He also stressed
the importance for the applied research to enable the industries to produce
high quality products/ services at low cost making optimum uses of available
resources.
Prof. A.K. Chaudhuri,
Chairman of the organizing committee, spoke on the importance for holding such
interactive conference so that in one hand, the industry people could
understand the applied research being carried out by the scientists across the
globe and on the other hand, the scientists could understand as to which problems
from the industry require innovative solutions from the academics. Boby John,
organizing secretary of ICQRE 2011, highlighted the objectives of the
conference and felt that the conference would facilitate sharing of research
based knowledge relating to quality control, quality management, process
performance modeling and reliability engineering between the academicians and
industry people. Somnath Ray, Head,
SQC&OR Unit of the ISI, Bangalore gave the vote of thanks.
Internationally acclaimed scientists
like Prof. Jeff Y. Lei (The University of Texas, Arlington), Prof. William Q.
Meeker (Iowa State University, USA), Prof. Raghu Kakkar, (National Institute of
Standards and Technology, USA) and Prof. T.S. Arthanari, Department of
Information Systems and Operations Management (Business & Economics),
University of Auckland, New Zealand participated in the first day’s proceedings
and delivered keynote addresses. Representatives from various industries were
present on this occasion.
Several other renowned
scientists and experts like Prof. Shiegeru Yamada, (Tottori University, Japan)
Prof. Alex Douglas (Liverpool Business School, UK), Prof. Gopinath
Chattopadhyay (CQ University, Australia), Prof. Martin Newby (City University,
London), Prof. Min Xie (City University, Hong Kong), Prof. Peihua Qiu
(University of Minnesota, USA) and several other eminent academicians of
various research institutions from abroad and India are participating in the
conference and will deliver keynote addresses in the remaining two days of the
international conference.
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