The Fourth EAC-ISBA conference will be held at the Kobe University, Kobe, Japan (July 13-14, 2019). The conference serves the Eastern Asia Chapter’s purpose of promoting research and education in Bayesian statistics in the area as well as the countries nearby.

The conference program includes keynote sessions, tutorial lectures, invited sessions and a poster session. The conference has confirmed the two keynote speakers, Siddhartha Chib (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) and Hedibert Freitas Lopes (INSPER, Brazil). The two tutorial lectures will be given by Dipak K. Dey (University of Connecticut, USA) and Igor Prünster (Bocconi University, Italy).

The conference registration opened on February 1, 2019. The following is a list of important dates:

– March 15, 2019: invited session proposal submission deadline;
– March 31, 2019: early registration deadline;
– April 30, 2019: poster submission deadline;
– June 30, 2019: regular registration deadline.

The conference is now accepting the invited session proposal and poster submissions. For more information, please visit the conference website at https://eacisba2019.wordpress.com.