The theme of the IAOS Conference in Shanghai 2008 is Smart Data, Innovative Uses – Reshaping Official Statistics. An integral part of the Conference is also the 26th biennial conference of the SCORUS, a standing committee of IAOS on regional and urban statistics.

This year's conference theme is Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Statistical Techniques. The major concentration of the conference's academic activities will be in mathematical and statistical sciences including, but not limited to, Actuarial and Financial Mathematics, Statistics and...