IMS Annual Meeting 2026

We are delighted to inform you that the IMS Annual Meeting 2026 will take place in Salzburg, Austria, on 6-9 July 2026 at Salzburg Congress.

Salzburg is renowned as the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and Christian Doppler and the picturesque setting for the film "The Sound of Music". As the city of music, it is the home of the Salzburg Festival, which is among the most famous annual Western classical music festivals in the world. It will kick off shortly after the IMS Annual Meeting.

Salzburg is also a spectacularly scenic city, with beautiful surroundings for almost any type of outdoor activity. An ideal destination for a summer visit, and centrally located in Europe. The conference will cover a broad range of topics from statistics and probability, as well as the IMS Wald Lecture by Tilmann Gneiting, Medaillion Award Lectures by Ian McKeague, Bodhisattva Sen, and Jelle Goeman, and the IMS Presidential Address by Kavita Ramanan, in addition to several other plenary, invited, and contributed presentations.

Conference participants will be treated to a classical chamber concert, by joint Invitation of the Federal State of Salzburg and the City of Salzburg.

The IMS Annual Meeting 2026 in Salzburg is organized in close partnership with the university and its Data Science, Statistics, Stochastics group at the Department of Artifical Intelligence and Human Interfaces. Salzburg's university was founded in 1622 by Prince-Archbishop Paris Lodron and thus bears the name Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS).

We hope you will be able to join us!

Kavita Ramanan, IMS President
Genevera Allen, Program Chair: Statistics
Remco van der Hofstad, Program Chair: Probability
Arne Bathke, Local Host Program Chair