Tuesday, April 5 2011, 3:30pm Hall <a href="http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/~peterh/">University of Melbourne & University of California at Davis</a> The availability of powerful computing equipment has had a dramatic impact on statistical methods and thinking, changing forever the way data are analysed. New data types, larger quantities of data, and new classes of research problem are all motivating new statistical methods. We shall give examples of each of these issues, and discuss the current and future directions of frontier problems in statistics.