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8–9—Statistical Modeling for Biological
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Systems: A Conference in Memory of
Andrei Yakovlev, Rochester, New York
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The Department of Biostatistics and
AMATYC/CAUSE Summer Institute
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Computational Biology will host a scien-
GAISEing Beyond the Crossroads:
tific conference to honor late chairman
VENTS
Improving Instruction in Introductory Statistics
Andrei Yakovlev, who led a major expan-
sion of the department, tripling its size For the second time, CAUSE is cosponsoring a Summer Institute
and greatly increasing its scope, while with the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges
vigorously pursuing research programs in (AMATYC). This year's institute is in Boulder, Colorado, at the National
a number of areas at the intersection of Center for Atmospheric Research, July 6 –10. There is no workshop
mathematics, statistics, and biology. Many
registration fee. Participants must be members of AMATYC and
of Yakovlev’s collaborators have accepted
are responsible for their own transportation. CAUSE will provide all
invitations to participate as have other dis-
workshop materials and lunch during the workshop. Lodging will be
tinguished researchers who have worked in
provided at the Boulder Inn, with CAUSE paying $75 per night and
related areas. There will be opportunities
participants paying $25 per night toward the cost of their rooms.
to present papers, in poster format, related
Participants are asked to bring a laptop. The institute consists of four
to Yakovlev’s interests. It is intended to
workshops—led by Rob Gould, Brian Jersky, and Karen Kinard—on
publish the papers presented in a peer-
topics such as using assessment, developing activities, teaching
reviewed commemorative volume of
with real data, and using technology to improve understanding.
proceedings. For more information, visit
www.urmc.rochester.edu/biostat/ayconference Please visit www.causeweb.org/workshop/boulder to register.
or contact Cheryl Cicero, 601 Elmwood
Ave., Box 630, Rochester, NY 14624;
cheryl_cicero@urmc.rochester.edu.
8–10—Workshop on Parameter
of Southampton), Timothy Gregoire for leading experts and young research-
Estimation for Dynamical Systems,
(Yale University), Carl Erik Särndal ers to discuss recent progress in the field,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
(University of Montréal), and Yves Tillè exchange ideas, and make informal con-
The aim of the workshop is to provide a
(Université de Neuchatel). For details, visit tacts. Although robust statistics is the core
meeting place for researchers in this new
www.unisi.it/eventi/dmq2009 or contact of the conference, emphasis will be placed
and challenging area of statistical research.
Lorenzo Fattorini, University of Siena, on interdisciplinary research and the inter-
They will review different methods used
Via Valdimontone 1, Siena, International action between theory and practice. For
to tackle the problem, assess the achieved
53100, Italy; itacosm09@unisi.it. more information, visit www.icors2009.
progress, and identify future research
unipr.it or contact Claudio Agostinelli,
directions. Invited speakers include 10–12—NBBC09 - 2nd Nordic-Baltic
San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873, Venice,
Nicolas Brunel (Évry), David Campbell Biometric Conference, Tartu, Estonia
International 30121, Italy; +39 041
(Vancouver), Edward Ionides (Ann Keynote lectures will be given by Martyn
2347446; claudio@unive.it.
Arbor), David Lunn (London), Kimberley Plummer, Nanny Wermuth, and Eric
McAuley (Kingston), Eric Mjolsness Renshaw. There also will be invited ses- 15–17—Second International
(Irvine), James Ramsay (Montréal), sions covering causal inference in genet- Workshop in Sequential Methodologies,
Eberhard Voit (Atlanta), and Victor Zavala ics, demography and statistics, spatial Troyes, France
(Argonne). For more information, visit statistics, life course epidemiology, and IWSM is organized every two years and
www.eurandom.tue.nl/workshops/2009/ bioinformatics. A pre-conference course covers all aspects of sequential methodolo-
PEDS/PEDS_main.htm or contact Shota on causal inference will be given June gies. Particular themes will include optimal
Gugushvili, Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, 9–10. For more information, visit www. stopping, sequential analysis, sequential
International 5612 AZ, The Netherlands; ms.ut.ee/NBBC09 or contact Krista Fischer, estimation, hypotheses testing, change-
+31 40 2478113; gugushvili@eurandom. Robinson Way, Cambridge, International point detection and isolation, mathemati-
tue.nl. CB20SR, UK; +44 1223 763853; cal finance, quality control, clinical trials,
Krista.Fischer@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk. sequential methods in signal/image pro-
10–12—ITACOSM09 - First ITAlian
cessing, sensors networks, surveillance and
COnference on Survey Methodology, 14–19—International Conference on
monitoring, fault detection and isolation,
Siena, Tuscany, Italy Robust Statistics, Parma, Italy
and teaching sequential methodologies.
This conference serves as a scientific forum The aim of this conference is to bring
For more information, visit www.utt.fr/
on development, testing, and application together established and young researchers
iwsm2009 or contact Igor Nikiforov, UTT,
of survey sampling methodologies in eco- from around the world who are actively
12 rue Marie Curie BP 2060, Troyes,
nomics, social and demographic sciences, working on and/or interested in the
International 10010, France; +33 3 25 71
official statistics, and studies on biological theory, application, and overall develop-
56 78; Igor.Nikiforov@utt.fr.
and environmental phenomena. Keynote ment of robust statistics and related fields.
speakers include Yves Berger (University The conference will provide a forum
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