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21–23—ENBIS-9, Gothenburg, Sweden
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This year’s annual conference of the
European Network for Business and AR
Industrial Statistics will focus on quantita-
Frontiers of Interface Between Statistics and Sciences
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tive process analysis for creation of business
December 30, 2009 – January 2, 2010
VENTS
opportunities and solutions. For details, University of Hyderabad campus, Hyderabad, India
visit
www.enbis.org or contact Kerstin
The conference is in honor of C. R. Rao, the living legend who will be
Vännman, Department of Mathematics,
attaining the age of 90 in 2010. The objective of the conference is to highlight
Luleå, International 97187, Sweden;
the importance of statistics in knowledge discovery in the sciences.
+46920491127;
kerstin.vannman@ltu.se.
24—The 17th Federal Forecasters
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
Conference, Washington, DC
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) y Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
The conference, themed “Forecasting and
American Statistical Association (ASA) y International Biometric Society (IBC)
Risk,” seeks to highlight how forecasters
International Indian Statistical Association (IISA)
account for low-probability, but high-
cost events. Participants will review how
forecasters account for risk in economics,
energy supply, food supply, health care
optimized complex sampling. It is intend-
http://bayesml1.stat.cmu.edu or contact Ziv
and epidemics, transportation disruptions,
ed for epidemiologists who are interested Bar-Joseph, Wean Hall 4107, Machine
and natural disasters. The conference will
in methodological problems and for bio- Learning Department, Pittsburgh, PA
examine the role of federal forecasters
statisticians at various levels. Examples will 15213; (412) 268-8595;
zivbj@cs.cmu.edu.
in the evolution of public policies that
deal with pharmacoepidemiology, studies
account for these rare events. For more
of gene-environment interactions, cancer,
information, visit
www.federalforecasters.org
20–22—International Conference on
and cardiovascular epidemiology. For
or contact Jeff Busse, 12201 Sunrise Valley
Modeling, Simulation, and Control
more information, visit
www.inserm.fr/fr/
Drive, MS988, Reston, VA 20192;
2009, San Francisco, California
rh/ecole_inserm/ateliers or contact Cindy
(703) 648-4914;
jbusse@usgs.gov.
Lincy, 101 rue de Tolbiac, Paris cedex 13,
This conference is held under the World
International 75654, France; +33 1 44 23
Congress on Engineering and Computer
Science WCECS 2009, organized by the
*26—2009 New England Symposium
62 03;
ateliers@inserm.fr.
International Association of Engineers,
on Statistics in Sports, Cambridge,
a nonprofit international association
Massachusetts
*8–9—53rd Annual Fall Technical
for engineers and computer scientists.
Statisticians and quantitative analysts con- Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
All submitted papers will be under peer
nected with sports teams, sports media, and
Cosponsored by the Physical and review, and accepted papers will be pub-
universities will meet to discuss common
Engineering Sciences and Quality and lished in the conference proceedings. For
problems in statistical modeling and the
Productivity Sections of ASA, as well as more information, visit
www.iaeng.org/
analysis of sports data. The symposium for-
the Chemical and Process Industry and WCECS2009/ICMSC2009.html or con-
mat will include invited talks, a poster ses-
Statistics Divisions of ASQ, this conference tact IAENG Secretariat, Unit 1, 1/F, 37-39
sion, and a panel discussion. The proceed-
will be held at the Hilton Indianapolis. For Hung To Road, Hong Kong, International
ings of the symposium will be published in
more information, visit www.amstat-online. HK, Hong Kong; (852) 3169-3427;
a special issue of the Journal of Quantitative
org/sections/qp/2009-ftc-call-for-papers.pdf
wcecs@iaeng.org.
Analysis in Sports. For details, visit www.
or contact Donald McCormack, 2901
amstat.org/chapters/boston/nessis09.html
Oakhaven Drive, Austin, TX 78704;
or contact Mark Glickman, EN Rogers
21–23—2009 Nonclinical Biostatistics
don.mccomack@jmp.com.
Memorial Hospital (152), 200 Springs
Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
Road, Bedford, MA 01730;
The first conference in the United States
(781) 687-2875;
mg@bu.edu.
›› 15–17—Case Studies in Bayesian
to be completely devoted to nonclinical
Statistics and Machine Learning,
biostatistics will provide opportunities
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
to present and discuss current scientific
This workshop will focus on applications issues relevant to nonclinical biostatistics.
October
of Bayesian statistics and machine learn- Registration and a call for abstracts opened
ing to problems in science and technology, February 2, 2009. For more information,
1–2—Recent Study Designs in featuring contributed presentations and visit
www.ncb2009.org or contact Mathis
Epidemiology (INSERM Workshop discussions of substantial research, shorter Thoma, 655 Huntington Ave., Boston,
198), Saint Raphael, France presentations by young researchers, and MA 02115;
info@ncb2009.org.
The aim of this workshop is to discuss
poster presentations. The workshop builds
recent epidemiological designs, with
on the Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics
observation limited to cases or with
Workshop. For more information, visit
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