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3–5—Workshop on Integer-Valued
2009
mining in advertising, credit card crunch,
Time Series Modelling (WINTS09),
privacy and human rights concerns, com-
Aveiro, Portugal
bating terrorism, venture capital, video
August
This workshop will feature the latest sci-
games, politics, drug discovery, and tele-
entific developments in modeling time
16–22—International Statistical
communications. For more information,
series of counts and their applications. The
Institute 57th Biennial Session, Durban,
visit
salforddatamining.com or contact
program will cover a range of topics and
South Africa
Aaron Adams, 4740 Murphy Canyon
include five keynote lectures presented by
This session will include meetings of
Road, #200, San Diego, CA 92123; (619)
leading specialists. In addition, there will
the Bernoulli Society, the International
543-880;
aadams@salford-systems.com.
be contributed paper and poster sessions
Association for Statistical Computing,
highlighting topics of current research
the International Association of Survey 30–9/2/10—SAMSI 2009–2010
interest. Contributions with detailed case
Statisticians, the International Association Opening Workshop on Stochastic
studies are especially welcome. For more
for Official Statistics, and the International Dynamics, Research Triangle Park,
information, visit
http://sites.google.com/
Association for Statistical Education. For North Carolina
site/wints09 or contact Manuel Scotto,
more information, visit
www.cbs.nl/isi This 12-month SAMSI program is cen-
Department of Mathematics, University
or contact Shabani Mehta, 428 Prinses tered on the broad topic of stochastic
of Aveiro, Aveiro, International 3810-193,
Beatrixlaan, P.O. Box 950, Voorburg, dynamics, with particular focus on analy-
Portugal; 351234370670; wints2009@
International 2270 AZ, The Netherlands; sis, computational methods, and applica-
gmail.com.
+31-70-3375737;
isi@cbs.nl. tions of systems governed by stochastic
differential equations. Two application
7–11—RSS 2009 Conference: Statistics
17–19—Measurement, Design, and
areas to be emphasized are problems in
in a Changing Society - 175 Years of
Analysis Methods for Health Outcomes
biological sciences and dynamics of net-
Progress, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Research, Boston, Massachusetts
works. Researchers from statistics, applied
The 2009 International Conference of
Taught in an interactive classroom setting,
mathematics, mathematical biology, and
the Royal Statistical Society forms part
this program is geared toward introductory
engineering will be involved, and the
of the society’s 175th anniversary cel-
to intermediate learning levels to help par-
program will promote the opportunity
ebration. Leading international speakers
ticipants design, implement, and analyze
for interdisciplinary, methodological, and
from a range of sectors will reflect upon
outcomes studies and critically review and
theoretical research. For details, visit www.
the influence of the past, the statistical
use outcomes data for clinical decision-
samsi.info/programs/2009stochdynprogram.
methods of today, and future develop-
making, health-care planning, and technol-
shtml or contact Terri Nida, P.O. Box
ments. Keynote speakers include Sir David
ogy development. For more information,
14006, RTP, NC 27709; (919) 685-9324;
Cox, Denise Lievesley, Sally Morton, and
visit
www.hsph.harvard.edu/ccpe/programs/
tnida@samsi.info.
Stephen Stigler. There will be a program
MDA.html or contact Continuing
for career-young statisticians, and social
Education, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston,
events during the conference will include
MA 02115; (617) 384-8692; contedu@
September
a welcome reception at Edinburgh Castle
hsph.harvard.edu.
1–3—New Zealand Statistical and the society’s anniversary dinner at Our
Association 2009 Conference, Dynamic Earth. For more information,
23–25—Salford Data Mining
Wellington, New Zealand visit
www.rss.org.uk/rss2009 or contact
Conference, San Diego, California
The School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Paul Gentry, 12 Errol Street, London,
This conference is oriented to real-world
Operations Research at Victoria University International EC1Y 8LX, UK; 020 7614
applications, and all attendees will get
of Wellington will host the conference. 3918;
conference@rss.org.uk.
a sense of notable uses of data mining.
An optional one-day workshop on semi-
Keynotes will discuss the role of data
parametric regression, to be given by Matt
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