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Annual Winter Workshop: Categorical Symposium on Mathematical Methods
Data Analysis, Gainesville, Florida
1–4—Statistical Modelling and
Applied to the Sciences, San Jose, Costa
This workshop will focus on recent devel-
Inference Conference to Celebrate
Rica
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C opments in methodology for categorical Murray Aitkin’s 70th Birthday, Brisbane, SIMMAC will cover data analysis, mul-
data analysis, including high-dimensional
Australia
tivariate statistics, clustering and classifi-
data, Bayesian inference, and clustering
The purpose of this conference is to dis-
cation, probability, stochastic processes,
and missing data, as well as applications
cuss the current and future state of statisti-
financial mathematics, stochastic con-
to rapidly developing disciplines such as
cal modeling and inference. It is also to
trol, optimization, operations research,
statistical genetics. For more information,
celebrate Murray’s involvement in these
approximation, numerical analysis,
visit
www.stat.ufl.edu or contact Robyn
fields. All contributions are welcome, as
dynamic systems, differential equations,
Crawford, P.O. Box 118545, 103 Griffin-
either read papers, posters, or short presen-
modeling, biomathematics, and applica-
Floyd Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611; (352)
tations in the final open session. Preference
tions. For more information, visit www.
392-1941;
robyn@stat.ufl.edu.
may be given to historical surveys of the
cimpa.ucr.ac.cr/simmac.html or contact
development of modeling and/or infer-
Javier Trejos, C.U. Rodrigo Facio, San
27–29—2010 Bayesian Biostatistics
ence; surveys of current methods and their
Jose, International 02060, Costa Rica;
Conference, Houston, Texas
advantages and limitations; reports of
00.506.2511-5889; simmac.cimpa@
Current and prospective users of Bayesian
current work in these fields; predictions
ucr.ac.cr.
biostatistics are invited to join experts in
of future trends (with credibility bands);
the field for a three-day conference that
and discussion of foundational issues in
includes short courses and invited presen-
likelihood, Bayes, frequentist, and sur- March
tations. For more information, visit
vey sampling inference. Contributions
biostatistics.mdanderson.org/BBC2010 or
related to Murray’s involvement in these
17–19—IAENG International
contact Lydia Davis, 1515 Holcombe
fields are also welcome. For details, visit
Conference on Data Mining and
Blvd., Unit 1409, Houston, TX 77030;
www.aitkinconference.scitech.qut.edu.au
Applications 2010, Hong Kong, China
(713) 794-4142;
lbdavis@mdanderson.org.
or contact Clair Alston, GPO Box 2434,
This conference will be held under
Brisbane, International 4001, Australia;
the International MultiConference of
+61 731381287;
c.alston@qut.edu.au.
Engineers and Computer Scientists 2010.
The IMECS 2010 is organized by the
International Association of Engineers
(IAENG) and serves as a good platform
for researchers. For more information, visit
www.iaeng.org/IMECS2010/ICDMA2010.
html or contact IAENG Secretariat, Unit
1, 1/F, 37-39 Hung To Road, Hong Kong,
International HK, Hong Kong; (852)
3169-3427;
imecs@iaeng.org.
17–20—Conference on Frontier of
Statistical Decisionmaking and Bayesian
Analysis
This conference consists of plenary, invit-
ed, and poster sessions. Plenary speakers
include Donald Berry, Lawrence Brown,
Persi Diaconis, Stephen Fienberg, and
Alan Gelfand. The conference will provide
an overview of the past, present, and future
developments of statistical decisionmaking
and Bayesian analysis. Prior to the confer-
ence, short courses on various statistical
topics will be offered. For more informa-
tion, visit http://bergerconference2010.utsa.
edu or contact Keying Ye at Keying.Ye@
utsa.edu.
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