CALENDAR OF EVENTS
15—ENAR Workshop for Junior
F
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Researchers, Arlington, Virginia
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career development of junior investigators
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by bringing them together with a prestigious
panel of senior investigators. The format
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includes four theme sessions providing
sections, chapters, or committees
important information about academic
growth, including publishing, grant writ-
➤ Indicates events posted since the previous issue
ing, interdisciplinary collaborations, and
the promotion process; a roundtable lunch
with discussions about professional academic
life; and dinner. The workshop immedi-
ately precedes the ENAR/IMS meeting;
2008
4–7—8th German Open
all participants are encouraged to stay and
Conference on Probability
attend. For more information, visit www.
and Statistics, Aachen, Germany
enar.org or contact Brent Coull, Department
February This conference will provide an internation-
of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public
al forum for presentation and discussion
Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston,
28–3/2—Emerging Directions in
of new results in probability and statistics.
MA 02115; (617) 432-2376; bcoull@hsph.
Probability and Statistics, Notre
Participants from universities, business,
harvard.edu.
Dame, Indiana
administration, and industry are welcome.
This workshop will bring together research-
Plenary speakers are N. Balakrishnan of
19–21—IAENG International
ers working on the frontiers of probability
McMaster University, Steven N. Evans
Conference on Data Mining and
and mathematical statistics. Emphasis will be
of the University of California, Berkeley,
Applications 2008, Hong Kong, China
on expository lectures that survey the “state
Frank den Hollander of Universiteit Leiden,
This conference is held under the
of the art” in a particular sub-area with the
Eva Riccomagno of Politecnico di Torino,
International Multiconference of Engineers
specific goal of communicating and promot-
and Aad van der Vaart of Vrije Universiteit
and Computer Scientists IMECS 2008.
ing interaction with scientists, social scien-
Amsterdam. Session topics include sto-
Topics will include statistical data min-
tists, and engineers who wish to make use
chastic analysis; limit theorems and large
ing tools, soft computing data mining
of methods and concepts from probability
deviations; stochastic geometry, spatial sta-
tools, and data mining applications. For
and statistics. For more information, visit
tistics, and image analysis; random discrete
more information, visit
www.iaeng.org/
cam.nd.edu/upcoming-conferences/spring2008
structures and analysis of algorithms; and
IMECS2008/ICDMA2008.html or contact
or contact Lisa Tranberg, 255 Hurley
stochastic processes. For more informa-
William Young, IAENG Secretariat, Unit
Building, University of Notre Dame,
tion, visit
gocps2008.rwth-aachen.de or
1, 1/F, 37–39 Hung To Road, Hong Kong,
Notre Dame, IN 46556; (574) 631-4178;
contact Udo Kamps, Institute of Statistics,
International HK, Hong Kong;
Tranberg.1@nd.edu.
Aachen, International 52056, Germany;
(852) 27820197;
imecs@iaeng.org.
gocps2008@stochastik.rwth-aachen.de.
March
5–9—National Business and Economics
April
3–5—CMOR Respondent Cooperation
Society Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii
Workshop, Las Vegas, Nevada
NBES is a multidisciplinary academic
14–16—Bayesian Analysis of
CMOR’s 7th Annual “Real Solutions” to
association that focuses on promoting inter-
High-Dimensional Data, Coventry,
Respondent Cooperation Workshop will
disciplinary research of both a theoretical
United Kingdom
provide research, findings, and advances in
and practical nature. It includes scholars
The aim of this workshop—a satel-
improving research respondent cooperation
from finance, accounting, marketing, man-
lite event within “Statistical Theory and
and nonresponse to tackle issues of nonre-
agement, information systems, operations
Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional
sponse bias and survey nonresponse. For
research, economics, public administration,
Data” of the Isaac Newton Institute
more information, visit
www.cmor.org or
psychology, and related areas. Its goal is to
for Mathematical Sciences—is to high-
contact Patrick Glaser, 110 National Drive,
broaden the expertise of business school
light recent methodological and applied
2nd Floor, Glastonbury, CT 06033;
academics and other professionals by pro-
advances in the Bayesian analysis of com-
(212) 480-2464;
pglaser@cmor.org.
moting access to research and ideas in all
plex data. Abstracts for contributed talks
disciplines. For more information, visit
and posters are due by January 25, 2008.
www.nbesonline.com or contact Michael
Participants also are welcome to take part
Bond, Department of Finance, Cleveland
in the last day (April 17) of the parallel
State University, Cleveland, OH 44115;
workshop on composite likelihood meth-
(216) 226-7990;
info@nbesonline.com.
ods (http://go.warwick.ac.uk/complik2008),
also held at Warwick. The two workshops
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