C
13–19—AACR Cancer Biostatistics ➤20–26—BIT’s 1st World Summit of Alston, School of Mathematical Sciences,
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Workshop, Sonoma, California Antivirals, Kunming, China Queensland University of Technology,
For information, visit
www.aacr.org or con- This is a focused event for updating the GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, International AR
tact Mark Mendenhall, 615 Chestnut Street, current advances in worldwide R&D of 4001, Australia;
isba08@qut.edu.au.
OF E
17th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106-4404; novel antiviral therapeutics. Attendees
(267) 646-660;
mendenhall@aacr.org. will represent top-level decisionmakers
VENT
23–26—17th International Workshop
from leading biotech, pharmaceutical, and
on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS’08, S
14–19—7th World Congress in
health care organizations. The conference
Tomar, Portugal
Probability and Statistics, Singapore
also will provide an ideal forum for the
For more information about this conference,
The World Congress in Probability and
promotion of relevant companies, prod-
being held in honor of T. W. Anderson’s
Statistics is a major international event
ucts, technologies, and services. For more
90th birthday, visit
www.ipt.pt/iwms08 or
in probability and statistics held every
information, visit www.bitlifesciences.
contact Francisco Carvalho, Estrada da Serra
four years. It features the latest scientific
com/wsa2008 or contact Chris Han, 26
- Quinta do Contador, Tomar, International
developments in the fields of probabil-
Gaoneng Street, Room 405, Dalian High-
2300-313 TOMAR, Portugal; +351 249
ity and statistics and their applications.
Tech Zone, Dalian, International LN
328 100;
fpcarvalho@ipt.pt.
The program will cover a range of topics
116025, China; 0086-411-84799479;
and feature more than a dozen keynote
chris@bitlifesciences.com.
24–26—Current Trends and Challenges
lectures presented by leading specialists.
in Model Selection and Related Areas,
In addition, there will be invited paper 21–25—9th World Meeting of the
Vienna, Austria
sessions highlighting topics of current International Society for Bayesian
This workshop will provide a forum
research interest and many contributed Analysis, Hamilton Island, Australia
for presentation and discussion of cur-
talks and posters. For more informa- ISBA 2008 will combine an excellent
rent trends and challenging problems in
tion, visit
www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/ scientific program—including five key-
model selection and related shrinkage
wc2008/index.htm or contact Irene Tan, note speakers, 90 oral presentations,
methods. Invited speakers include Yannick
Department of Statistics and Applied three parallel sessions, and two poster
Baraud, Ruudy Beran, Ed George, Patrik
Probability, 6 Science Drive 2, Faculty of evenings—with an active social sched-
Guggenberger, Ching-Kang Ing, Paul
Science, National University of Singapore, ule. For details, visit www.maths.qut.
Kabaila, Gabor Lugosi, and Yuhong Yang.
Singapore, International 117546,
edu.au/asba/docs/isba08 or contact Clair
Contributed presentations are welcome. For
Singapore;
wc2008_general@nus.edu.sg.
15–17—LASR 2008: The Art and
Science of Statistical Bioinformatics,
Leeds, United Kingdom
The 27th Leeds Annual Statistical Research
workshop will continue to explore the
LASR themes of statistical bioinformatics,
shape and image analysis, and interdisci-
plinary statistics. For details, visit
www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2008 or contact
Stuart Barber, Department of Statistics,
Leeds, International LS2 9JT, UK;
+44(0)1133435146; workshop@maths.
leeds.ac.uk.
➤16–18—APA Advanced Training
Institute: Geographic Information
Systems for Behavioral Research, Santa
Barbara, California
This course introduces the science and
technologies of Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) to psychologists and other
behavioral scientists. There will be morning
presentations by GIS experts and afternoon
lab sessions that focus on technical aspects
of GIS. For more information, visit www.
apa.org/science/ati.html or contact Nicolle
Singer, 750 1st Street NE, Washington, DC
20002; (202) 336-6000;
nsinger@apa.org.
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