SECTION NEWS
Biometrics
JSM Lineup Includes Short Course,
Host of Invited Sessions
Edited by Ralitza Gueorguieva, Biometrics Section Publications Officer
T
he theme of this year’s Joint an exciting program of invited
Statistical Meetings—to take place sessions spanning a range of topics
August 3–7 in Denver, Colorado— in biostatistics, including the following:
is “Communicating Statistics: Speaking
Out and Reaching Out.” The Biometrics
Time Series Analysis via Mechanistic
Section is proud to cosponsor a short
Models, organized by Ed Ionides,
course on August 3 and a number of invit-
University of Michigan
ed sessions.
08
Scott C. Schmidler, assistant professor
A New Paradigm of Statistical Data
of statistical science at Duke University,
Analysis: ‘Omics’ Data, organized
will present the one-day short course on
by Susmita Datta, University of
statistical challenges in proteomics. It will
Louisville
provide an introduction to the technolo-
New Statistical and Computational
gies and statistical issues arising in structur-
Methods for Analysis of Genomic Data
JSM 2009
al and functional proteomic studies. Topics
with a Graphical Structure, organized by
to be covered include an overview of exper-
It’s already time to start thinking
Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
imental data sources, statistical methods about invited sessions for next
and challenges in structural proteomics,
Statistical Methods for Multivariate
year’s Joint Statistical Meetings,
and statistical problems in functional pro-
Dental Data, organized by Tom Braun,
which will be held August
teomics. The goal is to introduce academic
University of Michigan
2–6 in Washington, DC. Anyone
and industrial statisticians to challenges and
interested in organizing an
opportunities emerging in the application
Challenges of Statistical Inference in
invited session, or who has ideas
of statistical methods to modern proteomic
‘Large p, Small n’ Problems, organized
for one, should contact 2009
studies. Lecture notes, complemented with
by Annie Qu, Oregon State University
software demonstrations and data analysis
Program Chair Wensheng Guo at
examples, will be used. Directing a Biostatistics Core in
wguo@mail.med.upenn.edu.
Schmidler is a core faculty member Biomedical Research, organized by
A typical invited session
in the Duke Program in Computational Michael Hudgens, The University of
consists of three 30-minute talks
Biology and Bioinformatics and Duke North Carolina
Training Program in Structural Biology
followed by a 10-minute invited
and Biophysics. He has extensive research
The Biometrics Section would like
discussion and 10 minutes of
experience in statistical bioinformatics,
to thank Mahlet Tadesse, our JSM floor discussion. However, other
computational biology, and computation-
Continuing Education chair, and Debashis formats are possible. The 2008
al chemistry, with a particular interest in
Ghosh, our JSM program chair, for the
program is a good source for
applications to structural and functional
wonderful job they did organizing the
examples. Decisions will be
proteomics, molecular biophysics, and
course and sessions. Visit www.amstat.
made in August, so don’t delay.
physical chemistry. In addition, he has
org/meetings/jsm/2008/onlineprogram for
significant expertise in Bayesian statistics,
updates on locations and times. Also, ideas for short courses
statistical mechanics, and computational
should be sent to 2009–2010
statistics, with emphasis on Monte Carlo
Member Initiatives
Continuing Education Chair
and dynamic simulation methods. A section subcommittee was formed in Gerald Heatley at jerry.heatley@
July 2007 called the Member Initiatives
thoratec.com.
Invited Sessions
Subcommittee. You may recall seeing a
In addition to the short course, members request for proposals from this subcom-
of the Biometrics Section are sponsoring mittee in October. For the past few years,
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