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opportunities; and provide an atmo- offered. Contributed paper abstracts may analysis, fractal methods, and the
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sphere that aids the interaction of young be submitted to Minge Xie at icsa2008@ discovery of power law structure. For
researchers and senior colleagues. Some
stat.rutgers.edu. The symposium also will more information, visit
www.apa.org/
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travel funds will be available. All partici- sponsor student awards and travel grants. science/ati.html or contact Nicolle Singer,
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pants are encouraged to present posters For more information, visit stat.rutgers. 750 1st Street NE, Washington, OH
involving new methodology, investigation edu/icsa2008 or contact Jun Zhao, 56 20002; (202) 336-6000;
nsinger@apa.org.
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of existing methods, or application of Livingston Avenue, Roseland, NJ 07068;
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state-of-the-art analytical techniques. For (973) 324-6602;
j.zhao@organonusa.com.
11–13—Graybill Conference VII
more information, visit http://sand.stat.
- Biopharmaceutical Statistics, Fort
cmu.edu or contact Cathy Schaefer, 132D
➤8–11—Southern Regional Council on Collins, Colorado
Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University,
Statistics, Summer Research Conference, Graybill Conference VII will focus on
Pittsburgh, PA 15213; (412) 268-5100;
Charleston, South Carolina biopharmaceutical statistics and include
cathysch@stat.cmu.edu.
This conference is designed to facilitate invited sessions and short courses bringing
interaction between junior and senior together leading researchers in the fields
➤30–31—Statistics: Theory and researchers. Contributed poster presenta- of clinical and nonclinical statistics and
Practice, Madison, Wisconsin tions from graduate students and junior statisticians with statistical programmers
We will celebrate the career of Richard faculty are especially encouraged. Keynote and data managers interested in learning
A. Johnson and the contributions of all speakers include Raymond Carroll, about current work in these fields.
the students, colleagues, and collabora- Malay Ghosh, Michael Kosorock, Peter Keynote speakers will be Bob O’Neill,
tors who have enriched his 42 years at Lachenbruch, Xihong Lin, Thomas L. J. Wei, Christy Chuang-Stein, and
Wisconsin. For details and registration Louis, and Pranab Sen. Grant funding is Janet Wittes. For details, visit www.stat.
forms, visit
www.stat.wisc.edu or con- anticipated to support students and junior
colostate.edu/graybillconference or contact
tact Richard Johnson, 1300 University researchers. For more information, visit Naitee Ting, Pfizer Inc., Global Research
Avenue, Madison, WI 53706; (608) 262-
www.musc.edu/dbbe/srcos2008 or contact & Development, MS6025-B3141, 50
2357;
rich@stat.wisc.edu. Angela Williams, 135 Cannon Street, Ste. Pequot Ave., New London, CT 06320;
303, MSC 835, Charleston, SC 29425; (860) 732-4871;
naitee.ting@pfizer.com.
(843) 876-1152;
srcos08info@musc.edu.
June
18–20 Summer Institute of Applied
8–11—International Workshop on Statistics, Provo, Utah
*4–6—ASA Quality and Productivity
Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis, The 33rd Annual Brigham Young
Research Conference, Madison,
Protaras, Cyprus University Summer Institute of Applied
Wisconsin
The aim of this workshop is to bring Statistics will be presented by Dr. Scott
The theme of the 2008 conference is
together a number of experts in time M. Berry, of Berry Consultants, and is
“With Data and Statistics, Unlock the
series analysis with young researchers entitled “Bayesian Clinical Trials.” The
Hidden Treasure of Knowledge.” George
in the field. The meeting was organized course will describe recent Bayesian inno-
E. P. Box will be honored for a lifetime
around two short courses given by vations in the design and analysis of clini-
of achievement in statistical methods and
M. Rosenblatt and P. Brockwell and cal trials. For more info visit statistics.byu.
applications for quality and productivity
10 sessions with invited speakers. edu/summer_institute.
and C. F. Jeff Wu will be honored for
For more information, visit www.ucy.
seminal contributions to statistical theory
ac.cy/~rats2008 or contact Konstantinos
and methods for quality and productivity.
22–25—28th International Symposium
Fokianos (
fokianos@ucy.ac.cy) or
For more information, visit www.
on Forecasting (ISF2008), Nice, France
Theofanis Sapatinas (
fanis@ucy.ac.cy).
education.wisc.edu/conferences/2008QPRC
The International Symposium on
or contact Paul Tobias, 8418 La Plata
Forecasting (ISF) is the premier
Loop, Austin, TX 78737; (512) 288-
9–13—APA Advanced Training Institute: forecasting conference, attracting the
0951;
ptobias@austin.rr.com.
Nonlinear Methods for Psychological world’s leading forecasting researchers,
Science, Cincinnati, Ohio practitioners, and students. Through
This institute teaches methods of a combination of keynote speaker
4–7—ICSA 2008 Applied Statistics
nonlinear analysis and provides each presentations, academic sessions,
Symposium, Piscataway, New Jersey
participant with first-hand experience workshops, and social programs, the ISF
Short courses for this symposium will be
analyzing time series for nonlinear provides many excellent opportunities for
held on June 4, with scientific sessions
structure. The course is tailored to networking, learning, and fun. For more
June 5–7. Participants will exchange
psychologists and graduate students, with information, visit
http://forecasters.org/
and explore new scientific research and
the only prerequisites being the standard conf-isf.html or contact Pam STROUD,
application techniques. The symposium
statistics courses taught in psychology 53 Tesla Avenue, Medford, MA 02155;
will feature a keynote speech from Robert
graduate programs. The course focuses
isf@forecasters.org.
O’Neill and another keynote from David
on analyses that have already affected
DeMets, Zhiliang Ying, and Jianqin
psychological science in prominently
Fan. Six short courses and as many as 50
published work, such as quantitative
invited and contributed sessions will be
recurrence analysis and cross-recurrence
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