visit
www.cpregistrations.com/ibc/2008 or behavioral scientists. There will be morning model selection and related shrinkage
C
ALEND
contact John Hinde, Mathematics Dept, presentations by GIS experts and afternoon methods. Invited speakers include Yannick
NUI Galway, Galway, International GA1, lab sessions that focus on technical aspects Baraud, Ruudy Beran, Ed George, Patrik
AR
Ireland; +353 91 492043; john.hinde@ of GIS. For more information, visit www. Guggenberger, Ching-Kang Ing, Paul
nuigalway.ie.
apa.org/science/ati.html or contact Nicolle Kabaila, Gabor Lugosi, and Yuhong Yang.
OF E
Singer, 750 1st Street NE, Washington, DC Contributed presentations are welcome. For
VENT
13–19—AACR Cancer Biostatistics
20002; (202) 336-6000;
nsinger@apa.org. details, visit
www.univie.ac.at/workshop_
S
Workshop, Sonoma, California
modelselection or contact Hannes Leeb, 24
For information, visit
www.aacr.org 20–26—BIT’s 1st World Summit of
Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06510;
or contact Mark Mendenhall, 615 Antivirals, Kunming, China
(203) 508-2339;
hannes.leeb@yale.edu.
Chestnut Street, 17th Floor, Philadelphia, This is a focused event for updating the
PA 19106-4404; (267) 646-660; current advances in worldwide R&D of 28–29—2nd CensusAtSchool
mendenhall@aacr.org. novel antiviral therapeutics. Attendees International Workshop, Los Angeles,
will represent top-level decisionmakers California
14–19—7th World Congress in
from leading biotech, pharmaceutical, and Leaders of the CensusAtSchool project
Probability and Statistics, Singapore
health care organizations. The conference will give hands-on presentations for teach-
The World Congress in Probability and
also will provide an ideal forum for the ers to illustrate how they use data in the
Statistics is a major international event in
promotion of relevant companies, prod- international C@S database. Statistics edu-
probability and statistics held every four
ucts, technologies, and services. For more cation leaders from the United States will
years. It features the latest scientific devel-
information, visit www.bitlifesciences. open the meeting with a series of plenary
opments in the fields of probability and
com/wsa2008 or contact Chris Han, talks. For more information, visit www.
statistics and their applications. The
26 Gaoneng Street, Room 405, Dalian
stat.ucla.edu or contact Juana Sanchez,
program will cover a range of topics
High-Tech Zone, Dalian, International UCLA Department of Statistics, 8125 MS
and feature more than a dozen keynote
LN 116025, China; 0086-411-84799479; Building, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA
lectures presented by leading specialists.
chris@bitlifesciences.com. 90095-1554; (310) 825-1318; jsanchez@
In addition, there will be invited paper
stat.ucla.edu.
sessions highlighting topics of current 21–25—9th World Meeting of the
research interest and many contributed International Society for Bayesian 29–8/2—New Researchers Conference,
talks and posters. For more informa- Analysis, Hamilton Island, Australia Boulder, Colorado
tion, visit
www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/ ISBA 2008 will combine an excellent sci- The Eleventh Meeting of New
wc2008/index.htm or contact Irene Tan, entific program—including five keynote Researchers in Statistics and Probability
Department of Statistics and Applied speakers, 90 oral presentations, three paral- provides an opportunity for new research-
Probability, 6 Science Drive 2, Faculty of lel sessions, and two poster evenings—with ers to exchange research ideas in an
Science, National University of Singapore, an active social schedule. For details, informal setting and interact with invited
Singapore, International 117546, visit
www.maths.qut.edu.au/asba/docs/ senior participants. For more information,
Singapore;
wc2008_general@nus.edu.sg. isba08 or contact Clair Alston, School visit www.stat.rutgers.edu/~rebecka/NRC
of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland or contact Rebecka Jornsten, 501 Hill
15–17—LASR 2008: The Art and
University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Center, Piscataway, NJ 07030; (732) 445-
Science of Statistical Bioinformatics,
Brisbane, International 4001, Australia; 3145;
rebecka@stat.rutgers.edu.
Leeds, United Kingdom
isba08@qut.edu.au.
The 27th Leeds Annual Statistical
Research workshop will continue to 23–26—17th International Workshop
August
explore the LASR themes of statistical on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS’08,
bioinformatics, shape and image analysis, Tomar, Portugal
*3–7—2008 Joint Statistical Meetings,
and interdisciplinary statistics. For details, For more information about this conference,
Denver, Colorado
visit
www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2008 or being held in honor of T. W. Anderson’s
JSM (Joint Statistical Meetings) is the
contact Stuart Barber, Department of 90th birthday, visit
www.ipt.pt/iwms08 or
largest gathering of statisticians held in
Statistics, Leeds, International LS2 9JT, contact Francisco Carvalho, Estrada da Serra
North America. It is jointly held with
UK; +44(0)1133435146; workshop@ - Quinta do Contador, Tomar, International
the American Statistical Association,
maths.leeds.ac.uk. 2300-313 TOMAR, Portugal; +351 249
the International Biometric Society
328 100;
fpcarvalho@ipt.pt.
(ENAR and WNAR), the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, and the Statistical
16–18—APA Advanced Training
Society of Canada. Attended by more
Institute: Geographic Information 24–26—Current Trends and Challenges
than 5,500 people, activities of the
Systems for Behavioral Research, Santa in Model Selection and Related Areas,
meeting include oral presentations, panel
Barbara, California Vienna, Austria
sessions, poster presentations, Continuing
This course introduces the science and This workshop will provide a forum
Education courses, an exhibit hall (with
technologies of Geographic Information for presentation and discussion of cur-
state-of-the-art statistical products and
Systems (GIS) to psychologists and other rent trends and challenging problems in
opportunities), the Career Placement
APRIL 2008 AMSTAT NEWS 47
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76