July
recent developments and achievements 13–19—AACR Cancer Biostatistics
VENTS
in the field of quality and methodologies Workshop, Sonoma, California
OF E
1–4—ISBIS-2008: International
for survey statistics, with a special focus For information, visit
www.aacr.org or
on official statistics. The conference will contact Mark Mendenhall, 615 Chestnut
AR
Symposium on Business and Industrial
Statistics, Prague, Czech Republic
encompass relevant topics for improving Street, 17th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106-
This symposium will focus on quantitative
quality in the European statistical system. 4404; (267) 646-660;
mendenhall@aacr.org.
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aspects of banking, insurance, finance, and
Short courses also will be offered. For more
important statistical issues relating to pro-
information, visit
q2008.istat.it or contact
➤14–17—Integrating Computing
ductivity improvement and decisionmaking
Marina Signore, via C. Balbo 16, Rome,
into the Statistics Curricula,
at all levels of business and industry. Many
International 00184, Italy;
q2008@istat.it.
Berkeley, California
leading quantitative financial analysts and
This workshop is a hands-on program for
industrial statisticians will be participat-
8–12—III European Congress of faculty members interested in innovating
ing in the varied and stimulating scientific
Methodology, Oviedo, Spain statistics courses and curricula to better
program of invited and contributed papers.
The III European Congress of prepare statistics students to engage in
Authors will have the opportunity to
Methodology, held in conjunction with creative statistical practice in today’s
submit extended versions of their papers
the Society for Multivariate Analysis in dynamic, data-rich scientific environment.
for publication in a special edition of the
the Behavioural and Social Sciences, will For details, visit
www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/
society’s journal, Applied Stochastic Models
focus on the improvement of teaching statcur/Workshop2/index.html or contact
in Business and Industry. For more informa-
and research in methodology in the fields Deborah Nolan, Dept. of Statistics, 367
tion, visit
www.action-m.com/isbis2008 or
of social science, health, education, and Evans Hall MC 3860, Berkeley, CA
contact Milena Zeithamlova, Vrsovicka 68,
behavior. For more information, visit 94720-3860; (510) 643-7097; nolan@stat.
101 00, Prague, International 10, Czech
methodology.cop.es or contact Rolf Steyer,
berkeley.edu.
Republic;
milena@action-m.com.
Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, Jena, International
07743, Germany; 00493641945231; rolf.
14–19—7th World Congress in
2–4—International Conference
steyer@uni-jena.de.
Probability and Statistics, Singapore
of Computational Statistics and
The World Congress in Probability and
Data Engineering 2008, London,
10–11—Epidemiology and Biometry Statistics is a major international event
United Kingdom
2008: Recent Statistical Methods in in probability and statistics held every
This conference is held under the World
Epidemiology, Paris, France four years. It features the latest scientific
Congress on Engineering 2008 by the
This meeting will focus on innovative developments in the fields of probability
International Association of Engineers.
statistical approaches to the design and and statistics and their applications. The
For more information, visit
www.iaeng.org/
analysis of epidemiological surveys. The program will cover a range of topics
WCE2008/ICCSDE2008.html or contact
program will include invited talks, contrib- and feature more than a dozen keynote
William Young, Unit 1, 1/F, 37-39 Hung
uted oral sessions, and contributed posters. lectures presented by leading specialists. In
To Road, Hong Kong, International HK,
Epidemiologists and biostatisticians are addition, there will be invited paper sessions
Hong Kong;
wce@iaeng.org.
expected to propose talks about methods highlighting topics of current research
(e.g., presentation, illustration, compari- interest and many contributed talks and
7–18—IOPS Summer School of
sons) or problems for which epidemiolo- posters. For more information, visit www.
Psychometrics and Sociometrics,
gists are looking for solutions. For more
ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/wc2008/index.
Wassenaar, The Netherlands
information, visit biomserv.univ-lyon1. htm or contact Irene Tan, Department of
This new initiative of the IOPS Graduate
fr/SFB/fichiers/epidbiom2008.html or con- Statistics and Applied Probability, 6 Science
School will provide an intensive course pro-
tact Michel Chavance, INSERM U780, 16 Drive 2, Faculty of Science, National
gram of master classes in quantitative and
avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier, Villejuif, University of Singapore, Singapore,
methodological methods outside the regular
International 94807, France; + 33 (0)1 45 International 117546, Singapore; wc2008_
IOPS course program. The Summer School
59 50 63;
chavance@vjf.inserm.fr.
general@nus.edu.sg.
is intended for PhD students and postdocs
who have a good background in psycho-
13–18—IBC 2008 Dublin, 15–17—LASR 2008: The Art and
metrics, sociometrics, statistics, economet-
Dublin, Ireland Science of Statistical Bioinformatics,
rics, or related areas. For more information,
This conference will include 20 invited Leeds, United Kingdom
visit
www.iops.nl/summerschool or contact
sessions, other special sessions, contributed The 27th Leeds Annual Statistical Research
Susanna Verdel, Faculty of Social Sciences,
talks, posters, and preconference short workshop will continue to explore the
P.O. Box 9555, Leiden, International 2300
courses (July 13). The conference lan- LASR themes of statistical bioinformatics,
RB, The Netherlands; +31 71 527 3829;
guage is English. For more information, shape and image analysis, and interdisci-
verdel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl.
visit
www.cpregistrations.com/ibc/2008 or plinary statistics. For details, visit www.
contact John Hinde, Mathematics Dept.,
maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2008 or contact
8–11—European Conference on Quality
NUI Galway, Galway, International GA1, Stuart Barber, Department of Statistics,
in Official Statistics, Rome, Italy
Ireland; +353 91 492043; john.hinde@ Leeds, International LS2 9JT, UK;
This biannual meeting is intended to serve
nuigalway.ie. +44(0)1133435146; workshop@maths.
as a European-level forum for discussing
leeds.ac.uk.
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