16–18—APA Advanced Training
C
24–26—Current Trends and Challenges people, activities of the meeting include oral
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Institute: Geographic Information
in Model Selection and Related Areas, presentations, panel sessions, poster presen-
Systems for Behavioral Research, Santa
Vienna, Austria tations, Continuing Education courses, an
AR
Barbara, California
This workshop will provide a forum for pre- exhibit hall (with state-of-the-art statistical
OF E
This course introduces the science and
sentation and discussion of current trends products and opportunities), the Career
technologies of Geographic Information
and challenging problems in model selec- Placement Service, society and Section busi-
VENTS
Systems (GIS) to psychologists and other
tion and related shrinkage methods. Invited ness meetings, committee meetings, social
behavioral scientists. There will be morning
speakers include Yannick Baraud, Ruudy activities, and networking opportunities.
presentations by GIS experts and afternoon
Beran, Ed George, Patrik Guggenberger, For more information, visit www.amstat.
lab sessions that focus on technical aspects
Ching-Kang Ing, Paul Kabaila, Gabor org/meetings or contact Elaine Powell, 732
of GIS. For more information, visit www.
Lugosi, and Yuhong Yang. Contributed North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA
apa.org/science/ati.html or contact Nicolle
presentations are welcome. For details, visit 22314; (703) 684-1221; elaine@amstat.org.
Singer, 750 1st Street NE, Washington, DC
www.univie.ac.at/workshop_modelselection
20002; (202) 336-6000; nsinger@apa.org.
or contact Hannes Leeb, 24 Hillhouse Ave.,
➤5–6—3rd International Conference on
New Haven, CT 06510; (203) 508-2339;
Mathematics and Statistics (ICoMS-3),
20–26—BIT’s 1st World Summit of hannes.leeb@yale.edu.
Bogor, Indonesia
Antivirals, Kunming, China
This conference is an opportunity for aca-
This is a focused event for updating the
28–29—2nd CensusAtSchool demicians, researchers, and practitioners
current advances in worldwide R&D of
International Workshop, Los Angeles, of statistics and mathematics to share their
novel antiviral therapeutics. Attendees will
California ideas and contribute to the development
represent top-level decisionmakers from
Leaders of the CensusAtSchool project of quantitative methods. There will be sev-
leading biotech, pharmaceutical, and health
will give hands-on presentations for teach- eral invited speakers, and professors from
care organizations. The conference also will
ers to illustrate how they use data in the around the world will discuss statistical and
provide an ideal forum for the promotion
international C@S database. Statistics edu- mathematical approaches in their fields. For
of relevant companies, products, technolo-
cation leaders from the United States will more information, visit web.ipb.ac.id/~stat/
gies, and services. For more information,
open the meeting with a series of plenary icoms2008 or contact Anang Kurnia, Dept.
visit www.bitlifesciences.com/wsa2008 or
talks. For more information, visit www. of Statistics IPB, Kampus IPB Darmaga,
contact Chris Han, 26 Gaoneng Street,
stat.ucla.edu or contact Juana Sanchez, Bogor, International 16680, Indonesia;
Room 405, Dalian High-Tech Zone,
UCLA Department of Statistics, 8125 MS +62251624535; icoms2008@ipb.ac.id;
Dalian, International LN 116025, China;
Building, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA icoms2008@yahoo.com.
0086-411-84799479; chris@bitlifesciences.
90095-1554; (310) 825-1318; jsanchez@
com.
stat.ucla.edu.
7–9—14th ISSAT International
Conference on Reliability and Quality in
21–25—9th World Meeting of the
29–8/2—New Researchers Conference, Design, Orlando, Florida
International Society for Bayesian
Boulder, Colorado This annual conference is an international
Analysis, Hamilton Island, Australia
The Eleventh Meeting of New Researchers forum for the presentation of new results,
ISBA 2008 will combine an excellent sci-
in Statistics and Probability provides research development, and applications
entific program—including five keynote
an opportunity for new researchers to in all aspects of reliability and quality in
speakers, 90 oral presentations, three paral-
exchange research ideas in an informal design. For more information, visit www.
lel sessions, and two poster evenings—with
setting and interact with invited senior issatconferences.org or contact International
an active social schedule. For details,
participants. For more information, visit Society of Science and Applied
visit www.maths.qut.edu.au/asba/docs/
www.stat.rutgers.edu/~rebecka/NRC or con- Technologies, P.O. Box 1504, Piscataway,
isba08 or contact Clair Alston, School
tact Rebecka Jornsten, 501 Hill Center, FL 08855; cs@issatconferences.org.
of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland
Piscataway, NJ 07030; (732) 445-3145;
University of Technology, GPO Box 2434,
rebecka@stat.rutgers.edu.
➤ 11–15—Statistics in Industry and
Brisbane, International 4001, Australia;
Business: Joint Statistical Meeting,
isba08@qut.edu.au.
Cartagena, Colombia
August
This meeting is to promote research in
23–26—17th International Workshop
on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS’08,
*3–7—2008 Joint Statistical Meetings,
Latin America in statistical methods that
Tomar, Portugal
Denver, Colorado
address problems in industry, banking,
For more information about this conference,
JSM (Joint Statistical Meetings) is the
and finance. The program includes invited
being held in honor of T. W. Anderson’s
largest gathering of statisticians held in
sessions and conferences, contributed oral
90th birthday, visit www.ipt.pt/iwms08 or
North America. It is jointly held with
sessions, and contributed posters. There
contact Francisco Carvalho, Estrada da Serra
the American Statistical Association, the
is also a social program, including a wel-
- Quinta do Contador, Tomar, International
International Biometric Society (ENAR
come reception and conference dinner.
2300-313 TOMAR, Portugal; +351 249
and WNAR), the Institute of Mathematical
For details, visit www.ciencias.unal.edu.
328 100; fpcarvalho@ipt.pt.
Statistics, and the Statistical Society of
co/estadistica/simposio/eng or contact Jose
Canada. Attended by more than 5,500
Vargas, National University of Colombia,
javargasn@unal.edu.co.
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