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by May 17. For more information, visit
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Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210;
(614) 688-4546;
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2008
will accept projects until January 26,
2009. If you have undergraduate students
conducting class projects or independent
14—Conference on Statistical Methods
December study projects that involve analyzing
for Complex Data
real data, encourage them to submit.
Texas A&M’s Department of Statistics
15–16—Winter Workshop on Presentations for the top three projects
is teaming up with the National Cancer
Mathematical Statistics Bratislava 2008, of 2007 can be found at www.cst.cmich.
Institute to celebrate Raymond J. Carroll
WWMS ’08, Bratislava, Slovakia edu/users/lee1c/usproc. The winners of the
with a day-long conference. Keynote speak-
Friends, colleagues, and students of top four projects will receive monetary
ers Mitchell Gail and Peter Hall headline a
Andrej Pázman will celebrate his 70th rewards and a free trip to make a presenta-
program featuring presentations by inter-
birthday by offering this workshop, tion at the United State Conference on
nationally recognized researchers engaged
intended to be highly informal and focus Teaching Statistics. The instructor sponsor
in statistical methods for complex data in a
on a range of ideas in mathematical sta- also will receive free registration. For more
variety of fields. Sessions include nonpara-
tistics. In addition to invited lectures, the information, visit
www.causeweb.org/usproc
metric and semiparametric regression; mea-
focus will be on informal discussions. For or contact Carl Lee, Central Michigan
surement error and inverse problems; and
further information, visit
www.um.sav. University, Mt. Pleasant, OH 48859;
statistical methods in biology, genetics, and
sk/en/wwms2008.html or contact Viktor (989) 774-3555;
carl.lee@cmich.edu.
population science. In addition to providing
Witkovsky, Institute of Measurement
an overview of historical developments and
Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
current status for each field, the conference
Dubravska cesta 9, 84104 Bratislava,
26–28—2009 Bayesian Biostatistics,
will serve as a discussion platform for emerg-
Slovakia; +421 2 591045 30; Witkovsky@
Houston, Texas
ing issues and future research directions.
savba.sk.
Attendees will have the opportunity to
For more information, visit www.stat.tamu.
attend two courses on the first day of the
edu/carroll-conference-2009 or contact Joyce
conference: The Use of Bayesian Statistics
Sutherland, Rm. 442 Blocker Bldg., Texas
29–31—VI International Symposium in Clinical Trials and Applications of
A&M University, 3143 TAMU, College
on Optimization and Statistics (ISOS- Bayesian Methods to Drug and Medical
Station, TX 77843-3143; (979) 845-5528,
2008), Aligarh, India Device Development. There will be
joyce@stat.tamu.edu.
The goal of this symposium is to dissemi- invited presentations the following two
nate and highlight current research in all days that will cover a variety of topics. For
branches of the Department of Statistics more information, visit www.mdanderson.
18–20—IAENG International
and Operations Research. For details, org/departments/biostats or contact Lydia
Conference on Data Mining and
visit
www.amu.ac.in/shared/sublinkimages/ Davis, P.O. Box 301402, Unit 1409,
Applications 2009, Hong Kong, China
isos2008.pdf or contact Abdul Hamid Houston, TX 77030; (713) 794-4142;
Topics for this conference include soft
Khan, Department of Statistics and
lbdavis@mdanderson.org.
computing, statistical data mining, and
Operations Research, Aligarh Muslim
applications. For more information, visit
University, Aligarh, International 202002,
March
www.iaeng.org/IMECS2009/ICDMA2009.
India;
ahamidkhan@rediffmail.com.
html or contact IAENG Secretariat, Unit
1, 1/F, 37-39 Hung To Road, Hong
➤1–5/1—USCOTS ’09 Posters &
Kong, International HK, Hong Kong;
2009
Beyond Call for Proposals, Columbus,
(852) 3169-3427;
imecs@iaeng.org.
Ohio
The theme for USCOTS ’09 is “Letting
January
Go to Grow.” We are calling for proposals 24–27—6th International Conference
for the Posters and Beyond session, to take on Multiple Comparison Procedures,
➤26—Undergraduate Statistics Project
place June 25–27. The session provides an Tokyo, Japan
Competition, Columbus, Ohio
opportunity for conference participants The goal of this conference is to promote
The second biennial international under-
to display a poster or provide a small research and applications of multiple
graduate statistics project competition
demonstration of their favorite examples, comparison procedures and to exchange
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