S
information about recent research direc- these fields by promoting the exchange ➤25—The 23rd New England Statistics
VENT
tions. The conference will cover many of ideas between them. We encourage Symposium, Storrs, Connecticut
current topics, including adaptive and the submission of all papers in keeping The Department of Statistics of the
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sequential designs, bioinformatics, clinical with this objective. For more informa- University of Connecticut will host this
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trials, genomics, closed testing and parti- tion, visit www.ics.uci.edu/~aistats or symposium to bring together statisticians
tioning principle, false discovery rate, and contact David van Dyk, 2206 Bren from all over New England. Invited key-
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multiple endpoints. An important role of Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-1250; dvd@ics. note speakers are James O. Berger and
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the conference will be to provide a forum
uci.edu. Richard A. Davis. There will be a half-day
for technical interaction among indus- short course, “Hierarchical Modeling
try practitioners, research scientists, and *19–21—21st Annual Kansas for Spatially Referenced Data with
statisticians. For more information, visit State University Conference on
Applications to Environmental Sciences
www.rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp/mcp2009 or con- Applied Statistics in Agriculture,
and Public Health.” There also will be sev-
tact Chihiro Hirotsu, 2-1-1 Hodokubo, Manhattan, Kansas
eral theme and contributed paper sessions.
Hino-city, Tokyo, International 191- This conference will bring together
Talks on all aspects of statistics and prob-
8506, Japan; +81 42 591 7142; hirotsu@ statisticians from academia, industry,
ability are invited. The NISS Affiliates
ge.meisei-u.ac.jp. and government to discuss ideas and
Annual Meeting also will be held in Storrs
advances in the application of statistics
on April 24. For more information, visit
to solve agricultural research problems.
www.stat.uconn.edu/www or contact
April The three-day conference will include a
Ming-Hui Chen, 215 Glenbrook Road,
keynote speaker, workshop, and series of
Unit 4120, Storrs, CT 06269-4120; (860)
16–18—Twelfth International
contributed paper and poster presenta-
486-6984;
mhchen@stat.uconn.edu.
Conference on Artificial Intelligence
tions. For more information, visit www.
and Statistics, Clearwater Beach,
ksu.edu/stats/agstat.conference or contact *30–5/2—SDM09: The Ninth SIAM
Florida
John Boyer, Kansas State University, International Conference on Data
This is an interdisciplinary gathering of
Department of Statistics, 101 Dickens Mining, Reno, Nevada
researchers at the intersection of computer
Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506; (785) 532- This conference provides a venue for
science, statistics, and related areas. Since
0518;
jboyer@ksu.edu. researchers to present their work in a
its inception in 1985, the primary goal
peer-reviewed forum. It is also an ideal
has been to broaden research in both of
setting for graduate students and others
new to the field to learn about cutting-
edge research by hearing talks, attending
tutorials (included with conference regis-
tration), and participating in workshops
held on the last day of the conference.
Conference proceedings from previ-
ous years are available at
www.siam.org/
proceedings. For more information, visit
www.siam.org/meetings/sdm09 or contact
Chandrika Kamath, 7000 East Avenue,
L-561, Livermore, CA 94551; (925) 423-
3768;
kamath2@llnl.gov.
May
3–8—Statistical Advances in
Genome-Scale Data Analysis, Ascona,
Switzerland
This interdisciplinary workshop will
address the challenges posed by the enor-
mous need for quantitative data integra-
tion and modeling in biology. Targeted
areas include emerging technologies, anal-
ysis of DNA composition data, machine
learning with genome-scale biomolecular
data, pharmacogenomics, and systems
approaches with heterogeneous data types.
We strongly encourage pre-registration;
in previous years, places have filled up
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