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21–24—ICSA 2009 Applied Statistics Collegio 30, Moncalieri, International
July
VENT
Symposium, San Francisco, California 10024, Italy; +39 0116705282; bnp@
Short courses will be offered on June
carloalberto.org.
OF E
1–3—International Conference
21, with more than 50 scientific sessions
AR
of Computational Statistics and
taking place from June 22–24. Keynote
Data Engineering 2009, London,
speakers include Wing Hung Wong,
23–27—18th International Workshop
United Kingdom
ALEND
Nicholas Jewell, and Ronald Wasserstein.
on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS ’09,
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Held under the World Congress on
Contributed paper abstracts may be sub-
Smolenice Castle, Slovakia
Engineering and organized by the
mitted to Jiming Jiang at jiang@wald.
This workshop will stimulate the
International Association of Engineers,
ucdavis.edu by May 1, 2009. The sympo-
exchange of ideas and research at the
this meeting serves as a good platform
sium will also sponsor J-P Hsu student
interfaces of matrix theory, statistics,
for the research community to meet
awards and travel grants, with the applica-
and stochastic processes. It includes
and exchange ideas. For more informa-
tion deadline of April 1, 2009. For more
invited and contributed talks and post-
tion, visit
www.iaeng.org/WCE2009/
information, visit
http://icsa2.org/2009 or
ers. For further information, visit www.
ICCSDE2009.html or contact William
contact Ying Lu, 185 Berry Street, Suite
um.sav.sk/en/iwms2009.html or con-
Young at
wce@iaeng.org.
350, San Francisco, CA 94143-0946;
tact Viktor Witkovsky, Institute of
ying.lu@radiology.ucsf.edu.
Measurement Science, Slovak Academy
of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, Bratislava,
20–22—International Symposium
International 84104, Slovakia; +421 2
in Statistics on GLLMM,
21–25—7th Workshop on 591045 30;
witkovsky@savba.sk.
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Bayesian Nonparametrics,
The objective of this symposium is to bring
Moncalieri (Turin), Italy
together a set of speakers and discussants
The aim of this workshop is to high-
➤25–27—United States Conference
to describe the latest research in GLLMM
light the latest developments in Bayesian
on Teaching Statistics ’09, Columbus,
with applications to biostatistics, econo-
nonparametrics, covering a variety of
Ohio
metrics, and ecological and environmental
theoretical and applied topics. For more
The target audience for this conference
studies, among others. For more infor-
information, visit bnpworkshop.carloalberto.
is teachers of undergraduate and AP sta-
mation, visit
www.iss-2009-stjohns.ca or
org or contact Pierpaolo De Blasi, via Real
tistics. Teachers of statistics at two-year
colleges and those planning a career in
contact Brajendra Sutradhar, Department
statistics education are especially encour-
of Mathematics and Statistics, St. John’s,
aged to attend. USCOTS is a ‘working
Newfoundland A1C 5S7, Canada;
conference,’ with many opportunities
7097378731;
bsutradh@math.mun.ca.
for hands-on activities, demonstrations,
Gi l l i n G s sc h o o l o f
networking, and idea sharing. Leaders in
statistics education and assessment will
August
Gl o b a l Pu b l i c he a lt h
Biostatistics Workshops
give plenary talks, including Dani Ben-
Zvi, George Cobb, Peter Ewell, Ronald
*1–6—2009 Joint Statistical Meetings,
May 18-22, 2009
Wasserstein, and Chris Wild. For more
Washington, DC
The Department of Biostatistics at the Univer-
information, visit
www.causeweb.org/uscots
JSM (Joint Statistical Meetings) is the
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased
or contact Deb Rumsey at rumsey@stat.
largest gathering of statisticians held in
to announce a week of workshops May 18-22
in Chapel Hill, NC, cosponsored by SAS Insti-
ohio-state.edu.
North America. It is held jointly with
tute. A two-day Clinical Trials Workshop, led by
the American Statistical Association,
Drs. Joseph Ibrahim and Anastasia Ivanova, will the International Biometric Society
cover adaptive designs from both frequentist and
28–7/1—IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meetings, (ENAR and WNAR), the Institute of
Bayesian perspectives. New SAS software for
Seoul, South Korea Mathematical Statistics, and the Statistical
group sequential methods will be introduced.
This new meeting series will provide an Society of Canada. Attended by more
Two 1½-day genetics workshops will be led by excellent forum for scientific communica-
than 5,500 people, activities include oral
Drs. Fred Wright, Wei Sun, and Fei Zou. The Ge-
tion and collaboration among researchers presentations, panel sessions, poster pre-
netic Association Analysis Workshop will intro-
in Asia and the Pacific Rim. It also will sentations, continuing education courses,
duce analysis methods for genotype and disease
promote communication and collaboration an exhibit hall, a placement service, society
associations, including specific genomic regions
and whole-genome scans. The Microarray-based
between researchers in this area and those and section business meetings, committee
Gene Expression Analysis Workshop will intro- from other parts of the world. The program
meetings, social activities, and networking
duce methods for the analysis of high-throughput
covers topics in statistics and probability, pre- opportunities. For more information, visit
expression datasets. Prior experience in genetics
senting recent developments and the state of
www.amstat.org/meetings or contact Elaine
is not required.
the art in a variety of modern research topics Powell, 732 North Washington Street,
Practicing biostatisticians and other public health
and applications. For more information, Alexandria, VA 22314; (888) 231-3473;
researchers interested in attending one or more visit
http://ims-aprm.org or contact Runze
jsm@amstat.org.
workshops can register at
www.sph.unc.edu/oce
Li, Department of Statistics, Penn State
beginning January, 2009.
University, University Park, PA 16802-2111;
(814) 965-1555;
ril4@stat.psu.edu.
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