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taking place from June 22–24. Keynote statistics education are especially encour- contact Senior Manager Marketing,
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speakers include Wing Hung Wong, aged to attend. USCOTS is a ‘working Europe, DIA, Postfach, Basel, International
Nicholas Jewell, and Ron Wasserstein. conference,’ with many opportunities 4002, Switzerland; +41 61 225 51 51;
Contributed paper abstracts may be for hands-on activities, demonstrations,
talana.bertschi@diaeurope.org.
ALEND
C submitted to Jiming Jiang at jiang@ networking, and idea sharing. Leaders in
wald.ucdavis.edu by May 1, 2009. The statistics education and assessment will
symposium will also sponsor J-P Hsu give plenary talks, including Dani Ben-
1–3—International Conference of
student awards and travel grants, with Zvi, George Cobb, Peter Ewell, Ronald
Computational Statistics and Data
the application deadline of April 1, 2009. Wasserstein, and Chris Wild. For more
Engineering 2009, London, United
For more information, visit http://icsa2. information, visit
www.causeweb.org/
Kingdom
org/2009 or contact Ying Lu, 185 Berry uscots or contact Deb Rumsey at rumsey@
Held under the World Congress on
Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA
stat.ohio-state.edu.
Engineering and organized by the
94143-0946;
ying.lu@radiology.ucsf.edu.
International Association of Engineers,
this meeting serves as a good platform
28–7/1—IMS Asia Pacific Rim
for the research community to meet
21–25—7th Workshop on Bayesian
Meetings, Seoul, South Korea
and exchange ideas. For more informa-
Nonparametrics, Moncalieri (Turin),
This new meeting series will provide
tion, visit
www.iaeng.org/WCE2009/
Italy
an excellent forum for scientific com-
ICCSDE2009.html or contact William
The aim of this workshop is to highlight
munication and collaboration among
Young at
wce@iaeng.org.
the latest developments in Bayesian non-
researchers in Asia and the Pacific Rim.
parametrics, covering a variety of theoret-
It also will promote communication
ical and applied topics. For more infor-
and collaboration between researchers
››7–9—LASR 2009: Statistical Tools
mation, visit
bnpworkshop.carloalberto.org
in this area and those from other parts
for Challenges in Bioinformatics,
or contact Pierpaolo De Blasi, via Real
of the world. The program covers topics
Leeds, United Kingdom
Collegio 30, Moncalieri, International
in statistics and probability, presenting
The 2009 Leeds Annual Statistical
10024, Italy; +39 0116705282; bnp@
recent developments and the state of the
Research Workshop will focus on devel-
carloalberto.org.
art in a variety of modern research topics
opments in interdisciplinary statistics
and applications. For more information,
and the interface between statistical
visit
http://ims-aprm.org or contact Runze
methodology and bioinformatics. For
Li, Department of Statistics, Penn State
23–27—18th International Workshop
more information, visit www.maths.
University, University Park, PA 16802-
on Matrices and Statistics, IWMS ’09,
leeds.ac.uk/lasr2009 or contact Arief
2111; (814) 965-1555;
ril4@stat.psu.edu.
Smolenice Castle, Slovakia
Gusnanto, Department of Statistics,
This workshop will stimulate the
Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, International
exchange of ideas and research at the
LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; +44 113
July
interfaces of matrix theory, statistics, and
3435135;
workshop@maths.leeds.ac.uk.
stochastic processes. It includes invited
››1—6th EudraVigilance Information
and contributed talks and posters. For
Day, London, United Kingdom
››13–15—International Conference
further information, visit
www.um.sav.
EudraVigilance Information Day will
on the Interface Between Statistics and
sk/en/iwms2009.html or contact Viktor
provide a forum for marketing authoriza-
Engineering, Beijing, China
Witkovsky, Institute of Measurement
tion holders and sponsors of clinical trials
This conference will focus on innova-
Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences,
to gain a better understanding of the key
tive research on the interface between
Dubravska cesta 9, Bratislava,
activities of the EudraVigilance Expert
statistics and engineering for the support
International 84104, Slovakia; +421 2
Working Group and their work 2009 pro-
of complex system design and opera-
591045 30;
witkovsky@savba.sk.
gram (see http://eudravigilance.emea.europa.
tion, quality and reliability engineering,
eu). The main areas to be addressed are
and optimal decisionmaking. Authors
implementation aspects related to electronic
are invited to submit abstracts. For
reporting of ICSRs, key pharmacovigilance
more information, visit http://icise.bjut.
25–27—United States Conference on
activities in some of the EU member states,
edu.cn/index.htm or contact Kwok Tsui,
Teaching Statistics ’09, Columbus,
and practical implementation questions
Industrial and Systems Engineering, 765
Ohio
raised by stakeholders. For more informa-
Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332; (404)
The target audience for this conference
tion, visit
www.diahome.org/DIAHOME/
894-2311;
ktsui@isye.gatech.edu.
is teachers of undergraduate and AP sta-
Education/FindEducationalOffering.aspx?pro
tistics. Teachers of statistics at two-year
ductID=18483&eventType=Meeting or
colleges and those planning a career in
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