Sydney, Australia: Sunday 10 to Friday 15 July, 2005
Pre-workshop tutorial: Sunday 10 July
20TH IWSM
STATISTICAL SOLUTIONS TO MODERN PROBLEMS
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
The International Workshop on Statistical Modelling is an annual
conference organised by the Statistical Modelling Society. The
workshop concentrates on the various aspects of statistical
modelling, including theoretical developments, applications and
computational methods. Papers motivated by real practical
problems are encouraged, but theoretical contributions
addressing problems of practical importance or related to
software developments are also welcome. See
http://www.statmod.org for more about the history and philosophy
of the workshops. The 20th IWSM will be the first to be held in
the southern hemisphere.
The scientific programme is characterised by having invited
lectures and a pre-workshop tutorial, contributed papers,
posters and software demonstrations. Contributed papers should
be suitable for a 20 minute oral presentation or a poster and
focus on motivation, statement of key results and conclusions,
and emphasise examples, wherever possible.
For this workshop, submissions are especially encouraged in the
following areas: statistical genomics, gene expression,
environment and climate change, large or complex data sets,
modern Bayesian methods, mixed effects models and interval-
censored data. More generally papers are encouraged which
illustrate statistical responses to modern issues, such as the
genomics revolution or environmental climate change, or which
illustrate how modern problems involving large and complex
datasets are changing the face of statistics.
The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Symposium,
"Recent Advances in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Markov
Chain Monte Carlo", will be scheduled immediately before the
IWSM at a nearby venue in Sydney, see
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~scott/symposium .
INVITED SPEAKERS
A programme of five plenary speakers is planned emphasising the
conference themes. Confirmed speakers include Noel Cressie (Ohio
State University), Simon Tavaré (Cambridge University and
University of Southern California) and Matt Wand (University of
New South Wales). A one-day short course on "Mixed Models" will
be given by Brian Cullis, Alison Smith and Ari Verbyla on the
Sunday before the start of the conference proper.
STUDENTS
Students are encouraged to attend the workshop. The programme is
designed to allow for discussions and interchange between junior
and senior scientists. Awards will be given for best student
talk and for best student poster.
PROGRAMME
To maintain the focus of the conference and to promote
interaction between all delegates, all talks will be the
presented in the same lecture hall. There will be no parallel
sessions.
Papers should be submitted as extended abstracts of 3-4 pages
and should indicate whether they are to be presented orally or
as a poster. All submitted abstracts will be refereed by the
Scientific Committee. Due to the limited number of oral
presentations, some authors who have submitted an abstract for
oral presentation may be asked to prepare a poster presentation
instead. There will be dedicated poster sessions to ensure that
the posters get plenty of attention and to give presenters full
opportunity to interact with conference attendees.
Abstracts (3-4 pages) should be submitted no later than January
31, 2005. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by March 14,
2005. (Early confirmation of acceptance is available by special
request.) All authors will be given the opportunity to
contribute full papers which will be refereed and printed in a
proceedings volume that will be ready at the beginning of the
conference. The final manuscript (up to 8 pages) ready for
reproduction should reach the organizers by April 15, 2005. The
workshop language is English.
SOCIAL PROGRAMME
The workshop will feature a full social programme including a
welcome, excursion and conference dinner.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Murray Aitkin (Melbourne, Australia), Melanie Bahlo (Melbourne,
Australia), Brian Cullis (Wagga Wagga, Australia), Paul Eilers
(Leiden, The Netherlands), John Hinde (Galway, Ireland), Herwig
Friedl (Graz, Austria), Irene Hudson (Christchurch, New
Zealand), Emmanuel Lesaffre (Leuven, Belgium), Kenan Matawie
(Sydney, Australia), Meei Ng (Melbourne, Australia), David Nott
(Sydney, Australia), Alicia Oshlack (Melbourne, Australia),
Gordon Smyth (Melbourne, Australia, Chair), Bill Venables
(Brisbane, Australia), Ari Verbyla (Adelaide, Australia)
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Carmel Coady (Sydney, Australia), Peter Dunn (Queensland,
Australia), Andrew Francis (Sydney, Australia), Richard Gerlach
(Newcastle, Australia), Ravi Jaganathan (Sydney, Australia),
Kenan Matawie (Sydney, Australia, Chair), Robert Mellor (Sydney,
Australia), Shelton Peiris (Sydney, Australia), Marco Reale
(Christchurch, New Zealand), Gordon Smyth (Melbourne, Australia)
VENUE
Swiss-Grand Resort and Spa. The hotel is on Bondi Beach in
Sydney.
http://www.swissgrand.com.au
FURTHER INFORMATION
Details about registration for the workshop, instructions for
authors and further information will be available from the
workshop homepage http://www.uws.edu.au/iwsm2005/
DEADLINES
January 31, 2005: Submission of abstracts (3-4 pages)
March 14, 2005: Notification of acceptance
March 31, 2005: Last day for early registration
April 15, 2005: Submission of final manuscripts
Please note: hotel reservations made after 31 March 2005 cannot
be guaranteed.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr Kenan Matawie
Senior Lecturer,
School of Quantitative Methods
and Mathematical Sciences,
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South
DC NSW 1797, Australia
Tel: +61-2-96859460
Fax: +61-2-96859339
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Dr Gordon Smyth
Senior Research Scientist,
Bioinformatics, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
of Medical Research,
1G Royal Parade, Parkville,
Vic 3050, Australia
Tel:+61-3-93452326
Fax +61-3- 93470852
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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