Second Announcement - AMSI Symposium
Recent Advances in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics
and Markov Chain Monte Carlo
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
7 - 8 July 2005
Biostatistics and Markov chain Monte Carlo are two of the most vibrant
current areas of statistical research. The analysis of experimental
data under alternative biological hypotheses in highly complex modeling
situations is becoming increasingly commonplace. Models based on genetic
and biological applications have traditionally provided a challenge for
stochastic simulation techniques due to their complex local dependency
structures, and the unique modelling circumstances generated by the
experimental design.
This symposium will focus on statistical issues in both Biostatistical
and MCMC fields. Cross-disciplinary research will also be presented.
The Symposium is scheduled immediately before the IWSM2005 Conference,
also in Sydney on 10-15 July 2005. There will also be two short courses
by David Balding (6th July) and Peter Green and Sylvia Richardson
(18th-19th July). Details TBA.
The Symposium consists of two days of invited talks. There will be no
contributed talks or posters. Participants can register at the Symposium
website,
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~scott/symposium
Invited Speakers
* David Balding (Imperial College, London)
* Chris Carter (CSIRO)
* Liang Faming (National University of Singapore)
* Chris Glasbey (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland)
* Peter Green (Bristol University)
* Robert Kohn (University of New South Wales)
* Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology)
* Geoff Nicholls (University of Auckland)
* David Nott (University of New South Wales)
* Sylvia Richardson (Imperial College, London)
* Gordon Smyth (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)
* Simon Tavare (University of Southern California)
Organisers
Yanan Fan, David Nott, Scott Sisson (School of Mathematics, UNSW) Robert
Kohn (School of Economics, UNSW) Gordon Smyth (Walter & Eliza Hall
Institute of Medical Research).
Contact Email: biomcmc(at)maths.unsw.edu.au
The organisers gratefully acknowledge financial support from the
Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.
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