Valencia / ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics
June 1st-June 7th, 2006
Benidorm (Alicante), Spain
http://www.uv.es/valenciameeting
The scientific programme will include:
(i) A set of 20 invited plenary thirty minute talks, followed by a
discussion initiated by an invited discussant; these will take place in
the mornings.
(ii) A set 32 twenty minutes plenary contributed oral presentations
selected by the ISBA Conference Programme Committee, which will take
place in the afternoons.
(iii) A set of plenary poster sessions, the seminal means of
communication of research by conference participants, which will take
place in the evenings.
The Conference will be preceded by a one-day set of tutorials,
intended to provide a short review
of the main ideas in Bayesian Statistics. The tutorials will be
delivered by members of the
Conference Programme Committee and will take place through Thursday
June 1st.
Call for ISBA oral presentations
ISBA is organizing a limited number of contributed oral presentations.
A total of 32 such presentations will be scheduled, each of 25 minutes
duration (20 minutes talk, 5 minutes for discussion).
Anyone interested in giving an oral presentation is invited to submit
an abstract of no more than three pages (including references),
accompanied by one additional page listing no more than five relevant
published references by the author/s. Any additional pages will not be
considered.
Submissions should be made via email to <[log in to unmask]>.
Please use the header AbstractName where Name is the first author's
name. Attach the abstract and accompanying page as .ps, .pdf or .doc
files.
Abstracts will be accepted between 1st September and 30th October 2005.
No late submissions will be accepted. The ISBA Conference Programme
Committee will review and vote on the submissions during November, and
the list of selected presentations will be available on the conference
website by 15th December 2005.
The ISBA Conference Programme Committee comprises the following: Kerrie
Mengersen (Australia, co-chair), Peter Mueller (USA, co-chair), Herbie
Lee (USA, co-chair Finance), Jose Bernardo (Spain, past Chair; Valencia
Programme Committee), Subashis Ghosal (USA), Paolo Giudici (Italy),
Merlise Clyde (USA), Yanan Fan (Australia), Judith Rousseau (France),
Cathy Chen (Taiwan), Richard Arnold (New Zealand), Paul Mostert (South
Africa), Robert Wolpert (USA), Josemar Rodrigues (Brazil), Jiangsheng
Yu (China), Antonietta Mira (Italy), Mark Steel (UK), Fabrizio Ruggeri
(Italy).
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Prof. Dr. Jose M. Bernardo
Dept. Estadistica, Fac Matematicas
46100-Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
Tel and Fax +34.96.3643560 (direct)
Tel +34.96.3643087, Fax +34.96.3643258 (office)
www.uv.es/bernardo <[log in to unmask]>
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