Dear allstat,
Registration is now open for the Silver Anniversary LASR Workshop,
"Interdisciplinary Statistics and Bioinformatics", which will be held in
Leeds from Tuesday 4th to Thursday 6th July.
As usual the workshop format is a mixture of invited and contributed
talks, and posters. It has a tradition of being informal and relaxed, and
of encouraging interaction and discussion between the participants.
Confirmed speakers at LASR-2006 include
Brian Athey (University of Michigan)
Julian Besag, FRS (University of Washington)
Clive Bowman (GlaxoSmithKline)
Fred Bookstein (Universities of Vienna, Seattle)
Sir David Cox, FRS (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Walter Gilks (University of Leeds)
Chris Glasbey (Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland)
Julia Goodfellow (BBSRC)
Thomas Hamelryck (University of Copenhagen)
John Kent (University of Leeds)
Alf Linney (University College, London)
Kanti Mardia (University of Leeds)
Tom McLeish (University of Leeds)
Janet Thornton FRS, CBE (European Bioinformatics Institute)
David Westhead (University of Leeds)
More details are available on the workshop web site,
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2006
The registration fees, which include refreshments, lunches, and a copy
of the workshop proceedings, are
Early registration (valid up to 31st May 2006): 165 GBP (students 145)
Late registration (from 1st June 2006): 195 GBP (students 165).
You can register by filling in the form on the web site
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2006/regform.html
If you have any questions about the workshop, please do get in touch.
I hope to see you in Leeds to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the
LASR workshop.
Stuart.
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Dr Stuart Barber
Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop,
Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
web: http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/workshop
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