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International Biometric Society Multi-Region Conference

University of Leicester, April 5 - 8, 2005

Organised by the British, Belgian, Netherlands and French Regions of the IBS

The scientific programme for this conference is now almost complete.

Invited Programme:
Opening Keynote - Bioinformatics
        Wally Gilks (Medical Research Council, Cambridge UK)
                The Bioinformatics Challenge: are we up for it?
Invited Session 1 - Climate Change
        Tim Sparks (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK)
                The influence of climate change on the phenology of plants
and animals
        Jonathan Tawn (University of Lancaster, UK)
                Analysis of Extremes of Syntheic Sea Surge Data
Invited Session 2 - Microarrays
        Paul Eilers (Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands)
                Dense Scatterplots
        Chris Glasbey (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland)
                Statistical models to correct for saturdation effects in
cDNA microarrays
Invited Session 3 - Biometry in the EU
        Antoine Messean (INRA, France)
                Modelling gene flow at the landscape level
        Mart de Jong (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
                Quantification of transmission of viruses in livestock with
and without
                vaccination
        Hein Putter (Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands)
                Statistical challenges for the GenomEUtwin project
Closing Keynote - Biometry in Society
        Robert Curnow (University of Reading, UK)
                Disputed Science and Government Policy

The contributed oral programme includes a session showcasing recent papers
from the journal Biometrics, and further sessions on Microarrays, Ecological
and Environmental Statistics, Agriculture and Food, Genetics, Medical
Statistics, Multivariate Data, Missing Data, Spatial and Temporal
Statistics, Experimental Design and Sampling, Inference, and Non-linear and
Additive Models.

There will also be a poster session sponsored by Pfizer, with priz\es
awarded for the best posters.  Although the contributed oral programme is
now complete, we are still accepting abstracts for poster presentations,
which should be sent by email (as Word or plain text files) to the Secretary
to the Scientific Programme Committee at [log in to unmask] as soon
as possible.

Registration for the conference closes on March 14th - registration forms
can be obtained from the British Region website at:

        http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~rab/biometrics/british.html