Dear Allstatters There are still places available at the Scottish and Northumbrian Academic Statisticians Meeting to be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow next month (see message below). The deadline has been extended to 11th May. =========================================================================================================================================================================================================== The Scottish and Northumbrian Academic Statisticians Meeting will take place on *Friday 22nd May* 2009, 11.00-5.00pm in McCance Lecture Room 1. Full details are on the Meeting website, http://sites.google.com/site/sn2009site/Home We have been very lucky to get three very distinguished speakers who have agreed to speak at this meeting. SPEAKERS Sheila Bird (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge) Drugs and statistical science in the 21st century: reflections on infectious disease epidemiology and criminal justice Mark Woolhouse (University of Edinburgh) Model development, model fitting, model selection and model validation for infectious disease data Marian Scott (University of Glasgow) Statistical challenges in environmental sciences If you want to come please send a registration form (on the website) to Lynne Westwood, (address on the registration form) by 11th May, with the £35 registration fee. If you have any questions please email me at [log in to unmask] Best regards Dr. David Greenhalgh Organiser, Scottish and Northumbrian Academic Statisticians' Meeting