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Dear allstat, A workshop on "Validation in Statistics and Machine Learning" will take place in Berlin (Weierstrass Institute) on October 6-7th 2010. The workshop serves as a platform to critically discuss current shortcomings in the evaluation and validation of new statistical and machine learning methods, to present new strategies for assessing statistical approaches while avoiding optimistic bias, and to identify promising future directions of research. The workshop is funded by the Weierstrass Institute and by the Pascal2 Network of Excellence. Invited speakers include: Kim Esbensen (Aalborg University) Francois Fleuret (EPF Lausanne) Thomas Gerds (University of Copenhagen) Niels Keiding (University of Copenhagen) Mikio Braun (TU Berlin) Thorsten Dickhaus (HU Berlin) Ulrike Grömping (Beuth University of Applied Sciences) Torsten Hothorn (LMU Munich) Ulrich Mansmann (LMU Munich) Carolin Strobl (LMU Munich) Richardus Vonk (Bayer-Schering Pharma) We invite poster submissions that fit into the scope and topics of the workshop. More information can be found on the workshop homepage: http://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/validation2010/scope.jsp Submission deadline (posters): 31.08.2010 Registration deadline: 22.09.2010 Everyone is welcome! Kind regards, Anne-Laure Boulesteix and Nicole Krämer You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.