YOUNG STATISTICIANS MEETING 2001
9TH -10TH APRIL 2001
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

The registration facilities for the Young Statisticians' 
Meeting 2001 are now on-line and are available at

http://www.maths.liv.ac.uk/ysm2001.html

Details of this meeting are given below. Note the 
deadline for registration for the conference is Friday 
9th February.

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The Young Statisticians' Meeting is an annual day-long 
event that will next be held at the University of Liverpool 
between 9th and 10th April 2001. In previous years the 
meeting has attracted in the region of 120 participants. 
The typical YSM participant is either nearing the 
completion of his/her PhD., or is within the first 5 years 
of a statistical career, in an academic, a business or an 
industrial environment. 

The purpose of the meeting is to provide a forum for 
participants to exchange research ideas both formally 
through oral and poster presentations, and informally 
over lunch, dinner and the evening reception. In 
particular, the meeting is intended to foster greater 
interaction between statisticians working in contrasting 
environments.

The conference is arranged as a series of plenary and 
parallel sessions. To begin the conference, there will 
be a plenary lecture given by Professor Deborah Ashby. 
There will also be a wine-reception and poster session on 
the evening of 9th April, where delegates will have the 
opportunity to meet some of the conference sponsors. 
The themes of individual sessions are currently being 
formalised; as a guide, previous meetings have included 
sessions on environmental statistics, medical and 
pharmaceutical statistics, theoretical statistics, statistical 
computation, engineering statistics and quality control, 
and financial stochastic modelling, amongst others. 

The conference will be held in Derby and Rathbone Hall, 
which is one of the University of Liverpool residences in 
the Greenbank complex, in Mossley Hill, one of the popular 
suburbs of the City of Liverpool. The residences are 
located in the spacious parkland of Greenbank House which 
dates partly from the eighteenth century.

Registration will start at 11:30am on Monday 9th April 
and the conference will close at midday on Tuesday 10th 
April. The cost of the meeting is £50. This includes lunch, 
afternoon tea, dinner, wine reception, breakfast, morning 
coffee, accommodation for the night of 9th April and the 
conference registration fee. 

There will be a further announcement to the list very soon, 
which will provide details of on-line registration 
facilities, and instructions for abstract submissions. In 
the meantime, any queries may be directed to the chair of 
the organising committee, Helen Clough at the address 
below. The closing date for registrations will be February 
9th 2001.  

The meeting is currently sponsored by

Astra Zeneca
International Statistical Institute
Minitab
Oxford University Press
Pfizer
PHLS
The Royal Statistical Society
Smithkline Beecham
SPSS
Wyeth Laboratories

Dr. Helen Clough,
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Statistics,
Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences,
Leahurst,
Neston,
South Wirral 
CH64 7TE

Tel. + 44 151 794 6173
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