Only 12 days left!
Abstracts to be submitted by January 31st!!
see website http://www.nuigalway.ie/maths/IWSM2006/
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               21st IWSM
International Workshop on Statistical Modelling
           Galway, Ireland:
       Monday 3 to Friday 7 July, 2006

    Pre-workshop course: Sunday 2 July

Second Announcement and Call for Papers
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The International Workshop on Statistical Modelling
is an annual conference organised by the Statistical
Modelling Society. The workshop concentrates on the
various aspects of statistical modelling, including
theoretical and methodological developments, applications
and computational methods. Papers motivated by real
practical problems are encouraged, but theoretical
contributions addressing problems of practical importance
or related to software developments are also welcome.
See http://www.statmod.org for more about the history
and philosophy of the workshops.
This is the first time that the IWSM will be held in Ireland.

The scientific programme is characterised by having
invited lectures and a pre-workshop tutorial, contributed
papers, and posters. Contributed papers should be suitable
for a 20 minute oral presentation or a poster and focus
on motivation, statement of key results and conclusions,
and emphasise examples, wherever possible.

For this workshop, submissions are especially encouraged
in the following areas: environment and climate change,
spatio-temporal models, large or complex data sets,
modern Bayesian methods, longitudinal data, mixed effects models,
statistical genomics, and gene expression.
More generally, papers are encouraged which illustrate
statistical responses to modern issues, such as the
genomics revolution or environmental climate change,
or which illustrate how modern problems involving large
and complex datasets are changing the face of statistics.

Invited Speakers
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A programme of five plenary speakers is planned emphasising
the conference themes.
Current speakers and topics:
  Garrett Fitzmaurice - to be confirmed,
  Leo Held - Quantitative assessment of probabilistic forecasts
               with applications in epidemiology
  John Haslett - Palaeoclimate reconstruction

+ 2 to be confirmed

Short Course: Sunday 2 July
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Statistics for Microarrays: a one day tour
by Ernst Wit (Lancaster University, UK)

Students
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Students are encouraged to attend the workshop.
The programme is designed to allow for discussions and
interchange between junior and senior scientists.
Awards will be given for best student talk and for best student poster.

Programme
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To maintain the focus of the conference and to promote
interaction between all delegates, all talks will be the
presented in the same lecture hall.
There will be no parallel sessions.

Papers should be submitted as extended abstracts of 3-4 pages
and should indicate whether they are to be presented orally
or as a poster. All submitted abstracts will be refereed by
the Scientific Committee. Due to the limited number of oral
presentations, some authors who have submitted an abstract
for oral presentation may be asked to prepare a poster
presentation instead. There will be dedicated poster sessions
to ensure that the posters get plenty of attention and to
give presenters full opportunity to interact with conference attendees.

Abstracts (3-4 pages) should be submitted no later than January 31, 2006.
 Notification of acceptance will be mailed by March 14, 2006.
All authors will be given the opportunity to contribute full
papers which will be refereed and printed in a proceedings
volume that will be ready at the beginning of the conference.
The final manuscript (up to 8 pages) ready for reproduction
should reach the organizers by April 14, 2006.
The workshop language is English.

Venue
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National University of Ireland, Galway
–  located in the centre of Galway city on the west coast of Ireland.

Registration Fees
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Early registration (before 14 April 2006):
  Full fee:    330 euro (includes membership of Statistical Modelling Society
                           and subscription to Statistical Modelling)
  Student fee: 170 euro (includes membership of Statistical Modelling Society)

Late Registration: Full - 380 euro; Student 200 euro

Short Course: 80 euro

Social Programme
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The workshop will feature a full social programme including
a welcome, excursion to Connemara and conference dinner.

Excursion: 40 euro;  Conference Dinner 40 euro

Further information
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Details about registration for the workshop, accommodation,
instructions for authors and further information
are available on the workshop homepage
http://www.nuigalway.ie/maths/IWSM2006/

Deadlines
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January 31, 2006: Submission of abstracts (3-4 pages)
March 14, 2006:   Notification of acceptance
April 14, 2006:   Submission of final manuscripts
April 14, 2006:   Last day for early registration

Scientific Programme Committee
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Alan Agresti (Florida, USA),
Jim Booth (USA),
Jochen Einbeck (Galway, Ireland),
Linda Haines (Cape Town, South Africa),
John Hinde (Galway, Ireland; Chair),
John Newell (Galway, Ireland),
Vicente Núñez-Antón  (Bilbao, Spain),
Pedro Puig (Barcelona, Spain),
Jeff Simonoff (New York, USA),
Julio Singer (São Paulo, Brazil),
Ernst Wit (Glasgow, UK)

Local Organising Committee
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Jochen Einbeck (NUI Galway, Ireland),
Brian Francis (Lancaster University, UK),
John Hinde (NUI Galway, Ireland; Chair),
Emma Holian (NUI Galway, Ireland),
Gilbert Mackenzie (University of Limerick, Ireland),
John Newell (NUI Galway, Ireland),
Noreen Quinn (NUI Galway, Ireland)


Contact details
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Professor John Hinde
Department of Mathematics
National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway
Ireland

Tel: +353 91 492043
Fax: +353 91 494542
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