The Second Channel Network Conference will take place at the conference
centre Het Pand
(http://www.ugent.be/nl/voorzieningen/cultuur/hetpand/historiek.htm),
Gent (Belgium) from April 6 (14h) to April 8th (12h), 2009. The
scientific programme committee has selected the following three broad
themes as the invited programme:
Biological versus Statistical Interactions
Invited speakers: Sir David Cox (Oxford University, U.K.), Anders
Skrondal (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway), Tyler
VanderWeele (University of Chicago, U.S.A.)
Mixture Models and Growth Curves
Invited speakers: Mario Cortina Borja (University College London, U.K.),
Richard Silverwood (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
U.K.), Stef van Buuren (TNO Quality of Life, The Netherlands)
Multivariate Survival Analysis
Invited speakers: Alioum Ahmadou (Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux II,
France), Robin Henderson (Newcastle University, U.K.), Hans van
Houwelingen (LUMC, The Netherlands)
The conference will start on Monday, April 6 (9h to 12h30) with an
optional `Crash Course on P-splines' given by Paul Eilers (University of
Utrecht, The Netherlands) and close with a keynote lecture given by
Thomas Schiex, (INRA, France).
You are invited to submit an abstract for a contributed oral/poster
presentation. Contributions may cover a wide range of topics, but
contributions devoted to one of the topics of the invited sessions are
particularly encouraged. Deadine for abstracts is: January 15, 2009.
More information will soon be available on the conference website:
http://www.cvstat.ugent.be/
For your information, the Channel Network is a loose confederation of
IBS Regions, founded at the end of 2005, comprising the Belgian Region,
the British and Irish Region, the French Region and the Netherlands
Region. It is managed by a Steering Group with members drawn from each
of constituent regions, and currently coordinated by Hein Putter from
the Netherlands Region. The Channel Network Conference is intended to be
the major activity of the Channel Network, and will be held every two
years, with the venue rotated around the constituent regions.
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Stijn Vansteelandt Phone. ++32 9 2644776
Ghent University Fax. ++32 9 2644995
Dept. Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Krijgslaan 281, S9
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
Personal webpage: http://users.ugent.be/~svsteela
Center for Statistics: http://www.cvstat.ugent.be
Master in Statistical Data Analysis: http://www.mastat.ugent.be
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