Dear colleagues,
I'd like to make you aware of the joint meeting of the British Classification Society and the data analysis working group (AG DANK) of the German Classification Society.
The meeting will take place Friday 8 November 2013 from 2 pm and Saturday 9 November 2013 ending around lunchtime at the Department of Statistical Science, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT.
Focus topic of the meeting is "Variable selection and dimension reduction in clustering and classification". There will be three invited speakers: Gilles Celeux, Paris; Mario Figueiredo, Lisbon; and Roberto Rocci, Rome.
The format of the workshop is the way AG DANK autumn meetings are usually held, which means that presentations can be contributed. Preferably, they should have a connection to the focus topic, but presentations on other topics related to clustering, classification and data analysis are also acceptable unless the number of presentations is too large. Meetings of both the BCS and the AG DANK have recently been fairly cosy, with much opportunity for discussion.
It is planned to make a data set available to the participants some time before the meeting. The data set can then be analysed by participants and results can be presented and discussed at the meeting. The data set should have a connection to the focus topic.
This is a call for presentations and a data set to be made available to participants. If you want to contribute a presentation, please tell me its title by 20 September 2013. Please tell me by 15 September whether you'd like to make some data available (note that probably only one data set will be used).
Please also tell me by 1 October if you plan to attend the meeting.
Up to date information on the meeting will be posted on
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche/agdank/agdankht2013eng.html
Best wishes,
Christian Hennig, [log in to unmask], local organiser
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Christian Hennig
University College London, Department of Statistical Science
Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, phone +44 207 679 1698
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