[Forum SIS] Secondo annuncio: MCMSki III Conference, Park City Utah, January 5-7, 2011

[antonietta mira]

> The fourth joint international meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA 
> (International Society for Bayesian Analysis), nicknamed "MCMSki III", will be held at The Canyons 
> resort in Park City, Utah from Wednesday, January 5 to Friday, January 7, 2011. The central (but 
> not sole) theme of the conference will be  Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and related methods 
> and applications, and will feature 3 plenary speakers (Nicky Best, Mike Newton, Jeff Rosenthal) and 
> six invited sessions from internationally known experts covering a broad array of current and developing 
> statistical practice:
> 
> Environmental Health Statistics (organized by: Montse Fuentes)
> Modeling Dependence for High Throughput Data (organized by: Peter Mueller)
> Advances in MCMC for Genomics (organized by: Giovanni Parmigiani and Clelia DiSerio)
> MCMC for Computationally Intensive Inverse Problems (organized by: Dave Higdon)
> Bayes versus Frequentism in Observational Studies (organized by: Sander Greenland)
> In addition, a pre-conference "AdapSki" satellite meeting on adaptive and other advanced MCMC methods 
> will take place on January 3-4,  2011, with Profs. Christian Robert and Christophe Andrieu again serving as 
> lead organizers.  
> 
> Please see our conference website, 
> 
> http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/index.html
> 
> the AdapSki meeting site,
> 
> http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maxca/adapskIII/
> 
> and our registration page,
> 
> http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/registration.html
> 
> From here you will find links to the IMS-sponsored conference registration page,
> the Canyons lodging page, and our abstract submission page.  Please note the "early bird"
> registration deadline of *November 1, 2010*.  
> 
> Finally (and most importantly for some), we are very pleased to announce that we have received funds from 
> NSF, NSA, NIH, and ISBA sufficient to help support the travel expenses of perhaps 30 junior investigators 
> (defined as current PhD student, or less than 5 years since PhD).  Some of these funds (NSA) are restricted 
> to students from the U.S., while others (ISBA) are primarily intended for students from economically 
> disadvantaged countries. Information about how to apply for this support can be found at: 
> 
> http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/student.html
> 
> At the time you register for this support, in addition to the three required items you send by email 
> (copy of your CV, copy of your paper, and *brief* supporting note from your advisor), please also submit 
> your abstract on this page,
> 
> http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/abstract.html
> 
> and indicate whether or not you would like to be considered for one of 4 oral presentation slots in our 
> new Young Investigator Invited Session (10 am on Thursday Jan 6).  Please note that the deadline for 
> applying for this support is *October 22, 2010*; again, the deadline to register for the conference itself 
> without a late fee is November 1, 2010.
> 
> We look forward to welcoming you in Park City this January! 
> 
> Best, 
> 
> Brad Carlin and Antonietta Mira 
> MCMSki III conference co-organizers
> Shane Reese
> MCMSki III local arrangements chair
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