[Forum SIS] Announcement 'The biometrics of the menstrual cycle' - Padova Febr. 24th, 2014

[Patrizia Piacentini]

Conference announcement
'The biometrics of the menstrual cycle'
a conference in honour of Bernardo Colombo
Padova, 24th of February 2014
http://bernardo.stat.unipd.it

Dear all,
The Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova will 
remeber his founder, prof. Bernardo Colombo, by organizing a conference 
to celebrate his memory.
The conference will take place on February 24th, the day that would be 
his 95th birthday, at Santa Caterina building in Padova.
The conference is open to the participation of whoever. No conference 
fee is due, but registration is required, using the form available on 
this page.  More information are available at the website 
http://bernardo.stat.unipd.it.

The topic of the conference has been chosen by recalling the main 
interests of the last part of Bernardo's very long scientific life.
The speakers will be researchers who wants to honour him by analysing 
the datasets he collected on the cycle biometry.
Whoever wants remember Bernardo is welcome to contribute also to the 
project (see the webpage http://bernardo.stat.unipd.it/project.html).
We kindly remind you that the deadline for sending an abstract of no 
more than 4 pages is December 31, 2013.

Bernardo Colombo has been a scientist eclectic and involved in many 
different fields such as statistics, demography, biostatistics, 
economics, sociology, etc. (for a short biography see 
http://bernardo.stat.unipd.it/bernardo.html).
However, in the last 30 years of his long life he concentrated his 
interests to the biometrics of the menstrual cycle in particular by 
collecting two high quality databases.
To celebrate his memory we propose to whoever to participate to this 
project by working on one of these datasets.
These data are rich enough to be studied by scientists of different 
disciplines, not only biostatisticians, but also demographers, 
sociologists, epidemiologists, statisticians etc. so that they are open 
to be used by most of the people who knew Bernardo and had the occasion 
to prize him and his work.

Best regards
The organizing committee

http://bernardo.stat.unipd.it