Cari colleghi,
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vi giro l'annuncio del prossimo L.J. Savage Award che premia due tesi di
dottorato che sviluppano temi di metodologia e applicazioni Bayesiane. La
scadenza e' il 30 settembre.
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Announcement: Leonard J.
Savage Dissertation Awards 2005
The International Society for Bayesian
Analysis
<http://www.bayesian.org> (ISBA) is pleased to announce two
L. J. Savage
Awards <http://www.bayesian.org/awards/Savage.html> of $750 each
for
2005 in the following areas:
Theory and
Methods: for a dissertation that makes important
original contributions
to the foundations, theoretical developments,
and/or general methodology of
Bayesian analysis.
Applied Methodology: for a
dissertation that makes outstanding
contributions with novel Bayesian
analysis of a substantive problem that
has potential to impact statistical
practice in a field of application.
The Savage Awards are co-sponsored by
the International Society for
Bayesian Analysis, the American Statistical
Association Section on
Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS), the Trustees of
the L. J. Savage
Memorial Fund, and NBER/NSF Seminars on Bayesian Inference
in Econometrics.
A dissertation may be nominated by the author, by the
advisor or other
reader, by the department chair or professor, or by any ISBA
member. A
dissertation may be nominated for only a single award year.
Nomination
is made by submission of the dissertation and a letter that
describes
the main theoretical, methodological, and/or applied contributions
of
the thesis and specifies that the thesis is being nominated for
either
the Theory and Methods award or the Applied Methodology
award.
The nomination letter and thesis should be sent as e-mail
attachments
to: Merlise Clyde, clyde@stat.duke.edu.
The files
containing the nomination letter should use the following
format:
"nominatorname_candidatename.pdf" (or
ps);
and the actual thesis should use the
format:
"candidatename_tm.pdf" (or ps) (for the
Theory Methods Award)
"candidatename_am.pdf" (or ps)
(for the Application Methodology Award).
Hard copy submission will be
accepted only under exceptional
circumstances. In this instance, please send
two hard copies of the
dissertation to: Merlise Clyde, Institute of
Statistics & Decision
Sciences, Box 90251; Duke University; Durham, NC
27708-0251 USA.
Deadline for receiving nominations for the 2005 Savage
Awards is
September 30, 2005.
The theses will be evaluated by the
Savage Thesis Evaluation Committee.
A pool of these will be selected from the
submissions and individuals
selected will be invited to give presentations
based on their
dissertations in the ISBA organized Savage Award Session at
the
Valencia/ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics
<http://www.isds.duke.edu/research/conferences/valencia/>,
in Benidorm
(Alicante, Spain) June 1st-7, 2006. Winners will be
selected from
this pool and announced at the Valencia/ISBA World
Meeting.