Valencia / ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics

["Jose M. Bernardo" <jose.m.bernardo@uv.es>]

Valencia / ISBA Eighth World Meeting on Bayesian Statistics
June 1st-June 7th, 2006
Benidorm (Alicante), Spain
http://www.uv.es/valenciameeting

The scientific programme will include:

(i)  A set of 20 invited plenary thirty minute talks, followed by a
discussion initiated by an invited discussant; these will take place in the mornings.

(ii) A set 32 twenty minutes plenary contributed oral presentations
selected by the ISBA Conference Programme Committee, which  will take place in the afternoons.

(iii) A set of plenary poster sessions, the seminal means of communication of research by conference participants, which will take place in the evenings.

The Conference will be preceded by a  one-day set of tutorials, intended to provide a short review
of the main ideas in Bayesian Statistics. The tutorials will be delivered by members of the
Conference Programme Committee and will take place through Thursday June 1st.

Call for ISBA oral presentations

ISBA is organizing a limited number  of contributed oral presentations. A total of 32 such presentations will be scheduled, each of 25 minutes duration (20 minutes talk, 5 minutes for discussion).
Anyone interested in giving an oral presentation is invited to submit an abstract of no more than three pages (including references), accompanied by one additional page listing no more than five relevant published references by the author/s. Any additional pages will not be considered.
Submissions should be made via email to <isba06@qut.edu.au>.
Please use the header AbstractName where Name is the first author's name. Attach the abstract and accompanying page as .ps, .pdf or .doc files.

Abstracts will be accepted between 1st September and 30th October 2005. No late submissions will be accepted. The ISBA Conference Programme Committee will review and vote on the submissions during November, and the list of selected presentations will be available on the conference website by 15th December 2005.

The ISBA Conference Programme Committee comprises the following: Kerrie Mengersen (Australia, co-chair), Peter Mueller (USA, co-chair), Herbie Lee (USA, co-chair Finance), Jose Bernardo (Spain, past Chair; Valencia Programme Committee), Subashis Ghosal (USA), Paolo Giudici (Italy), Merlise Clyde (USA), Yanan Fan (Australia), Judith Rousseau (France), Cathy Chen (Taiwan), Richard Arnold (New Zealand), Paul Mostert (South Africa), Robert Wolpert (USA), Josemar Rodrigues (Brazil), Jiangsheng Yu (China), Antonietta Mira (Italy), Mark Steel (UK), Fabrizio Ruggeri (Italy).

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Prof. Dr. Jose M. Bernardo
Dept. Estadistica, Fac Matematicas
46100-Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
Tel and Fax +34.96.3643560 (direct)
Tel +34.96.3643087, Fax +34.96.3643258 (office)
www.uv.es/bernardo    <jose.m.bernardo@uv.es>
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