[BioC] DSC final call and scholarships

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

This is a final call for abstracts;  the deadline for submitting
abstracts is October 15 2006.
Please forward and circulate to other interested parties.
[apologies for any cross-posting]

DSC 2007, a conference on systems and environments for statistical
computing, will take place in Auckland, New Zealand on February 15 & 16,
2007.

We invite abstracts on the development of software systems and computing
environments for interactive statistics.  The workshop will focus on,
but is not limited to, open source statistical computing.

*** Bioconductor Support ***

The Bioconductor Foundation has pledged US$1500 to support travel to the
DSC conference.  The allocation will be based on
merit and need;  preference will be given to contributors to the
Bioconductor project and attendees who also submit an abstract.

If you wish to apply for this support, please send an application to
dsc2007 at stat.auckland.ac.nz (include a brief CV and a statement that
demonstrates your eligibility, your need for support, and an amount of
support required - students should include the name of their
supervisor).
Successful applicants will be notified by email in early December.

The deadline for early registration for the conference is
December 1st (2006-12-01)
Please visit the conference web page at
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/dsc-2007/
and send abstracts (one page) to dsc2007 at stat.auckland.ac.nz

Paul
(on behalf of the Organising Committee)
-- 
Dr Paul Murrell
Department of Statistics
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand
64 9 3737599 x85392
paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/