[BioC] Statistics in Biology Conference

[David Henderson]

The Department of Statistics at Iowa State University is pleased to
host an ASA and IMS co-sponsored conference on statistics in biology
this October 13 to 15.

The conference will feature a series of talks and posters on statistical
theory, methods, and applications motivated by problems from the
biological sciences.

Contributed talks or posters by students expecting a Ph.D. in 2009 or
new researchers who have received Ph.D. degrees in 2007 or 2008 are
especially welcome.  Limited financial support is available for such
participants.

Special invited sessions will include talks by:
- James Booth, Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Statistics
and Computational Biology, Cornell University
- Brad Efron, Max H. Stein Professor of Humanities and Sciences,
Professor of Statistics, Stanford University
- Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard University
- Charles McCulloch, Professor and Head, Division of Biostatistics,
University of California, San Francisco
- Michael Newton, Professor of Statistics and of Biostatistics and
Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Kathryn Roeder, Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
- Terry Speed, Professor of Statistics, University of California,
Berkeley.

Please visit http://www.stat.iastate.edu/Conference2008/ for more
information.

There is still time to register at a reduced rate, and to submit
contributed abstracts.

-- 
David Henderson, Ph.D.
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