[R] ad: short course on advanced programming, other topics.

[Thomas Lumley]

The 16th Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics will be held June
13-July 1, 2011, in Seattle, at the University of Washington.

The course offerings include a 2.5 day module in "Advanced R
Programming", June 27-29 with Thomas Lumley and Ken Rice as
instructors.
This module covers use of R for advanced graphics, object-oriented
programming, use of SQL databases and other formats used with
large data files, some of the Bioconductor data infrastructure,
production of R packages, and calling C code from R. The module is
aimed
at people who have either substantial R experience or programming
experience in other languages. There is also a (very) introductory
module on R for genetics, June 15-17, by the same instructors.

Other modules cover statistics, classical and modern statistical
genetics, gene expression, and proteomics.

The web site is  http://sisg.biostat.washington.edu

Some scholarships (funded by NIH and NSF) are available for students.
US students can receive support for travel and tuition fees; overseas
students may be able to receive support for tuition fees, but not for
travel.  The deadline for scholarship applications is Friday, April 1.

For non-scholarship participants the deadline for early registration
is Monday, May 16.


   -thomas

-- 
Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics, University of Auckland
Affiliate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington.