[R] Call for Tutorial Proposals and Abstracts for useR! 2012

[Frank Harrell]

Dear R Community,

The deadline for proposing half-day tutorials for useR! 2012 is January 
15.  If you would like to propose a tutorial and have not yet submitted 
a proposal to the web site, please do so by Jan. 15.  More information 
is below.  It is also not too early to submit abstracts for contributed 
presentations and posters.

Thanks!
Frank Harrell

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The international R User Conference useR! 2012 will be held June 12-15
at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with a
pre-conference full-day course offered on June 11.

     Participants are encouraged to submit a one-page abstract for oral
or poster presentation at the conference. Half-day tutorials will be
held in the morning and afternoon of June 12th. For tutorials, please
submit a one-page proposal with course outline and narrative description 
along with the target audience. Note that the deadline for tutorial 
proposals is January 15. All innovative and interesting applications of 
R are suitable. A list of topics from past conferences is available at 
the conference website:

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/useR-2012#Call_for_Abstracts_and_Tutorial

     Contributed oral presentations will be allowed 17 minutes, followed
by 3 minutes discussion. Following last year's success, all participants 
are invited to present a Lightning Talk, for which no abstract is 
required. The format for Lightning Talks is a 15-slide version of Pecha 
Kucha. Participants wishing to give a Lightning Talk must provide an 
informative title on their registration form.

     For regular talks and posters, please use the recently updated
LaTeX or Microsoft Word/LibreOffice Writer abstract templates available
at the conference website:

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/useR-2012#Templates

The deadlines for abstract and tutorial proposals are as follows:

Tutorial Submission: Jan 1 - Jan 15
Tutorial Acceptance Notification: Jan 16 - Jan 23
Abstract Submission: Jan 1 - Mar 12
Abstract Acceptance Notification: Mar 13 - Apr 15

The preferred method of abstract and tutorial proposal submission is via 
the web form at the conference website:

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/useR-2012#Online_Submission

Participants may register online beginning January 23rd. If earlier
registration is preferred, please contact Stephania McNeal-Goddard using 
the contact information here:

http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/useR-2012#Contact

See http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2011-2/RJournal_2011-2.pdf for
an article about the conference with more details, including a list of
some of the major Nashville area entertainment events occurring around
the time of the conference.

We look forward to seeing you at useR! 2012 in Nashville!

-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chairman      School of Medicine
                    Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University