Subject: WORKSHOP: DEMA2008 Cambridge 11-15 August 2008
Designed Experiments: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications
DEMA2008
11 - 15 August 2008
Isaac Newton Institute
Cambridge, UK
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/DOE/doew02.html
Sponsored by JMP, GlaxoSmithKline, GenStat, Royal Statistical Society
and the Fisher Memorial Trust.
***Deadline for registration and contributed abstracts is 30 April***
DEMA2008 will bring together researchers and practitioners for the
interchange of new ideas on the design and analysis of experiments. The
workshop will emphasize both methodology and application areas and
should be of interest to scientists and engineers who use experiments,
as well as to statisticians.
This workshop will be held in the final week of a month-long research
programme at the Newton Institute and will provide a forum for the
sharing of new ideas and advances from this programme with a wider
audience. The workshop will have themes which reflect those of the
research programme; in particular, new methodology for the design of
genetics and proteomics studies, computer experiments and clinical
trials; also methodology concerned with multi-stratum designs, with
multi-tiered experiments, and with designs for nonlinear models; as well
as sessions on more general design topics. A theme day on each of these
three applied topics will be organised and participation from scientists
in each field is strongly encouraged.
Scientific Programme
There will be plenary talks by Professor Sir David Cox (Oxford) and
Professor R A Bailey (Queen Mary, London). The scientific programme also
includes invited presentations from over 25 leading researchers from
around the world. Scientific sessions will include Optimal Design,
Experiments in Genetics, Computer Experiments, Multistratum Experiments,
Clinical Trials, Choice Experiments and Industrial Experiments.
Abstracts for contributed talks and posters are encouraged, particularly
from early career researchers and PhD students. Abstracts should be
submitted online with the conference registration form
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/cgi/wsapply?CODE=doew02
The Scientific Advisory Committee is
Anthony Atkinson (LSE)
Steve Gilmour (Queen Mary)
Kathryn Chaloner (University of Iowa)
Susan Lewis (University of Southampton)
David Steinberg (Tel Aviv)
Henry Wynn (London School of Economics)
Early Career Scholarships
A number of scholarships is available to provide a modest contribution
to conference expenses for early career researchers (PhD students and
researchers within 5 years of obtaining a PhD) who contribute a poster
or talk. These will be awarded on the basis of a submitted abstract.
Other funding for early career researchers based in the UK may be
available from the Newton Institute's Junior Member scheme.
Workshop Venue
The workshop will be held at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, a
national and international visitor research institute for the
mathematical sciences. Cambridge is a historic University town, only 50
minutes from London. Accommodation is available in Wolfson Court, just
next to the Institute.
Important Dates
Registration closes: 30 April 2008
Deadline for contributed abstracts: 30 April 2008 Conference dates:
11-15 August 2008
Conference organisers
R A Bailey, Barbara Bogacka, Heiko Grossmann and Dave Woods
(
rab@maths.qmul.ac.uk;
bb@maths.qmul.ac.uk;
h.grossmann@qmul.ac.uk;
D.Woods@soton.ac.uk)