Fw: [BAYES-NEWS] First Announcement: Fourth International IMS/ISBA Joint Meeting ("MCMSki III"), Park City, Utah, January 5-7, 2011

["Alexandra M. Schmidt" <alex@im.ufrj.br>]

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Meeting ("MCMSki III"), Park City, Utah, January 5-7, 2011

First Announcement:  Fourth 
International IMS/ISBA Joint Meeting
                           Park City, 
Utah, USA ("The Canyons")
    "MCMSki III":  Markov Chain Monte 
Carlo in Statistical Science

              Wednesday, January 5 to 
Friday, January 7, 2011

        website: 
http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/index.html

Following up on the success of the first 
three joint international meetings
of IMS (Institute of Mathematical 
Statistics) and ISBA (International
Society for Bayesian Analysis) held in 
Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, and
Bormio, Italy, the fourth such joint 
meeting will be held at The Canyons
in Park City, Utah, USA on *January 5-7, 
2011*.  The unifying theme of
the conference will be MCMC and its 
impact on the practice of statistical
science in diverse areas, such as 
genetics, genomics, environmental health,
epidemiology, and so on. However, since 
this is a joint meeting of two
diverse organizations, talks on a wide 
variety of  topics (both Bayesian
and
non-Bayesian) will be presented.

Each day will begin with a 50 minute 
talk by a plenary speaker, immediately
followed by an invited session, then 
lunch, and then an afternoon break
(where skiing/snowboarding will be among 
the options).  Following the break
will be another invited session, then 
dinner and posters; in short,
"Valencia style"
with ski/spa time replacing the usual 
beach time.  There will also be a
pre-conference
"satellite" meeting on adaptive and 
other advanced MCMC methods on
January 3-4,
with Prof. Christian Robert again 
serving as lead organizer (details to
follow).

We are very fortunate to have 
commitments the following three
outstanding plenary speakers:

Prof. Nicky Best, Imperial College 
London and St. Mary's Hospital
Prof. Michael Newton, University of 
Wisconsin
Prof. Jeffrey Rosenthal, University of 
Toronto

In addition, the members of the program 
committee (see below) have
assembled
an invited program that is as attractive 
as the conference venue, with
sessions on:

Modeling Dependence for High-Throughput Data
Advances in MCMC for Genomics
Bayesian versus Frequentist Approaches 
in Observational Studies
Environmental Health Statistics
MCMC for Computationally Intensive 
Inverse Problems

The meeting will take place at the 
conference center at "The Canyons",
located approximately 40 minutes from 
the Salt Lake City (SLC) airport
and readily accessible by public 
transport.  The airport is a hub for Delta
Airlines, now the world's biggest 
commercial air carrier.

We anticipate obtaining grant support 
from various federal sources to help
subsidize the cost of attending MCMSki 
III for young investigators (persons
within 5 years of receiving the PhD) 
presenting talks or posters at the
meeting.
In addition, ISBA has committed support 
for young researchers, with
preference
to senior/advanced students active in 
research, and preferentially to
students from
economically disadvantaged countries 
(rather than from the E.U. and the
U.S./Canada).

Further details, including registration 
fees, hotel accommodation, and
social events, are available from the 
official conference website,

http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/index.html

In particular, conference registration 
will be available online starting in
December, 2009 through a link from our 
site to an easy-to-use site
maintained
by the IMS.  All papers presented at the 
conference (either invited or
contributed)
will be eligible for publication in the 
official journal of ISBA,
/Bayesian Analysis,/
following a refereeing process;  see 
*ba.stat.cmu.edu*  for details.

*****

Program Committee:

Brad Carlin, University of Minnesota 
(Conference Co-Chair)
Antonietta Mira, University of Insubria 
(Conference Co-Chair)
Shane Reese, Brigham Young University 
(Local Arrangements Chair)
Clelia DiSerio, Università Vita-Salute 
San Raffaele
Montserrat Fuentes, North Carolina State 
University
Sander Greenland, University of 
California - Los Angeles
David Higdon, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peter Muller, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Giovanni Parmigiani, Harvard University

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Professora Adjunta
Instituto de Matemática - UFRJ
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