A second conference sponsored by the Lifetime Data Analysis Interest Group on Lifetime Data Science : Foundations and Frontiers will be held at the University of Pittsburgh May 29 – May 31, 2019 (Wednesday to Friday).
Three distiguished keynote speakers include :
Dr. Odd Aalen (University of Oslo)
Dr. Danyu Lin (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Dr. Ross Prentice (Hutchinson Cancer Center)
In addition there will be 40-50 invited sessions, a poster session, and a student paper competition.
SUBMISSION OF INVITED SESSION PROPOSALS
A limited number of spots are available for invited session proposals. Invited sessions will have 90 minutes allocated for them, with this being
made up by
a. 3 speakers allocated 25 minutes each + 15 minutes reserved for open discussion, or
b. 3 speakers allocated 20 minutes each + 1 discussant speaking for 10-15 minutes + open discussion
Speakers are expected to cover their expenses.
If you wish to organize a session, please send by October 1, 2018 the title of the session, the names, affiliations and email addresses of the proposed speakers, and the titles of their presentations to
Richard Cook
Program Chair,
Lifetime Data Science: Foundations and Frontiers
email: rjcook@uwaterloo.ca
cc: lids2019-program@uwaterloo.ca
SHORT COURSES
The conference will also feature three short courses to be held on May 29, 2019:
Jin Qin (NIH)
A New Perspective on Right Censored, Left Truncated and Length Biased Survival Data.
Ornulf Borgan (University of Oslo) and Sven Ove Samuelsen (University of Oslo)
Two Phase Studies for Lifetime Data
Hein Putter (Leiden University)
Dynamic Prediction using Landmarking
Co-chairs of the Local Arrangements Committee are Dr. Ying Ding (University of Pittsburgh) and Dr. Yu Cheng (University of Pittsburgh).
Additional information, including details on the student paper competition, will be available in the fall at lids2019.pitt.edu