Annual Meeting 2015

The 2015 conference of the Alaska Chapter of the American Statistical Association will be held in Anchorage Alaska 25-27 August 2015. 

The meeting features a workshop on Generalized Additive Models (GAM) by Dr. Simon Wood (University of Bath, UK). The conference will held at the Leslie Holland-Bartels meeting room in Glenn A. Olds Hall (4210 University Dr) on the campus of Alaska Pacific University.

A block of hotel rooms has been reserved at Spring Hill Suites Anchorage University Lake (4050 University Lake Dr) which is is half a mile from Glen Olds Hall by car, and about an eighth of a mile on foot (through an off leash dog park). The hotel meeting rate of $190.00 per night is good from 8/22-8/29, but you must book by 7/25 to take advantage of the rate. You can make reservations by using the following link, Book your group rate: Alaska Statistical Meeting, or by calling 888-284-1887, and asking for the "Alaska Statistical Meeting" rate.

Check back here for more details as plans for the meeting fully develop.

The following are links pertinent to this year's meeting (links to files or to other web locations will become active when they become available):

Link Description
Agenda for Meeting
Summary of events for the 3-day meeting (check  back later)
Course Syllabus (pdf, 26 Kbytes) Short course syllabus
AK ASA Student Travel Award Application (link to Google Docs site) We have funds to support student travel, so please share the link to our travel-award application
Titles, Abstracts, Presenters Title, abstracts, and presenter information for the talks scheduled for last day of meeting (check  back later)
Meeting Information Link to 123Signup registration site with the with information about the short course and meeting, and registration details.
3-Day Registration Registration link for the 123Signup site.

All registrations should be made through this site. Payment for registration fees by credit card can only be made through the 123Signup site. Details for payment by check or on-site at the meeting are also provided.

Additional information about the registration event on 123Signup can be obtained at the "Meeting Information " listed above (or by pressing the “More Info” link on the registration page).

Registering through this site will require a creation of a profile the first time you use the system (it files by your email address), so if you used this system in previous years your email is likely already registered.

Note that meeting attendees need to register via the on-line registration process, if you can not register on-line, contact Jiaqi Huang (907-267-2327) for assistance. Also direct all registration questions to Jiaqi.