Dear Colleagues,
The Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut will host the
31st New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) on Friday and Saturday, April
21--22, 2017. More information can be found at
http://ness.stat.uconn.edu.Keynote speakers: Prof. David Madigan of Columbia University
and Prof. Xihong Lin of Harvard University.
Invited sessions: 20 invited sessions covering a wide variety of
theory/methods/applications.
Three full day short courses on Friday, April 21, 2017:
``Fitting mixed-effects models using the Julia language'' by Dr. Douglas Bates
of University of Wisconsin--Madison; ``Practical Integrative
Statistical Learning: Recent developments and Case Studies'' by Drs.
Robert Aseltine of UConn Health and Kun Chen of University of
Connecticut; and ``Subgroup Analysis and Treatment Scoring with
Application in Precision Medicine'' by Dr. Menggang Yu of University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
IBM Watson Research Lab Student Paper Competition: submission deadline
March 20, 2017.
Liberty Mutual Student Poster Competition: submission deadline April 3, 2017.
Please spread the attached flyers to those who might be interested.
Thank you very much.
Jun Yan
Professor
Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
215 Glenbrook Rd. Unit 4120 Storrs, CT 06269
Voice: 860-486-3416 Fax: 860-486-4113
Web:
http://www.stat.uconn.edu/~jyan/http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4jVhnnEAAAAJ&hl=enhttp://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search/author.html?mrauthid=743600