[R] Registration deadline, useR! 2010

2010-06-13 Thread Katharine Mullen
The final registration deadline for the R User Conference is June 20,
2010, one week away.  Later registration will not be possible on site!

Conference webpage:  http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010
Conference program: http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010/program.html

Registration:
  http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010/registration/registration.html

The conference is scheduled for July 21-23, 2010, and will take place at
the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

Following the successful useR! 2004, useR! 2006, useR! 2007, useR! 2008,
and useR! 2009, conferences, the conference is focused on:

   1. R as the `lingua franca' of data analysis and statistical computing,
   2. providing a platform for R users to discuss and exchange ideas on
  how R can be used to do statistical computations, data analysis,
  visualization and exciting applications in various fields,
   3. giving an overview of the new features of the rapidly evolving R
  project.

As for the predecessor conferences, the program will consist of two parts:
invited lectures and user-contributed sessions.  Prior to the conference,
there will be tutorials on R, descriptions of which are available at
   http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010/tutorials

INVITED LECTURES

Invited speakers will include

Mark Handcock, Frank Harrell Jr, Friedrich Leisch, Michael Meyer,
Richard Stallman, Luke Tierney, Diethelm Wuertz.

USER-CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS

The sessions will be a platform to bring together R users, contributors,
package maintainers and developers in the S spirit that `users are
developers'. People from different fields will show us how they solve
problems with R in fascinating applications.  The sessions are organized
by members of the program committee, including

 Dirk Eddelbuettel, John Fox, Virgilio Gomez-Rubio,
 Richard Heiberger, Torsten Hothorn, Aaron King, Jan de Leeuw,
 Nicholas Lewin-Koh, Andy Liaw, Uwe Ligges, Martin Maechler,
 Katharine Mullen, Heather Turner, Ravi Varadhan, H. D. Vinod,
 John Verzani, Alan Zaslavsky, Achim Zeileis.

The program will cover topics such as

 * Applied Statistics & Biostatistics
 * Bayesian Statistics
 * Bioinformatics
 * Chemometrics and Computational Physics
 * Data Mining
 * Econometrics & Finance
 * Environmetrics & Ecological Modeling
 * High Performance Computing
 * Machine Learning
 * Marketing & Business Analytics
 * Psychometrics
 * Robust Statistics
 * Social network analysis
 * Spatial Statistics
 * Statistics in the Social and Political Sciences
 * Teaching
 * Visualization & Graphics
 * and many more.

IMPORTANT DATES

*
**   2010-06-20 registration deadline
**(later registration NOT possible on site)
*
   2010-07-20   tutorials
   2010-07-21   conference start
   2010-07-23   conference end

We hope to meet you in Gaithersburg!

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Re: [R] Registration

2009-09-16 Thread Uwe Ligges



ogbos okike wrote:

Hi,
I have a question to post. But I have a problem finding the appropriate
forum. Some of the FAQ on pastecs are answered by
r-h...@stat.math.ethz.chmailing list. I searched to see if this
mailing list requires registration
or not. There was no information about that. I am a registered member of R-
help general mailing list


... which is the same as you found out now. So time to as the question.

Uwe Ligges


 but I am aware it is better to post my question to

a specific group in some cases.
If your mailing list requires registration, please help me with the web page
where I could do that.
Please also advise if your forum attends to questions on use of pastecs
package or if there is a better forum for that.
Thank you.
Ogbos

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[R] Registration

2009-09-16 Thread ogbos okike
Hi,
I have a question to post. But I have a problem finding the appropriate
forum. Some of the FAQ on pastecs are answered by
r-h...@stat.math.ethz.chmailing list. I searched to see if this
mailing list requires registration
or not. There was no information about that. I am a registered member of R-
help general mailing list but I am aware it is better to post my question to
a specific group in some cases.
If your mailing list requires registration, please help me with the web page
where I could do that.
Please also advise if your forum attends to questions on use of pastecs
package or if there is a better forum for that.
Thank you.
Ogbos

[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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[R] R/Finance 2009: Applied Finance with R -- Registration now open

2009-02-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel

   R/Finance 2009: Applied Finance with R
   April 24 & 25, Chicago, IL, US
  
   The first annual R/Finance conference for applied finance using R , the
   premier free software system for statistical computation and graphics,
   will be held this spring in Chicago, IL, USA on Friday April 24 and
   Saturday April 25.

   The two-day conference will cover topics as diverse as portfolio theory,
   time-series analysis, as well as advanced risk tools, high-performance
   computing, and econometrics. All will be discussed within the context of
   using R as a primary tool for financial risk management and trading.

   Assembled to talk over the two days are some of the industry's most
   recognizable authorities within the world of R and quantitative finance.

   R/Finance 2009 is organized by a leading group of R package authors and
   community contributors, and hosted by the International Center for Futures
   and Derivatives [ICFD] at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

   Conference registration is now open. Special advanced registration pricing is
   available, as well as discounted pricing for academic and student
   registrations. 

   More details and registration information can be found at the website at  

   http://www.RinFinance.com

   For the program committee:

Gib Bassett, Peter Carl, Dirk Eddelbuettel, John Miller,
Brian Peterson, Dale Rosenthal, Jeffrey Ryan


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