The fourth joint international meeting
of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical
Statistics) and ISBA
(International Society for Bayesian
Analysis), nicknamed "MCMSki III", will
be held at The Canyons
resort in Park City, Utah from
Wednesday, January 5 to Friday, January
7, 2011. The central (but
not sole) theme of the conference will
be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and
related methods
and applications, and will feature 3
plenary speakers (Nicky Best, Mike
Newton, Jeff Rosenthal) and
six invited sessions from
internationally known experts covering a
broad array of current and developing
statistical practice:
* Environmental Health Statistics
(organized by: Montse Fuentes)
* Modeling Dependence for High
Throughput Data (organized by: Peter
Mueller)
* Advances in MCMC for Genomics
(organized by: Giovanni Parmigiani and
Clelia DiSerio)
* MCMC for Computationally
Intensive Inverse Problems (organized
by: Dave Higdon)
* Bayes versus Frequentism in
Observational Studies (organized by:
Sander Greenland)
In addition, a pre-conference "AdapSki"
satellite meeting on adaptive and other
advanced MCMC methods
will take place on January 3-4, 2011,
with Profs. Christian Robert and
Christophe Andrieu again serving as
lead organizers.
Please see our conference website,
http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/index.html
the AdapSki meeting site,
http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maxca/adapskIII/
and our registration page,
http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/registration.html
>From here you will find links to the
IMS-sponsored conference registration page,
the Canyons lodging page, and our
abstract submission page. Please note
the "early bird"
registration deadline of *November 1,
2010*.
Finally (and most importantly for some),
we are very pleased to announce that we
have received funds from
NSF, NSA, NIH, and ISBA sufficient to
help support the travel expenses of
perhaps 30 junior investigators
(defined as current PhD student, or less
than 5 years since PhD). Some of these
funds (NSA) are restricted
to students from the U.S., while others
(ISBA) are primarily intended for
students from economically
disadvantaged countries. Information
about how to apply for this support can
be found at:
http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/student.html
At the time you register for this
support, in addition to the three
required items you send by email
(copy of your CV, copy of your paper,
and *brief* supporting note from your
advisor), please also submit
your abstract on this page,
http://madison.byu.edu/mcmski/abstract.html
and indicate whether or not you would
like to be considered for one of 4 oral
presentation slots in our
new Young Investigator Invited Session
(10 am on Thursday Jan 6). Please note
that the deadline for
applying for this support is *October
22, 2010*; again, the deadline to
register for the conference itself
without a late fee is November 1, 2010.
We look forward to welcoming you in Park
City this January!
Best,
Brad Carlin and Antonietta Mira
MCMSki III conference co-organizers
Shane Reese
MCMSki III local arrangements chair
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