[UAI] 7th Valencia Inter. Meeting on Bayesian Statistics in CanaryIslands

From: David Heckerman (heckerma@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 13:55:24 PDT

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    Dear Colleague,

    The Seventh Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics,
    sponsored by the Universitat de Valencia and the International Society
    for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), is dedicated to former Conference
    President Professor Dennis V. Lindley. It will take place from June
    2nd to June 6th, 2002, inclusive. As on previous occasions it will be
    a residential conference in a coastal resort: Playa de las Americas,
    on the South Coast of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands -- a Spanish
    province in the Atlantic Ocean. For information on this very special
    place, see http://www.canarias-digital.org/turismo. The conference
    venue is the Mare Nostrum Resort, an impressive five star complex by
    the beach, complete with conference rooms, spa center and casino. You
    can see the resort virtually at
    http://www.expogrupo.com/marenostrum.htm

    The V7 Programme Committee consists of Susie Bayarri, Jim Berger, Phil
    Dawid, David Heckerman, Adrian Smith, Mike West and Jose Bernardo, who
    also acts as Local Organizer. The programme will include one stream
    of 25 invited lectures followed by invited discussions, a second
    stream of 50 contributed talks, and (it is expected) over 150
    contributed papers in poster form.

    The invited programme is now complete, and posted at the conference
    web site http://www.uv.es/valencia7
    and at its US mirror site,
    http://www.stat.duke.edu/valencia7

    As in previous Valencia meetings, contributed papers will mainly be
    presented in the very popular plenary evening poster sessions. Space
    of about one square meter per paper will be provided. Electronic
    submission of a text-only abstract of about 250 words long, sent to me
    will be required before May 1st, 2002. Prior registration for the
    meeting by at least one of the authors will be required.

    The scientific program of the conference will include, for the first
    time in a Valencia meeting, Selected Contributed Papers (SCPs), to be
    presented in oral sessions. The SCPs will be selected from among
    submissions received, before October 15th, 2001, by a SCP Selection
    Committee appointed by ISBA. Unselected contributed papers will be
    eligible for poster presentation. The deadline for poster submissions
    is May 1, 2002. Detailed instructions for submitting abstracts will
    shortly be posted on the conference website and on the ISBA web site
    at http://www.bayesian.org/. For both SCP and poster submissions, at
    least one author must have registered for the meeting by the relevant
    deadline.

    The Conference will be preceded by a one-day postgraduate tutorial
    seminar on
    "Basic Concepts in Bayesian Statistics". This will consist of five 90
    minute lectures given by members of the Organizing Committee.

    Delegates will be expected to arrive on the afternoon/evening of
    Saturday June 1st, (opening ceremony Sunday morning) and leave on the
    morning of Friday June 7th (farewell dinner Thursday night). The
    closest international airport is the Reina Sofia Tenerife Sur airport
    (TFS), only 10 minutes drive away. This is well connected to the
    Spanish mainland and to many European cities, and has scheduled
    flights to some American airports, such as Caracas or Buenos Aires.
    Early booking is advised. Transportation between TFS airport and the
    conference venue will be provided. Note that there is a second,
    smaller, airport north of the island, the Los Rodeos Tenerife Norte
    airport (TFN); this is about 50 km north of the conference venue.
    Transportation to/from Tenerife North will not be provided.

    The registration fee (which will include transportation to/from
    Tenerife South airport, the farewell dinner, and several other items)
    will be about 200/100 EUR for delegates/accompanying persons. The
    accommodation cost for the full period, including breakfast and dinner
    (with wine), but no lunch, will be about 850/620 EUR on single/double
    room occupancy basis (at present time, 1 EUR =0.86 US$). Final
    costings will depend on the outcome of negotiations with sponsors, now
    under progress. Registration forms will be posted on the conference
    web page by the end of August.

    The organizing committee will shortly be submitting grant proposals
    for travel support for junior researchers and colleagues from
    developing countries. Application forms for financial support will
    eventually be posted on the conference web page.

    If you may be interested in attending Valencia 7, or if you just want to
    be included in the conference mailing list, and did not attend Valencia
    6
    (or have moved since Valencia 6), please send to the local
    organizer, jose.m.bernardo@uv.es the following information:

    Name:
    Affiliation:
    Postal address:
    Telephone:
    Fax:
    Internet address:
    Web address:
    Area(s) of interest within Bayesian Statistics:

    Further information and updates at the conference web site,
    http://www.uv.es/valencia7, and its US mirror site,
    http://www.stat.duke.edu/valencia7.

    All the best, Jose.

    -- 
    ____________________________________________________________________
    Prof. Dr. Jose M. Bernardo, Universidad de Valencia
    Dept. Estadistica, Fac. Matematicas, 46100-Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
    Tel.  +34.96.364.3560  (direct) or +34.96.386.4362 (office).
    Fax: +34.96.364.3560 (direct) or  +34.96.386.4735 (office).
    E-Mail: jose.m.bernardo@uv.es,
    Personal Web Page: http://www.uv.es/~bernardo
    Valencia 7 Web Page: http://www.uv.es/valencia7
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