IBS Regional Conference
A biennial meeting is one of the main activities of the region, which enables members and non-members to come together to exchange ideas, learn about new research methodologies and applications, network and potentially establish important contacts and collaboration opportunities. These conferences are renowned for being intimate regarding numbers of participants, yet large enough to facilitate invited and contributed presentations as well as poster presentations. The program typically runs over several days with an optional social activity afternoon organised half-way to encourage further social and professional networking.
The last regional biennial meeting, Biometrics by the Lake, was held at Lake Taupo, New Zealand, on 29 November - 3 December 2009. Please visit the secure conference website for information about the conference. And see the information below for the two satellite workshops.
The 2009 conference presentations are available! Note that on the Monday there were some
changes to the printed programme. And click
here
for photos!
There were two satellite workshops attached to the IBS Regional Biometrics on the Lake Conference, but in Auckland the previous week. They were Cluster Randomised Trials (Wednesday-Thursday 25-26 November 2009) with Professor Martin Bland, and An R Workshop - Summer Fun with R (Friday 27 November 2009) with Associate Professor Thomas Lumley, one of the core R development team. Registration for the R workshop was through the regional conference registration, and for the Cluster Randomised Trials workshop through its own website. Note that the discount to IBS members or IBS conference attendees as a co-sponsored satellite workshop had no early bird deadline.
If you are interested in details of other past regional meetings such as where and when they have been held, numbers of participants, etc, then take a look here.
Other IBS regional conferences
For those able to travel further afield, other regional conferences are announced here as information comes to hand. Please contact the Website Manager with details if there are other conferences that could be listed here.
2009
Eastern North American Region (ENAR), San Antonio, Texas, 15-18 March 2009 www.enar.org
Channel Network, Ghent, Belgium, 6-8 April 2009 www.cvstat.ugent.be/ibs
Eastern Mediterranean Region, Istanbul, Turkey, 10-14 May 2009 www.ibs-emr2009.com
Japanese Region, Osaka, Japan, 20-22 May 2009
www.soc.nii.ac.jp/jbs
Nordic-Baltic Region, Tartu, Estonia, 10-12 June 2009
www.ms.ut.ee/NBBC09
Italian Region, Ponte di Legno, Italy, 10-12 June 2009 www.sib-biometricsociety.it
Western North American Region (WNAR), Portland State University, Oregon,
14-17 June 2009
www.wnar.org
Central America and Caribbean Region, Veracruz, Mexico, 27-31 July 2009 www.uv.mx/eib/
Brazilian Region, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 27-31 July 2009 54rbras@ufscar.br or www.rbras.org.br/rbras54
Joint Statistical Meeting (with ASA) Washington DC, USA, 1-6 August 2009 www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2009
Sub-Saharan Africa Network (SUSAN), Nakuru, Kenya, 24-28 August 2009. www.tibs.org/interior.aspx?id=528
Austro Swiss Region, Linz, Austria, 14-17 September 2009 www.meduniwien.ac.at/ROeS
Spanish Region, Cadiz, Spain, 23-25 September 2009 ceb2009.uca.es
2010
Eastern North American Region (ENAR), New Orleans, Louisiana, 21-24 March 2010 www.enar.org
Joint Statistical Meeting (with ASA) Vancouver, BC, Canada, 31 July - 5 August 2010 he@hep.med.harvard.edu or www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2010
2011
Eastern North American Region (ENAR), Miami, Florida 20-23 March 2010 www.enar.org
IBS International Conference
We also recommend attending the biennial International Biometric Conference (IBC) meetings, which are held in the off-year to our regional meetings. The last IBC was held in Dublin in July 2008. The next one is in December 2010 in Florianopolis-SC, Brazil
See below for further details of previous international conferences.
IBC Dublin 2008 www.conferencepartners.ie/ibcdublin2008 with photos and abstracts
IBC Montreal 2006 Photos only
IBC Cairns 2004 www.ozaccom.com.au/cairns2004
Other conferences of relevance
Other conferences of relevance to regional biometricians will be announced here as information comes to hand. If you have a conference of relevance to the biometrical community in Australia or New Zealand, then please contact the Website Manager with details.
29 June
to 1 July
2010
International Conference on Probability
Distributions and Related Topics in conjunction with NZSA Conference.
Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Massey University will host an international conference in statistical
distributions and their applications in conjunction with the NZSA annual
conference. The conference is devoted to all aspects of distribution
theory and their applications, including discrete distributions, univariate
and multivariate continuous distributions, copulas,
extreme values, skewed distributions, conditionally specified distributions and
life distributions in reliability engineering and survival analysis. Other
related topics are also welcome. Website: http://nzsa_cdl_2010.massey.ac.nz/
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