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Following the 2009 regional conference, attention turns this year to the biennial International Biometric Conference (IBC) in December 2010 in Florianopolis-SC, Brazil. However 2010 also offers the Eastern and Western North American meetings (WNAR and ENAR), as well as the Joint Statistical Meeting which includes both WNAR and ENAR. For more details, see below.
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 now available. Note that on the Monday there were some changes to the printed programme. And click here for photos!
The next regional conference will be in or near Sydney, with the following one likely to be in Western Australia, to be confirmed.
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.
2010
21-24 March 2010
Eastern North American Region (ENAR), New Orleans, Louisiana
20-23 June 2010
Western North American Region (WNAR), Seattle, Washington
31 July - 5 August 2010
Joint Statistical Meeting (with ASA)
Vancouver, BC, Canada, he@hep.med.harvard.edu
or www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2010
5-8 September 2010
Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting, Waseda University Waseda Campus, Tokyo
2011
20-23 March 2011
Eastern North American Region (ENAR), Miami, Florida
11-13 April 2011
Third International Biometrics Society Channel Network Conference, Bordeaux, France
www.ibs-channel-bordeaux2011.fr
8-13 May 2011
6th EMR-IBS Meeting, Aldemar Knossos Royal Hotel, Hersonissos, Crete
stat-athens.aueb.gr/~emribs/page/emr2011.html
30 July - 4 August 2011
Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) South Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach,
Florida
11-15 September 2011
ROeS Seminar and 2nd Central European Network (CEN) meeting joint with the
German Region and Group, Poland
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
- 1 July
2010
International Conference on Statistical Methodologies and Related Topics, in conjunction with NZSA Conference.
Palmerston North, New Zealand.
6-10 December 2010
Australian Statistical Conference 2010. Statistics in the
West: Understanding Our World
Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
www.promaco.com.au/2010/asc
12-15 July 2011
Australasian Applied Statistics Conference (GenStat and ASReml) (formerly Australasian GenStat
Conference), Novotel Rockford Palm Cove Resort, Palm Cove, near Cairns, North
Queensland, Australia
Contact: Carole.Wright@deedi.qld.gov.au, Conference Secretary