Conferences

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/