XIX. European Stroke Conference Barcelona, Spain 25 - 28 May 2010

we are pleased to inform you about the following topics: 1. ESC 2010 Barcelona 2. Call for Papers 1. ESC 2010 will take place in Barcelona, Spain from 25 – 28 May 2010. Registration for this conference will be available by the end of December 2010. For further information please visit www.eurostroke.eu or contact us by e-mail: esc@congrex.com 2. All participants (physicians, nurses, AHP) are invited to submit abstracts on one of the topics listed on the website for presentation at the ESC 2010. There are 2 different submission pages, one each for physicians and nurses/AHP. In order to standardise the abstract layout, we kindly ask you to read the guidelines on the website carefully. Abstract submission deadlines: Regular abstract deadline: 17 January 2010 Nurses/AHP abstract deadline: 19 March 2010 "Ongoing Trials" abstract deadline: 15 May 2010 We hope the content of this e-mail was valuable to you. With kind regards European Stroke Conference Administrative Secretariat

The R User Conference 2010
July 20-23
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

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Host:	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Sponsors:	R Foundation for Statistical Computing

About the Conference

useR! 2010, the R user conference, will take place at the Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from 2010-07-21 to 2010-07-23. Pre-conference tutorials will take place on July 20.

The conference is organized by NIST and funded by the R Foundation for Statistical Computing.

Following the successful useR! 2004, useR! 2006, useR! 2007, user! 2008, and useR! 2009, conferences, the conference is focused on:

1. R as the `lingua franca' of data analysis and statistical computing,
2. providing a platform for R users to discuss and exchange ideas how R can be used to do statistical computations, data analysis, visualization and exciting applications in various fields,
3. giving an overview of the new features of the rapidly evolving R project.

As for the predecessor conferences, the program consists of two parts:

1. invited lectures discussing new R developments and exciting applications of R,
2. user-contributed presentations reflecting the wide range of fields in which R is used to analyze data.

A major goal of the useR! conference is to bring users from various fields together and provide a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas: both in the formal framework of presentations as well as in the informal part of the conference in Gaithersburg.

Prior to the conference, on 2010-07-20, there are tutorials offered at the conference site. Each tutorial has a length of 3 hours and takes place either in the morning or afternoon.

Invited speakers:

Mark Handcock, Frank Harrell Jr, Friedrich Leisch, Michael Meyer, Richard Stallman, Luke Tierney, Diethelm Würtz

Program committee: Louis Bajuk-Yorgan, Dirk Eddelbuettel, John Fox, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, Richard Heiberger, Torsten Hothorn, Aaron King, Jan de Leeuw, Nicholas Lewin-Koh, Andy Liaw, Uwe Ligges, Martin Mächler, Katharine Mullen, Heather Turner, Ravi Varadhan, H. D. Vinod, John Verzani, Alan Zaslavsky, Achim Zeileis Organizing Committee: Kevin Coakley, Nathan Dodder, David Gil, William Guthrie, Olivia Lau, Walter Liggett, John Lu, Katharine Mullen, Jonathon Phillips, Antonio Possolo, Daniel Samarov, Ravi Varadhan Call for Papers: We invite all R users to submit abstracts presenting innovations or exciting applications of R on topics such as: Applied Statistics & Biostatistics Bayesian Statistics Bioinformatics Chemometrics and Computational Physics Data Mining Econometrics & Finance Environmetrics & Ecological Modeling High Performance Computing Machine Learning Marketing & Business Analytics Psychometrics Robust Statistics Social network analysis Spatial Statistics Statistics in the Social and Political Sciences Teaching Visualization & Graphics and many more. To submit an abstract, generate a pdf file using a template (preferred) for pdfTeX or for OpenOffice Writer and commercial friends, or generate a plain txt file. Submit the file via the abstract submission interface. Please keep abstracts to one page. The abstracts will be available in an online collection in a single pdf file. Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 1, 2010. Timeline of the Conference The scientific program of the conference will start the morning of Wednesday, July 21, and end in the afternoon on Friday, July 23. Prior to the conference, on Tuesday, July 20, several half-day tutorials will be held. Funding The Statistical Engineering Division of NIST has generously contributed funding to support those who otherwise would be unable to attend. As in years past, limited funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will also be available for graduate students and junior faculty at U.S. post-secondary institutions. Instructions regarding applying for support will be posted here on or about January 1, 2010. Sponsorship Potential sponsors of the conference can find more information here. Accommodation Information regarding accomodation near NIST is here. About NIST The NIST webpage links to information about the institute. Also note that there is a NIST YouTube channel. Travel Information regarding traveling to NIST is here. useR! 2010: Tutorials Before the official program, half-day tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, July 20th. Morning Douglas Bates: Fitting and evaluating mixed models using lme4 Peter Danenberg and Manuel Eugster: Literate programming with Roxygen Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn and Stef van Buuren: Handling missing data in R with MICE Frank Harrell Jr: Statistical presentation graphics François Husson and Julie Josse: Exploratory data analysis with a special focus on clustering and multiway methods Uwe Ligges: My first R package Daniel Samarov, Errol Strain and Elaine McVey: R for Eclipse Jing Hua Zhao: Genetic analysis of complex traits Alex Zolot: Work with R on Amazon's Cloud Afternoon Karim Chine: Elastic-R, a google docs-like portal for data analysis in the cloud Dirk Eddelbuettel: Introduction to high-performance computing with R Michael Fay: Interval censored data analysis Virgilio Gómez-Rubio: Applied spatial data analysis with R Frank Harrell Jr: Regression modeling strategies using the R package rms Olivia Lau: A crash course in R programming Friedrich Leisch: Sweave - Writing dynamic and reproducible documents John Nash: Optimization and related nonlinear modelling computations in R Brandon Whitcher, Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux, Bradley Buchsbaum and Jörg Polzehl: Medical image analysis for structural and functional MRI

Call for Abstracts!
Plan now to submit a competitive abstract for a poster or platform presentation for ACTRIMS 2010. The abstract submission site opens December 4.

Session Topics for the Saturday, June 5 meeting include

• Cell Replacement and Repair • Risk Management • Complications of Potent Immunosuppressive Agents in MS • Basic and Clinical Issues in Multiple Sclerosis

Young Researcher Awards
Travel awards and two $1,500 prizes for best platform or best poster presentation are available to presenters 35 years old or younger, i.e., born on or after January 1, 1975.

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This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. The 15th annual ACTRIMS meeting is jointly sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and ACTRIMS.

Organizational support for ACTRIMS meetings is provided by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in collaboration with the MS Society of Canada.

From:
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National Multiple Sclerosis Society
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