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Provisional Detailed Program

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	Monday, July 3
8:45 – 9:00	Welcome to Delegates
9:00–10:15	Plenary Session 1: Professor David Donoho
10:15–10:45	Morning Tea
10:45–12:30	IPS 1A - Statistical & Machine Learning	IPS 1B - Disease Detection & Modelling	CPS 1A - Surveys and Management	CPS 1B - Statistics in Biology and Ecology	CPS 1C - Industrial Statistics
12:30–13:30	Lunch and Poster Sessions
13:30–15:15	IPS 2A - Saddle Point Methods	IPS 2B - Statistics in the Public Sphere: Risk Assessment and Forensic Statistics	IPS 2C - Education	CPS 2A - Surveys and Management	CPS 2B Statistical Computing
15:15–15:45	Afternoon Tea
15:45–17:30	IPS 3A - Statistics in Ecology & Environment	IPS 3B - Statistical Computing	IPS 3C - Young Statisticians	CPS 3A - Distribution Theory	CPS 3B - Statistics in Biology and Medicine	CPS 3 C - Industrial Statistics
17:30–19:00	Welcome Reception
	Tuesday, July 4 (Official Statistics Day)
8:50 – 9:00	Welcome for Official Statistics Day
9:00–10:15	Plenary Session 2: Professor Ray Chambers (Foreman Lecture)
10:15–10:45	Morning Tea
10:45–12:30	IPS 4A - Surveys & Management	IPS 4B - Multivariate Statistics in Ecology	IPS 4C - Computationally Intensive Statistics	CPS 4A - Statistical Methodology Inference	CPS 4B - Statistics in Biology and Medicine	CPS 4C - Statistical Education
12:30–13:30	Lunch and Poster Sessions
13:30–15:15	IPS 5A - Official Statistics Forum	IPS 5B - Statistical Genetics	IPS 5C - Stochastic Processes	CPS 5A - Statistical Methodology Bayesian	CPS 5B Statistical computation	CPS 5C - Statistics in Biology and Medicine
15:15–15:45	Afternoon Tea
15:45–17:30	IPS 6A - Resampling Methods	IPS 6B - Spatial Statistics and Smoothing	IPS 6C - Econometrics and Finance	CPS 6A - Surveys and Management	CPS 6B - Statistical Methodology Multivariate	CPS 6C - Statistics in Society
19:00–23:00	Conference Dinner
	Wednesday, July 5
9:00–10:15	Plenary Session 3: Professor Peter Hall
10:15–10:45	Morning Tea
10:45–12:30	IPS 7A - Bioinformatics	IPS 7B - Exact Methods of Statistical Inference	CPS 7A - Statistical Eduction	CPS 7B - Computational Statistics	CPS 7C - SM Probability and Stochastic Processes	CPS 7D - Surveys and Management
12:30–14:00	Lunch and Poster Sessions
14:00–15:45	IPS 8A - Bayesian Statistics	IPS 8B - Modern Goodness of Fit Methods	CPS 8A - Surveys and Management	CSP 8B - Statistics in Biology and Medicine	CPS 8C - Young Statisticians	CPS 8D - Statistical Methodology
15:45–16:15	Afternoon Tea
16:15–17:30	Meetings of SSAI, NZSA and ASPAI
	Thursday, July 6
9:00–10:45	IPS 9A - Multivariate & High Dimensional Data I	IPS 9B - Industrial Statistics	CPS 9A - Statistics in Biology and Ecology	CPS 9B - Statistical Methodology Bayesian	CPS 9C - Statistics in Biology and Medicine	CPS 9D - Statistical Methodology
10:45–11:15	Morning Tea
11:15–13:00	IPS 10A - Multivariate & High Dimensional Data II	IPS 10B - Medical Sciences	CPS 10A -Econometrics	CPS 10B - Statistical Methodology Inference	CPS 10C - Statistical Methodology Experimental Design/ Spatial Modelling	CPS 10D - Computational Statistics
13:00–14:30	Lunch and Poster Sessions
14:30–16:00	Plenary Session 4: Professor Xiao-Li Meng
16:00–16:30	Conference Close

 

 

Scientific Program

The Scientific Program for ASC/NZSA 2006 includes Plenary Sessions, Invited Paper Sessions, Contributed Paper Sessions and Poster Sessions. Short Courses will also be available.

 

› Plenary Sessions

There are four plenary sessions of 75 minutes duration. The three keynote speakers and the Foreman Lecturer will each present a 60 minute talk at one of the plenary sessions, with the remaining time being devoted to discussion or conference activities such as opening and closing.

 

› Invited Paper Sessions

The Invited Paper Sessions, which are of 105 minutes duration, have been developed by the Program Committee. An Organiser has been selected for each Invited Paper Session. There are two invited authors for each Invited Paper Session who will present 45 minute talks, with the remainder of time being allocated to discussion. Invited Paper Session Organisers are able to determine the discussion format. Other formats such as panel discussions are possible, subject to the approval of the Program Committee.

 

› Contributed Paper and Poster Sessions

Any person attending the ASC/NZSA 2006 Conference may submit a paper for presentation either in person at a Contributed Paper Session or as a poster at a Poster Session. More than one paper may be submitted for presentation.

 

Papers will not be refereed, but the Program Committee may refuse to include papers which are not suitable. The Program Committee will arrange the Contributed Paper Sessions. To assist in this, authors must provide keywords within their abstract body and their idea of a classification for the topic of their paper. The final program will be based on papers which are submitted. The Program Committee will allocate each paper to the most appropriate session. In some cases this may include recommending that a paper submitted for presentation at a Contributed Paper Session be transferred to presentation at a Poster Session.

 

Contributed Paper Sessions are of 105 minutes duration allowing for 5 talks of 15 minutes with 5 minutes discussion, plus 5 minutes of changeover time.

 

There will be one Poster Session each day during lunch time when presenters will be expected to be available to discuss their poster.

 

> Special Sessions for Young Statisticans
The conference strongly encourages participation by young statisticians and there are two important activities on the program especially for them. As part of the Welcome Reception on Monday evening there will be "young statistician's corner" where those new to the the Australian and New Zealand conferences can meet other recent members of the Associations. This will be a great chance to 'break the ice' and meet your younger colleagues.

 

There will also be a whole session on Monday afternoon (TBC) for young statistician at which a series of 15 minute presentations on interesting topics encountered by the speakers in their work. This ession is being organized by Jason Thomas of Statistics New Zealand and Ian Wood of Queensland Univertiy of Technology and speakers include: Richard Hutchinson (Covance), Petra Kuhnert (CSIRO Mathematics and Information Sciences), Victoria Wei (Statistics New Zealand) and Janice Wooton (Australian Bureau of Statistics).
Additional speakers will be announced in the future.

 

These sessions have been scheduled early in the conference to maximise networking among young statisticians!

If you are a new to the conference and would like to make a presentation there are options for contributed talks and contributed poster sessions.
The poster sessions are a great way to meet other people.