<div dir="ltr"><div>Caros</div><div> </div><div>segue anexo informações sobre a conferência </div><div> </div><div>First Latin American ISI Satellite Meeting on Small Area Estimation </div> A conferência reúne acadêmicos e profissionais com interesse nas técnicas e aplicações sobre Estimação em Pequenas Áreas. Vários especialistas já confirmaram presença.<div> </div><div>Aproveito para destacar que há possibilidade de concorrer a financiamento do Banco Mundial para participar desta conferência que é um evento satélite do ISI - WSC2015.</div><div> </div><div>Destaco que entretanto, a data limite para solicitação de financiamento do BM é amanhã (16 de janeiro).</div><div> </div><div>Peço que divulguem a colegas que possa estar interessados no tema da conferência.</div><div>Abraços</div><div>Denise </div><div> </div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carolina de los Angeles Casas-Cordero Valencia <<a href="mailto:ccasascordero@uc.cl">ccasascordero@uc.cl</a>> Subject: SAE 2015: Encourage your colleagues to come to Chile!!!! To: Carolina de los Angeles Casas-Cordero Valencia <<a href="mailto:ccasascordero@uc.cl">ccasascordero@uc.cl</a>> <div> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;direction:ltr"> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;direction:ltr"> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;direction:ltr"> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;direction:ltr"> Dear All, I have some updates I´d like to share with you regarding the organization of SAE 2015 - the First Latin American ISI Satellite Meeting on Small Area Estimation (August 3-5, 2015, Santiago, Chile). We hope that this meeting will serve as a bridge between mathematical statisticians and practitioners working on small area estimation in academia, private and government agencies. This meeting in Santiago will give researchers an opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art small area estimation techniques from the experts in the field. Please share with as many colleagues and communities you think will be interested. Feel free to share the attached documents as well. Check the conference website for more information and updates <a href="http://www.encuestas.uc.cl/sae2015/):" target="_blank">http://www.encuestas.uc.cl/sae2015/)</a> Carolina Casas-Cordero Chair, Local Organizing Committee SAE 2015 Adjunct Assistant Professor Instituto de Sociología (ISUC) Universidad Católica de Chile 1. World Bank + ISI travel grant -------------------------------------------- Travel assistance grant for residents of developing countries. This year´s grant will cover costs to attend BOTH - the WSC in Brazil and a satellite meeting like SAE 2015 in Santiago. Please see details of what is covered, who´s eligible and more on the attached PDF and the ISI website: <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=52" target="_blank">http://www.isi-web.org/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=52</a> ***** Deadline for application is January 16th of 2015!!!! **** Please share ASAP if you know eligible persons! 2. Special Issue on SAE – JRSS series A --------------------------------------------------- On the occasion of the The First Latin American ISI Satellite Meeting on Small Area Estimation, the Joint Editors of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (JRSS) Series A are inviting submissions for a special issue of JRSS Series A devoted to Small Area Estimation. Please see the call for papers attached. This is great news and another good reason to go and promote among colleagues the submission of good papers to the conference! Please share the attached Call for Papers with journals, list servers and colleagues you know could be interested. 3. Call for Abstracts (Special Topic, Contributed and Poster sessions, 15-20 min) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are starting to receive abstract submissions. Three committee members are helping with the task of reviewing and organizing the incoming abstracts into “contributed”, “special topic” and “poster” sessions: Ray Chambers, Gloria Icaza and J.N.K. Rao. The abstract submission will end on April 15, 2015. See more details here: <a href="http://www.encuestas.uc.cl/sae2015/abstracts_sae.html" target="_blank"> http://www.encuestas.uc.cl/sae2015/abstracts_sae.html</a> *** Please encourage the submission of papers to the meeting! Remember the JRSS Special Issue!!*** 4. Invited talks (40-45min) - plenary ------------------------------------------------- We have confirmation for 6 invited talks: Fuller, Ghosh, Lahiri, Rao, Pfeffermann+Tiller, Luna+Tzavidis+Zhang. Please see in the conference poster attached. The Inaugural Talk will be delivered by Graham Kalton. Share and promote the attached conference POSTER among colleagues! 5. Invited special sessions and panel (90 min) - plenary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We have confirmation of 1 panel “SAE in official statistics”, organized by Ray Chambers and Domingo Morales. We have confirmation of 1 special session on “SAE Applications”, proposed by Danny and Partha, to be organized by Junni Zhang (Beijing Univ) and Carolina Franco (US census). 6. Registration fees and payment methods ------------------------------------------------------- There will be 4 fees for different types of attendees, before or on June 15th of 2015, in US dollars: Regular (U$550), IASS members (U$450), Developing countries, Chileans, WSC attendees (U$230), and Students ($115). After June 15th there will be a penalty of U$100 for all categories. The "student fee" will be available on a limited bases for those who apply for it. Eligibility criteria and application forms will be available on the conference website on February 2015. Registration will be available using international credit cards, starting February 2015. Please check the website for more details. </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>