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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Young ISBA Travel Awards for COBAL 2015</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The scientific Comittee of the COBAL 4 (Congreso de Estadistica Bayesiana de America Latina) is pleased to announce the competition for the 3 best posters and the 3 best oral contributions</span>
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 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to be presented in the next COBAL 4, to beheld by Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín - Colombia, in July 01 - 04, 2015. </span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Young ISBA Travel Award consists on</span>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> US$500,00</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">for each winner contribution to the meeting as oral or poster format. Oral contributions will be presented in the Young Doctor Session.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">To be eligible the participants should be PhD students or young researches (less than 2 years of their PhD exam).</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The candidate must send attached the abstract of her/his work and a regular student certification or the PhD certificate. Abstracts can be in English, Portuguese or Spanish.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The applicants must choose between Poster or</span>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Oral Presentation (</span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">
not both</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">). We recall that the oral presentations will be delivered in either Spanish or Portuguese. Applications for the oral presentation not selected can be presented as a poster upon the agreement of the applicant.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The candidates must send his/her application until<b>
 March 20th</b>. The result will be announced through the COBAL 4 webpage (</span>
<a href="http://www.medellin.unal.edu.co/~cobal/" style="font-size: 11pt;">
http://www.medellin.unal.edu.co/~cobal/</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
 </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">until April, 15</span><sup>
th</sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Sans Serif', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Documents for  oral contributions must be sent to  Rosangela Loschi (email: </span>
<span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:loschi@est.ufmg.br" target="_blank">
<span lang="EN-US">loschi@est.ufmg.br</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">
), and for poster contributions to Francisco Torres  (e-mail: </span>
<span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:francisco.torres@usach.cl" target="_blank">
<span lang="EN-US">francisco.torres@usach.cl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">IMPORTANT: It must be indicated in the subject of the e-mail "Young ISBA Travel Awards".</span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Scientific Committtee </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Sans Serif', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size: 11pt;">COBAL 2015</span></p><br style="font-family: 'Sans Serif', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
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