<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">From: iasc2015buzios <<a href="mailto:iasc2015buzios@gmail.com">iasc2015buzios@gmail.com</a>> Date: 2015-02-24 17:52 GMT-03:00 Subject: Call for contributions for the IASC 2015 Satellite Conference in Búzios, Brazil To: <a href="mailto:abe-l-owner@ime.usp.br">abe-l-owner@ime.usp.br</a> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Call for papers: The <a href="http://www.ime.usp.br/%7Eabe/iasc2015/" target="_blank">IASC 2015 Satellite Conference</a> will take place in Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 2 to August 4, 2015 (right after ISI 2015), in the <a href="http://www.atlanticobuzios.com.br/" target="_blank">Atlântico Búzios Convention & Resort</a>. The conference will be sponsored by IASC and the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE). The event will be organized by the Department of Statistics of the Federal Universtiy of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), with support of the Department of Computer Sciences of the University of São Paulo (USP). The conference motto this year will be: Statistical Computing for Data Science. The conference will be a forum for the discussion and exchange of new ideas, concepts and recent methods regarding statistical computing for information society and data science. The call for abstracts closes the 31st of March 31, 2015. Possible topics include: <ul> <li>Analysis of Data Streams </li> <li>Analysis of High-dimensional data </li> <li>Big Data and Complex Data Analysis </li> <li>Bioinformatics </li> <li>Biostatistics and Clinical Trials </li> <li>Classification and Clustering </li> <li>Computer Intensive Methods in Statistical Analysis </li> <li>Computational Finance </li> <li>Computer Simulation </li> <li>Oil and Gas Data Mining </li> <li>Enviromental Statistics </li> <li>Exploratory Data Analysis </li> <li>Heavy Tails </li> <li>Machine Learning </li> <li>Multivariate Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis </li> <li>Network Analysis </li> <li>Robust Statistics </li> <li>Statistical Quality Control and Process Control </li> <li>Statistical Inference </li> <li>Time Series Analysis </li> </ul> The conference tradition is to have keynote lectures by prominent experts in the area together with talks and/or poster sessions by young researchers. The event usually has a round-table meeting dedicated to specific topics. The schedule will provide free time for an informal interaction. The keynote lectures will be held in the morning followed by contributed talks later before lunch. Búzios is one of the best Brazilian resorts, located in the Lakes Region of Rio de Janeiro. The Peninsula de Buzios has a very rich mild climate, clear waters and marine life, where all kinds of marine sport is practiced: surfing, SUP, kite surfing, canoeing, diving, etc. The Scientific committee is integrated by Dani Gamerman, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Paula Brito, University of Porto, Portugal; Francisco de Carvalho, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil; Luis M. Castro, University of Concepción, Chile; Chen-Houh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut, USA; Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, ESSEC Business School, France; Francisco Louzada Neto, University of São Paulo, Brazil; Ann Maharaj , Monash University, Australia; Fionn Murtagh, University of London, UK; Philip Wu, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong. The local Organizing committee is integrated by Carlos A. Abanto-Valle, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Co-chair); Andre P. L. F. de Carvalho, University of São Paulo, Brazil (Co-chair); Vinicius P. Israel, Federal Universitiy of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Victor H. Lachos, Campinas State University, Brazil and Luis E. Benites Sánchez, University of São Paulo (Technical Support). Deadlines: <big>Submission : March 31, 2015</big><big> Notification of acceptance : April 30, 2015 Registration and Hotel reservation (To be defined) </big> Registration Fees: <table border="1" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" height="295" width="508"> <colgroup><col width="150"></colgroup><colgroup><col width="184"></colgroup><colgroup><col width="130"> </colgroup><tbody> <tr valign="TOP"> <td width="150"> </td> <td width="184"> Early registration Before May 8, 2015</td> <td width="130"> Standard registration After May 8, 2015 </td> </tr> <tr valign="TOP"> <td width="150"> Member (IASC-ISI), ABE </td> <td width="184"> US$ 200 </td> <td width="130"> US$ 250 </td> </tr> <tr valign="TOP"> <td width="150"> Non-member </td> <td width="184"> US$ 300 </td> <td width="130"> US$ 350 </td> </tr> <tr valign="TOP"> <td width="150"> Student </td> <td width="184"> US$ 100 </td> <td width="130"> US$ 120 </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> For updated information, please visit the conference website: <a href="http://www.ime.usp.br/%7Eabe/iasc2015/" target="_blank">http://www.ime.usp.br/~abe/iasc2015/</a> or contact by e-mail: <a href="mailto:iasc2015buzios@gmail.com" target="_blank">iasc2015buzios@gmail.com</a> Regards, Luis Benites Sánchez IASC 2015 Satellite Conference in Búzios, Brazil <a href="http://www.ime.usp.br/%7Eabe/iasc2015/" target="_blank">http://www.ime.usp.br/~abe/iasc2015/</a> </div> </div> <div> </div>-- <div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Luana Takahashi</div><div>Secretária ABE</div><div>Tel: 11 3091-6261</div><div>Rua do Matão,1010 sala 250A</div><div><a href="http://www.redeabe.org.br" target="_blank">www.redeabe.org.br</a></div></div></div> </div>