The ISBA 2016 World Meeting will be held at the Forte Village Resort,
Sardinia, Italy, from June 13th to June 17th, 2016.
Short courses will be held on June 12th, 2016 at the nearby University of
Cagliari.
See further details at the official conference website:
http://www.isba2016.orgThe Program Committee of ISBA 2016 invites submissions of proposals for
special topic sessions.
Each special topic session may typically consist of 3 talks with a common
theme. A discussant may be considered in addition to the 3 talks.
Other session formats
(e
.g., round tables, panel sessions, multiple
speakers…) may be considered but will need to be properly justified.
In any case, each session will have a duration of 1h 30' including questions
and organized/floor discussions.
Proposals should be submitted online at
http://bayesian.org/node/add/isba-session-proposal/by August 15th, 2015.
Please note that proposal submission does not require ISBA membership.
However, non-members will need to create an account on the ISBA website to
be
able to submit proposals.
Session proposers will be required to submit the following information:
- Meeting: ISBA 2016
- Meeting Program Chair: ISBA 2016 Program Chair.
- Session Type: Special Topic Session
- Session Title
- Session Organize
r: Name, email and affiliation.
- Session Proposal: The proposal should include an abstract with the
description of the session, the list of speakers with their affiliations and
contact information, and the tentative titles of the talks. The abstracts of
the talks may be included in your proposal but are not required by the
August
15th deadline. Please indicate if the proposed session is sponsored by one
or more ISBA Sections and in such case provide a brief statement to that
effect at the end of the proposal. The Scientific Committee will confirm the
sponsorship from the Program Chairs of the Section(s).
- Session Chair
Please, make sure to correctly fill the form with the in
formation outlined
above, in order to avoid routing the application to the wrong ISBA officers.
The proposals will be reviewed by the ISBA 2016 Program and Scientific
Committees.
Notification of acceptance of the proposals
will be sent by September 15th
2015.
The abstracts for the talks of the approved sessions are due on November 1st,
and should be uploaded at
http://bayesian.org/node/add/isba-abstract/All inquiries should be directed to the Program Council of ISBA:
program-council@bayesian.org or to Michele Guindani at
micheleguindani@gmail.comWe look forward to receiving your proposals.
Michele Guindani
ISBA Program Chair
on behalf of the Scientific Committee of ISBA 2016