You are warmly invited to attend the 59th Annual
Conference of the New Zealand Statistical Association, which will be held at the University of Waikato over
1-2 September,
2008.
Themes
Papers are invited from any area of probability and statistics.
Sessions are planned on statistical programming, statistical genetics
and stochastic processes There will also be a
statistics education
session that will be of interest to local teachers. Student presentations are especially welcome.
Invited Speakers
Prof Charmaine
Dean (Simon Fraser University) will give a keynote address. Further
invited speakers will be notified.
Follow these links for:
Registration Information
Registration Form
Abstract Submission
Programme Information
Accommodation Information
Local Organising Committee
AGM
The annual general meeting of the New Zealand Statistical
Association will be held at 4:30 pm after the last session on the first day of the
conference.
Social Events
There will be a reception at the University on Sunday 31st August,
at which registration and complimentary drinks and nibbles will be available
for registrants. There will be a conference dinner
at the Station on the evening of 1st September;
the cost will be $50 per head, which will include some drinks.
Satellite Workshop
A workshop
on Hidden Markov Models will be held at the Royal Society's rooms in Wellington on Wednesday 3 September 2008,
the day after the NZSA Conference concludes. The aims are to provide
a follow-up meeting to the earlier
NZIMA-funded programme on ‘Hidden Markov Models
and Complex Systems’, and to take advantage of
Walter Zucchini’s visit to Wellington as the
Shayle Searle Lecturer for 2008.
There is no charge for participants.
Student Prizes
Hoare Research Software will sponsor $1000 in student prizes. The
NZSA has some funds available to support students at New Zealand
Universities travelling to the conference. For further information
contact Jennifer Brown.
Sponsorship
We are grateful to Hoare Research Software for their grant towards
prizes for student talks; the Royal Society of New Zealand for hosting
the conference website; and Statistics New Zealand for sponsoring an
event for young statisticians.
For
enquiries, please contact Judi
McWhirter.
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