SRCOS SRC 2008, Charleston, SC

The Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology at the Medical University of South Carolina welcomes you to historic Charleston, SC for the 2008 Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference, June 8-11.

The conference theme is "Modern Semiparametric Methods in Action."
The keynote speakers are:

Raymond Carroll, Texas A&M University

Malay Ghosh, University of Florida

Michael Kosorok, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Xihong Lin, Harvard University

Thomas Louis, Johns Hopkins University

Pranab K. Sen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The scientific organizing committee consists of Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Elizabeth Slate, Barbara Tilley, Skip Woolson (Medical University of South Carolina), Debajyoti Sinha (Florida State University), and Bani Mallick (Texas A&M University).

The annual SRCOS Summer Research Conference is designed to bring together statistical researchers at all levels to learn about current areas of investigation and trends in statistics, including statistics education. The conference format consists of morning, early afternoon, and evening sessions, leaving late afternoons open for informal professional discussions and social interaction. Such interactions are important for the development of new researchers and graduate students, whose participation via contributed poster presentations is especially encouraged.

Conference sponsors include the ASA, which contributed funds towards travel support for graduate students and junior faculty, and the NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates program, which enables attendees from NISS/SAMSI affiliate institutions access to their affiliates reimbursement accounts to defray costs associated with attending this meeting. See the NISS/SAMSI ARA guidelines for more information. We also gratefully acknowledge support from the Medical University of South Carolina and its Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology.