Hi all, Apologies to people who get more than one of these requests, or who don't go to the Joint Statistical Meetings. I'm looking for chairs for about a dozen contributed paper sessions sponsored by the ASA section on statistical computing at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver this year, Sunday August 1 to Thursday August 5. The duties of the chair are - introduce the speakers, pronouncing their names correctly - make sure the talks don't go over their allotted time. - if there is time for floor discussion, ensure that at least one question is asked. The rewards are also pretty minimal: the gratitude of the ASA and possibly of the speakers. -thomas Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle