R help - Jan 2004 - DATA MINING Conference – 30th January is the deadline for early-bird registration discount.

Apologies for cross posting....
Early-Bird Registration Discount Deadline

Just a quick reminder.
If you are interested in attending CART Data 
Mining 2004 (San Francisco), the EARLY-BIRD discounted registration 
deadline is January 30th, 2004.  Registration materials are available 
at: http://www.cartdatamining.com/RegCART04.pdf

Other deadlines:
Paper Submission: January 12th
Student Contest: January 10th
---------------------------------------------------------------------
CART Data Mining'04: First International CART(R) Conferences
    Focusing on the Data Mining technology of
Leo Breiman, Jerome Friedman, Richard Olshen, Charles Stone
    (CART, MARS(R), TreeNet(tm), PRIM(tm)...)
---------------------------------------------------------------------

  US Venue:  San Francisco, March 22-24, 2004
  EU Venue:  Madrid,        May   11-12, 2004

Conference home page: http://www.cartdatamining.com

----------------------------------------------------------

Keynote Speakers:

Leo Breiman,     University of California, Berkeley
Jerome Friedman, Stanford University
Richard Olshen,  Stanford University
Charles Stone,   University of California, Berkeley

Conference Sponsor:         Salford Systems, http://www.salford-systems.com

The conferences are intended to serve several functions:

o A festschrift and opportunity to honor the four
authors of CART and meet with them in person. Each
is planning to offer a keynote paper.

o A venue to exchange ideas and experiences focused
on the practice of data mining.

o A networking opportunity leading to the creation of
local user  groups and the establishment of a user
newsletter.

o A place to learn about extensions to CART related
technology and anticipated future developments

o An opportunity to obtain both basic and advanced training
offered by practical and theoretical experts

The conference series will provide an opportunity for data mining
professionals to exchange ideas on the art and practice of the real
world analysis of complex data.  Presentations will report on real world 
data and reflect applied data analysis utilizing CART, MARS, PRIM, and 
TreeNet, including innovative and unusual applications.

Breiman's Random Forests will be the subject of an introductory
tutorial.  A workshop devoted solely to RF will be scheduled separately.

Industry sessions:

Financial Services
Targeted marketing, customer Acquisition
Fraud Detection
CRM: Customer Retention
Risk management and score card development
Loss management in insurance
Financial Markets Modeling
Stock Selection and Portfolio Management
Business Cycle Forecasting
Telecommunications
Churn modeling
Collections management
Fraud detection
Bioinformatics, Healthcare and Medicine
DNA Microarray Data Analysis
Proteomics
Drug Discovery
Web Mining and Text Mining
User profiling
Recommendation Systems
Learning from Designed Experiments
     eCommerce
Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality Control
Semiconductor quality control
Public Sector, Defense, Security

Conference Participation

If you have an interest in attending this conference
please let us know via email at info at cartdatamining.com
Please contact me if you have any questions.

Best regards,
Lisa Solomon

Voice:(619)543-8880 x21, Fax:(619)543-8888
e-Mail: lisas at salford-systems.com
Homepage: http://www.cartdatamining.com