We are happy to announce that the R user conference useR! 2010 is scheduled for July 21-23, 2010, and will take place at the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. As for the predecessor conferences, the program will consist of two parts: invited lectures and user-contributed sessions (abstract submission will be available online starting from October 2009). Prior to the conference, there will be tutorials on R (proposals for tutorials should be sent before 2009-11-01). INVITED LECTURES Invited speakers will include Mark Handcock, Frank Harrell Jr, Friedrich Leisch, Michael Meyer, Richard Stallman, Luke Tierney, Diethelm Wuertz. USER-CONTRIBUTED SESSIONS The sessions will be a platform to bring together R users, contributors, package maintainers and developers in the S spirit that `users are developers'. People from different fields will show us how they solve problems with R in fascinating applications. The sessions are organized by members of the program committee, including Dirk Eddelbuettel, John Fox, Virgilio Gomez-Rubio, Richard Heiberger, Torsten Hothorn, Aaron King, Jan de Leeuw, Nicholas Lewin-Koh, Andy Liaw, Uwe Ligges, Martin Maechler, Katharine Mullen, Heather Turner, Ravi Varadhan, H. D. Vinod, John Verzani, Alan Zaslavsky, Achim Zeileis. The program will cover topics such as * Applied Statistics & Biostatistics * Bayesian Statistics * Bioinformatics * Chemometrics and Computational Physics * Data Mining * Econometrics & Finance * Environmetrics & Ecological Modeling * High Performance Computing * Machine Learning * Marketing & Business Analytics * Psychometrics * Robust Statistics * Social network analysis * Spatial Statistics * Statistics in the Social and Political Sciences * Teaching * Visualization & Graphics * and many more. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS Before the official program, half-day tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, July 20th. We invite R users to submit proposals for three hour tutorials on special topics on R. The proposals should give a brief description of the tutorial, including goals, detailed outline, justification why the tutorial is important, background knowledge required and potential attendees. The proposals should be sent before 2009-11-01 to useR-2010 at R-project.org. CONFERENCE WEBPAGE A webpage offering more information is available at http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010 IMPORTANT DATES 2009-10-01 open submission of abstracts 2009-10-01 open registration 2009-11-01 tutorial submission deadline 2010-03-01 early registration deadline 2010-03-01 submission deadline for abstracts Before 2010-03-15 notification of acceptance 2010-06-20 registration deadline (later registration NOT possible on site) 2010-07-20 tutorials 2010-07-21 conference start 2010-07-23 conference end We hope to meet you in Gaithersburg! The organizing committee: Nathan Dodder, William Guthrie, Walter Liggett, John Lu, Katharine Mullen, Jonathon Phillips, Antonio Possolo, Ravi Varadhan. _______________________________________________ R-announce at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce