R help - Feb 2010 - useR! 2010, Submission/early registration deadline: March 1

Dear R-help members,

This message is to remind you that the submission deadline for abstracts
for the R User Conference, useR! 2010, is one week away:

        Submission deadline:  Monday, March 1, 2010

The deadline for early registration is also Monday, March 1, 2010.

I encourage you all to submit abstracts (to give a presentation, or to
present a poster).  More information regarding the conference is pasted
below.

best regards,
Kate Mullen, for the useR! 2010 organizing committee

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We are happy to announce that the R User Conference

   useR! 2010
   http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010

is scheduled for July 21-23, 2010, and will take place at the headquarters
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

Following the successful useR! 2004, useR! 2006, useR! 2007, useR! 2008,
and useR! 2009, conferences, the conference is focused on:

   1. R as the `lingua franca' of data analysis and statistical computing,
   2. providing a platform for R users to discuss and exchange ideas on
      how R can be used to do statistical computations, data analysis,
      visualization and exciting applications in various fields,
   3. giving an overview of the new features of the rapidly evolving R
      project.

As for the predecessor conferences, the program will consist of two parts:
invited lectures and user-contributed sessions.  Prior to the conference,
there will be tutorials on R, descriptions of which are available at
   http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010/tutorials

All R users are invited to submit abstracts on exciting applications of R
as specified in the call at
   http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010/#Call

The deadline for abstract submission (and early registration) is
   March 1, 2010.

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.

IMPORTANT DATES

   2009-10-01	open submission of abstracts
   2009-10-01	open registration
   2009-11-01	tutorial submission deadline
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** 2010-03-01	early registration deadline
** 2010-03-01	submission deadline for abstracts
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   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!