“Forthcoming Events: useR! 2011” published in The R Journal.
The seventh international R user conference, useR! 2011, will take place at the University of Warwick, Coventry, 16–18 August 2011.
Following previous useR! conferences, this meeting of the R user community will provide a platform for R users to discuss and exchange ideas of how R can be used for statistical computation, data analysis and visualization.
The program will consist of invited talks, user-contributed sessions and pre-conference tutorials.
The invited talks represent the spectrum of interest, ranging from important technical developments to exciting applications of R, presented by experts in the field:
Adrian Bowman: Modelling Three-dimensional Surfaces in R.
Lee Edlefsen: High Performance Computing in R.
Ulrike : Design of Experiments in R.
Wolfgang Huber: From Genomes to Phenotypes.
Brian Ripley: The R Development Process.
Jonathan Rougier: Calibration and Prediction for Stochastic Dynamical Systems Arising in Environmental Science.
Simon Urbanek: R Graphics: Supercharged - Recent Advances in Visualization and Analysis of Large Data in R.
Brandon Whitcher: Quantitative Analysis of Medical Imaging Data in
In the contributed sessions, presenters will share innovative and interesting uses of R, covering topics such as:
Bayesian statistics
Bioinformatics
Chemometrics and computational physics
Data mining
Econometrics and finance
Environmetrics and ecological modeling
High performance computing
Imaging
Interfaces with other languages/software
Machine learning
Multivariate statistics
Nonparametric statistics
Pharmaceutical statistics
Psychometrics
Spatial statistics
Statistics in the social and political sciences
Teaching
Visualization and graphics
Abstracts may be submitted for the poster session, which will be a major social event on the evening of the first day of the conference, or for the main program of talks. Submissions for contributed talks will be considered for the following types of session:
useR! Kaleidoscope: These sessions give a broad overview of the many different applications of R and should appeal to a wide audience.
useR! Focus Session: These sessions cover topics of special interest and may be more technical.
The scientific program is organized by members of the program committee, comprising Ramón Díaz-Uriarte, John Fox, Romain François, Robert Gramacy, Paul Hewson, Torsten Hothorn, Kate Mullen, Brian Peterson, Thomas Petzoldt, Anthony Rossini, Barry Rowlingson, Carolin Strobl, Stefan Theussl, Heather Turner, Hadley Wickham and Achim Zeileis.
In addition to the main program of talks and new for useR! 2011, all participants are invited to present a Lightning Talk, for which no abstract is required. These talks provide a 5-minute platform to speak on any R-related topic and should particularly appeal to those new to R. A variation of the pecha kucha1 and ignite2 formats will be used in which speakers must provide 15 slides to accompany their talk and each slide will be shown for 20 seconds.
Before the start of the official program, the following half-day tutorials will be offered on Monday, 15 August:
Douglas Bates: Fitting and evaluating mixed models using lme4
Roger Bivand and Edzer Pebesma: Handling and analyzing spatio-temporal data in R
Marine Cadoret and Sébastien Lê: Analysing categorical data in R
Stephen Eglen: Emacs Speaks Statistics
Andrea Foulkes: High-dimensional data methods with R
Frank E Harrell Jr: Regression modeling strategies using the R package rms
Søren Højsgaard: Graphical models and Bayesian networks with R
G. Jay Kerns: Introductory probability and statistics using R
Max Kuhn: Predictive modeling with R and the caret package
Nicholas Lewin Koh: Everyday R: Statistical consulting with R
Fausto Molinari, Enrico Branca, Francesco De Filippo and Rocco Claudio Cannizzaro: R-Adamant: Applied financial analysis and risk management
Martin Morgan: Bioconductor for the analysis of high-throughput genomic data
Paul Murrell: Introduction to grid graphics
Giovanni Petris: State space models in R
Shivani Rao: Topic modeling of large datasets with R using Amazon EMR
Karline Soetaert and Thomas Petzoldt: Simulating differential equation models in R
Antony Unwin: Graphical data analysis
Brandon Whitcher, Polzehl, Karsten Tabelow: Medical image analysis for MRI
Participants will be well catered for at the University of Warwick, with meals and accommodation available on campus. The university is in the city of Coventry which offers a number of places to visit such as the cathedral and city art gallery. In the heart of England, the city is within easy reach of other attractions such as Warwick’s medieval castle and the new Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres in Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare’s birthplace).
A web page offering more information on useR! 2011, including details regarding registration and abstract submission, is available at http://www.R-project.org/useR-2011/
We hope to meet you in Coventry!
Econometrics, Environmetrics, HighPerformanceComputing, MachineLearning, MixedModels, Psychometrics, ReproducibleResearch, SpatioTemporal, Survival
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BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2010-2-forthcoming-user,
author = {Turner, John Aston, Julia Brettschneider, David Firth, Ashley Ford, Ioannis Kosmidis, Tom Nichols, Elke and Heather},
title = {Forthcoming Events: useR! 2011},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2010},
note = {https://rjournal.github.io/},
volume = {2},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {79-80}
}