Classification Society of North America
Fionn Murtagh, President
William D. Shannon, President-Elect
Mike Larsen, Newsletter Editor

Classification Society Newsletter

March 2008, Issue #78

Formerly the Classification Society of North America (CSNA)

Contents

           Notes from the Newsletter Editor
  2008 CSNA Annual Conference Information
  Secretary's note
  Conference for Buck McMorris
  Conference Listings (and other notes)

This and previous issues of the newsletter can be read online through the CSNA web page ( http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html ) and here . All suggestions are welcome! (larsen at iastate dot edu).

Notes from Newsletter Editor

    Many thanks to outgoing President Mel Janowitz! In addition to serving as president, he was the organizer of the CSNA conference in 2006. You did a great job. Welcome to incoming President Fionn Murtagh! We look forward to your time in leadership.

    Renew your membership for 2008 if you have not already done so! Also, encourage your colleagues and your students to join as well. Just think: if each current member recruited one new member, then the society would double in size!

    The 2008 Classification Society meeting will take place at Washington University in St. Louis. Please consider attending and submitting an abstract. Other noteworthy conferences announcements include a Conference for Buck McMorris (May 9-10, 2008) and the Call for Papers for the IFCS 2009 conference.

    The Classification Society held its first annual "Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award." This represents a unique opportunity to recognize excellence in new and recent PhDs working in classification and clustering. See http://thames.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~fionn/classification-society/dissaward.html for information and http://thames.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~fionn/classification-society/dissaward-shortlist08.html for the short list of candidates.

    A new website has been set up! The address is: See http://thames.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~fionn/classification-society/.

    Official name change: In 2008, the CSNA is reverting to its former name: the Classification Society. This name reflects the broad membership in the society. See the homepage.

    The results of the CSNA Officers Election are as follows: President-Elect, Bill Shannon, to become President in 2010-2011. Elected Directors: Rebecca Nugent and Douglas Steinley, for 2008-2009. Congratulations to Bill, a big welcome to Rebecca and congratulations to Doug in continuing for another term on the Board. The current term of Phipps Arabie, Past President in 2006-2007, comes to an end. A very big thanks to Phipps for service over so many years to the Society. Fionn Murtagh has moved into the present role. Mel Janowitz is now the past president. Many thanks to Dave Dubin for running the ballot.

    Best regards,
    Mike

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CSNA Annual Conference Information

The 2008 Annual Meeting of the Classification Society (CSNA) is being organized by Doug Steinley (Univ. of Missouri) and Bill Shannon (Washington Univ.) to be held at the Washington University campus in early June (June 5-7).

Links to further information will appear on the Classification Society webpage in the near future.

Please do not hesitate to contact Doug or Bill directly or to send suggestions through the list server:
      Doug Steinley at steinleyd at missouri dot edu
      Bill Shannon at wshannon at wustl dot .edu

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Note from Stanley L. Sclove, Secretary

Be sure to renew your membership for 2008 if you have not done so. See here for the membership form and a list of the many benefits of joining. One of the new benefits is the opportunity to subscribe to the new journal Advances in Data Analysis and Classification (ADAC) at a favorable rate. Renew today and recruit a new member. Thanks.

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Conference for Buck McMorris 

Date:    Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:43:52 -0500
From:    Michael Pelsmajer 
Subject: Conference for Buck McMorris

I am pleased to announce that we will be holding a conference,
Friday-Saturday May 9-10, at Illinois Institute of Technology in
Chicago, IL, in honor of

     F.R. "Buck" McMorris

on the occasion of his 65th birthday, and his retirement as Dean of
the College of Science and Letters and Professor of Applied
Mathematics at IIT.  I hope that you can join us!

Profiles of Buck at IIT:
As professor 
As dean 

For details, see the conference website:


Best,
Michael J. Pelsmajer 
Applied Mathematics, E1 Room 206 
Illinois Institute of Technology 
Chicago, IL 60616
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Conference and Other Listings

IFCS 2009

The next IFCS Conference will be in Dresden, Germany, on 13-18 March 2009. See http://www.ifcs2009.de. A call for papers has been posted.

FCAP

Fordham Council on Applied Psychometrics (FCAP) Conference. June 26-27, 2008; Rose Hill Campus; Bronx, NY. See FCAP.

MULTICONF-08

The 2008 MULTICONF (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held during July 7-10 2008 in Orlando, FL, USA. We invite draft paper submissions.

COMPSTAT 2008

International Conference on Computational Statistics. Porto - Portugal, August 24-29, 2008. Conference webpage: http://www.fep.up.pt/compstat08/.

Other Listings

The IFCS conference page: http://www.classification-society.org/ifcsconf.html

American Statistical Association meetings page: http://www.amstat.org/meetings

The International Biometric Society conferences page: http://www.tibs.org/conferences.htm

Institute of Mathematical Statistics meetings page: http://www.imstat.org/meetings/

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About CSNA

The WWW and ascii version of the CSNA Newsletter is made available as a service of the Classification Society of North America (web site: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html ). Information on becoming a member of CSNA is available at the CSNA website.

CSNA Webmaster: Dave Dubin, ddubin at uiuc dot edu      
Newsletter editor: Mike Larsen, larsen at iastate dot edu

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