Greetings and Welcome to the Spring edition of the CSNA Newsletter!
This newsletter will be shorter than the previous edition and focus on
just a few topics. The primary subject is the 2005 CSNA-Interface
joint meeting in St. Louis. The early registration and abstract
deadline is Saturday, April 9th. We hope members take advantage of
the opportunity to enjoy what promises to be a very exciting
conference. I'll let the other notes speak for themselves. As
always, suggestions, comments, and news items are welcome.
As planned and described by CSNA Webmaster Dave Dubin in the last
issue of the Newsletter, the CSNA website has moved from the University of
Pittsburgh server, to a new host at the University of Illinois ISRL
(which also hosts the
IFCS website).
The new address is
http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html .
In addition to the server change, Dave will be experimenting with some
dynamically generated and interactive content for both the CSNA and
IFCS websites. He plans to make occasional announcements (on the sites
and in the newsletter) inviting members to try out a demo or
survey. They may seem trivial, but your participation will help him
work out some bugs before a more complex enhancement to the
site is undertaken.
Plans for this years Annual CSNA Meeting, held jointly with the
Interface Foundation of North America, in St. Louis are going
great. This years theme is Clustering and Classification and is being
organized by Bill Shannon, David Banks, and Rob Culverhouse. The
official conference announcement was mailed recently.
where information on invited sessions, short courses, keynote
speakers, registration, etc. can be found.
Abstract and Registration Deadline is 4/9/05
In addition to four excellent short courses, a list of invited
sessions covering a wide range of topics, we are having several
Keynote Speakers including CR Rao, David Scott, Sid Chib, Jerry
Friedman, Jon Kettering, and John Quackenbush.
As Bill Shannon wrote in the last edition of the newsletter,
"We hope you will make every effort to join us for what looks like a
fabulous and exciting conference covering cutting edge methodology and
applications."
Please feel free to contact Bill Shannon (wshannon at wustl.edu)
with any questions or comments.
Conference Listings
CSNA annual meeting, joint with Interface
Joint Annual Meeting of the Interface and the Classification Society
of North America: Theme: Clustering and Classification. http://ilya.wustl.edu/if_csna_2005_meeting/.
Washington University School of Medicine,
St. Louis, Missouri, June 8, 2005 - June 12, 2005.
See above for more
information.
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
