Classification Society of North America
Phipps Arabie, President
Mel Janowitz, President-Elect
Mike Larsen, Newsletter Editor

Classification Society of North America (CSNA) Newsletter

July 2005, Issue #69

Contents

           Notes from the Newsletter Editor
  Special Offer from CSNA
  Publisher Benefit to CSNA members
  CSNA Annual Conference Information
  CSNA Website Information
  CSNA List Server Information
  Books by CSNA members
  Conference Listings

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

      Greetings and Welcome to the Summer of 2005 edition of the CSNA Newsletter!

      This newsletter reports on the terrifically successful 2005 joint annual meetings of the CSNA and the Interface Foundation of North America that occured June 8-12 at Washington, University, in St.\ Louis. The Board of Directors of CSNA sincerely thanks Bill Shannon for his organizational efforts and for making the conference a truly enjoyable experience. If you have comments on the conference or suggestions for future conferences, please send email to me or, even better, to the CSNA list server (see this link below).

      The newsletter looks ahead to the Joint Statisical Meetings in Minneapolis (August 7-11). We encourage members of CSNA and others interested in classification and clustering to send emails to the CSNA list server (see this link below) to help make others aware of talks and sessions at JSM that might be of particular interest to members of CSNA and receipients of this newsletter.

      CSNA has a special offer for all and a special benefit for CSNA members through Springer, the publisher of the Journal of Classification. See below for details.

As always, suggestions, comments, and news items are welcome.

      Best regards,
      Mike

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Special Offer from CSNA

Stan Sclove, the CSNA Secretary/Treasuer reports that the remainder of the following items are still available, in limited quantities, at reduced rates:

Here is an order form: HTML version   DOC version.

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Publisher Benefit to CSNA members

SPECIAL NEW BENEFIT!
20% off on Springer books for the year 2005. When you join, you'll be sent a SpringerToken (alphanumerical code) which you can type in to get the discount when you order. Springer is the publisher for the Journal of Classification. Join today or renew your membership today to take advantage of this member benefit!

The website http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html describes the society and http://www.classification-society.org/csna/2005.html is a membership form.

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CSNA Annual Conference Information

The Annual CSNA Conference was held in St. Louis from June 8th to June 12th at the Washington University School of Medicine. The meeting was a joint meeting with the Interface Foundation of North America. The organizers were Bill Shannon, David Banks, and Rob Culverhouse. The theme was Classification and Clustering. By all accounts, the conference was a tremendous success. Attendance was very good. Several prominent researchers from a variety of disciplines gave interesting and well prepared key note and invited talks. Several young researchers gave exciting and well prepared invited and contributed talks.

The conference facilities at the Eric P. Newman Education Center at the Washington Unversity School of Medicine were top rate and well suited to the size of our group. The meals and snacks were very nice and more than adequate to keep conference attendees from going hungry. The conference banquet at the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame was a lot of fun. Several conference attendees enjoying testing their skill on the bowling lanes in the lower level of the museum. The updated web site for the conference is
http://ilya.wustl.edu/if_csna_2005_meeting/

where information on invited sessions, short courses, keynote speakers, registration, etc. can be found.

Following is an except from a letter sent to Bill Shannon from the CSNA Board: 
     Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 6:38 PM
     To: shannon
     Cc: "CSNA 2005 Board of Directors"; David Banks
     Subject: thanks from the CSNA Board 

     Dear Bill,

     The Board of Directors of CSNA has passed a resolution thanking you
     for (again!) organizing a super-excellent meeting. We express our
     heartfelt thanks for your hard work. 

     The joint aspect of the meeting, with the Interface Foundation, was a
     huge plus.   The invited talks were excellent, as were the short
     courses (with you doing yeoman's service and even giving a course
     yourself !). 

     The venues of EPNEC for the sessions and Parkway Hotel for lodging
     were fine facilities. 

     Your efforts were much appreciated.

     Sincerely yours,
     Stan
     Stan Sclove, Secretary, for the CSNA Board
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CSNA's Website Has Moved

As reported in the last 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 . Update your links and "favorites" for easy access to the society's web page!

If you have suggestions for the web site, please send them to CSNA Webmaster, Dave Dubin, ddubin at uiuc dot edu. Thanks.

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CSNA's List Server

The CSNA list server list (CLASS-L) is a resource for announcements, queries, and relevant statements about classification and clustering. To quote from the CLASS-L description:
    "The purpose of this list is to enable researchers in classification, clustering, phylogeny estimation, and related methods of data analysis to contact other researchers in that area. The list is not limited to members of particular professional societies. "
The address is http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l. CSNA encourages you to check it out if you are not already receiving email from this list.

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Journal of Classification

Issue No. 1 of the Journal of Classification for 2005 has been shipped! The publisher (Springer) changed printers for our Journal. Consequently, printing was slightly delayed. The journal should ship "on-time" in the future. Information on the journal can be found at http://www.classification-society.org/csna/joc.html and http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html.

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Books by CSNA members

Recent publications from Chapman and Hall/CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group) and SIAM. CSNA members have been keeping the presses hot! Congratulations to these authors!

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Conference Listings

JSM 2005

Joint Statistical Meetings
http://www.amstat.org/meetings/JSM/2005/
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA -- August 7-11, 2005.

CIBB 2005

http://cibb05.disi.unige.it/
Second International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Crema, ITALY -- September 15-17, 2005.

3rd Summer School on Pattern Recognition

http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/bcs-par/school05.html
3rd Summer School on Pattern Recognition Plymouth, UK 24 - 29 July, 2005.

8th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare

http://scw2006.bilgi.edu.tr
8th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul, 13-17 July 2006.

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/

Listings in previous newsletters

See Issue 67, January of 2005, and Issue 68, April of 2005, for additional listings.

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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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