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Hello, Here are some notes regarding local activities organized by the Colorado/ Wyoming Chapter of the American Statistical Association. ### JSM 2008 Denver This year will be a rather exciting year. Next summer, the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) will be held here in Denver from August 2 to August 7th. This should greatly increase the opportunities for member to attend neat meeting. You will be hearing much more about this in the months to come. The local chapter has several obligations for this meeting. We are organizing an invited session on statistical topic relevant to people in Colorado. In coming months, we need to help write the articles which will appear in Amstat News describing Denver. At the JSM, there will be a Meeting within a Meeting focusing on statistics in education. This event brings together teachers, speakers from the statistics community and people in local departments of education to learn how statistics can be better incorporated into elementary and high school curriculum. Much of this is organized and funded by the national organization. However, our help will be needed to advertise this opportunity amongst teachers and recommend possible speakers. Last year the first such meeting was held in Salt Lake City. The one-day event was a great success. This year it is hoped to expand it to two days. You will be hearing much more about this later. ### Local Meetings With regards to local meetings, this year we will hold a fall meeting at the new Anschutz Health Science Center (formerly Fitzsimmons), a winter meeting in Fort Collins and the spring meeting in Boulder at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Since the New Orleans Jazzfest begins April 25th next year, to avoid any conflicts, the spring meeting will likely be Friday April 18th, 2008. Some details about the Fall meeting are below. ### Fall meeting - Friday, October 26th 1pm - 4 pm. On Friday October 26th, we will be having a meeting at the new Anschutz Medical Campus (formerly Fitzsimmons) . In recent years, many departments have been moved from locations around 9th Street and Colorado to this new campus. More information about the new campus can be found at http://www.uchsc.edu/anschutzmedicalcampus/ Our main speakers will be Dr. Denny Lezotte from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Department of Preventative Medicine and Dr. Larry Hunter from the UCHSC Center for Computational Pharmacology. More details on their talks and other speakers will be forthcoming. ### Chapter Officers are Matt Pocernich - National Center for Atmospheric Research Matthew Strand - National Jewish Hospital Nels Grevstad - Metropolitan State College Denver Ryan Elmore - Colorado State University Thanks, Matt _______________________________________________ Cowystats mailing list Cowystats@ucar.edu http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cowystats |
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