Abstracts
The deadline for submitting abstract is December 31, 2008. Abstracts should be 300 words or less. The Scientific Committee will review and select papers for presentation or poster sessions; authors will be notified of their inclusion on January 31, 2009.
Please email your abstracts to Vesa Kuusela, Statistics Finland
Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee, chaired by Vesa Kuusela, Statistics Finland, reviews abstract submissions for all papers, posters, and technical presentations and subsequently prepares the conference program.
Members of the committee include:
Vesa Kuusela (chair), Statistics Finland
Karen Bagwell US, Bureau of the Census
Sylvain Daubrée, INSEE
Hilde Degerdal, Statistics Norway
Jo Edwards, ONS
Lon Hofman, Statistics Netherlands, Blaise Team
Rebecca Lui, Statistics Canada
Jim O’Reilly, Westat Inc.
Mark Pierzchala, Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
Bill Connett/Gina-Qian Cheung, University of Michigan
Papers
The deadline for submitting papers is April 30, 2009. Please use the following guidelines for paper submissions: Guidelines
Please email your papers to Vesa Kuusela, Statistics Finland
"Tony Award"
The second "Tony Award" will be presented for the best paper and presentation of the 12th IBUC. At the end of the conference, the Scientific Committee will meet to select the best paper and presentation. The topic and style of written paper and the oral presentation will have equal weights.
In 11th IBUC the first Tony Award was given to Colin Setchfield (Office for National Statistics, UK) for his presentation of a paper titled Coping with people who just won’t stay put: The Use of Blaise in Longitudinal Panel Surveys. Runner-up was Rhonda Ash (University of Michigan, US) for the presentation of paper titled Case Scenario Library for Testing Large Blaise Applications which she prepared together with Jason Ostergren.
The "Tony Award" was initially unveiled at the 10th IBUC in 2006. The award is named after Tony Manners, formerly of the Office for National Statistics in the United Kingdom. Tony was one of the founders and first chairman of the International Blaise Users Group (IBUG). He was elected as chairman at the end of the very first International Blaise Users Conference in 1992 and continued in the role through the 7th IBUC which was held in Washington, D.C. in 2001.
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