Friday, April 12, 1996
in the Husky Union Building (HUB)
at the University of Washington, Seattle
Program
Auditorium and Foyer, 1st Floor, HUB
- 1:00 Poster session open
- 1:45 Paul Gustafson, University of British Columbia
- "Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling for Survival Data."
- 3:00 Coffee break and continuation of the poster session.
- 3:45 Richard A. Olshen, Stanford University
- "Tree-Structured Clustering, with Applications to Imaging and HIV Genetics."
Rooms 200ABC, 3rd Floor, HUB
- 5:15 Reception
- 6:00 Dinner: Choice of: Vegetarian lasagna ($14.00) or Prime rib ($21.50).
- Dinners include tossed salad, fresh fruit (w/ lasagna) or potato or rice (w/ prime rib), seasonal vegetables, roll, coffee or tea, and dessert.
- *** RESERVATIONS AND CHOICE OF ENTREE MUST BE MADE BY
- *** THURSDAY, APRIL 4 ***
- *** Contact Cheryl at 206-543-7237, or cheryl@stat.washington.edu ***
- *** You may pay for your dinner at the meeting, or pay Cheryl in advance ***
A poster session at the PNWSM will feature projects and research of current students, post docs, and recent graduates. The posters will be on display in the foyer just outside the HUB Auditorium.
A current (3/29/96) list of poster presenters and abstracts is available by by clicking above on "Poster Session".
Interested participants should email the following
information to
Paul Sampson by
*** THURSDAY, APRIL 4 ***
- Name
- Affiliation
- Poster Title
- Abstract (of 150 words or less)
(LaTeX or postscript files are welcome.) Each participant will be provided with use of an 8x4 ft poster board and thumb tacks. Further details will be supplied to participants.
We will grant up to three prizes - free dinners! - to the best posters according to a panel of judges from the participating institutions. The poster judging will give 50% weight to both the content and the presentation. The posters should be available for viewing from 1:00 to 1:45 (before the first talk) and from 3:00 to 3:45 (between talks). The winners will be announced at the dinner.
To help poster authors for the poster session at the upcoming (April 12), Pacific Northwest Statistics Meeting at the University of Washington, we thought that we would circulate the American Statistical Association guidelines for poster authors (from a couple of years ago).
The points made below are not all relevant to the poster session at the PNWSM (for example, poster papers will not be "eligible for Section Proceedings volumes"). We decided simply to include the entire set of guidelines rather than edit out the irrelevant parts.
Most relevant are the suggestions given below under the heading "Your presentation." We hope that the recipients of this posting will distribute this information to all prospective poster authors.
Faculty members: Encourage your students to submit poster abstracts!
ASA Guidelines for Poster Authors
Poster sessions run for two hours.
Purposes and Advantages
- Provide a format for papers whose contents can be more effectively communicated in ways other than an oral presentation.
- Provide a forum for topics under development or at a more tentative or preliminary stage that that required for a contributed or invited paper.
- Permit face-to-face extended discussions with individuals or small groups interested in the topic, which as the further advantage of providing direct feedback and reaction to the author.
- Provide a means for the display of extensive graphical and tabular materials, but this is not a requirement for the use of this presentation format.
- Poster papers are eligible for Section Proceedings volumes.
At the Meeting
- Locate your assigned space, and have your materials posted and organized before your scheduled time. The space will be available approximately 30 minutes ahead of time.
- Be present during the entire two-hour period. (This is an ASA regulation, not an option.)
Your presentation
- You may use anything from a periodic formal presentation to an informal discussion of the topic. You may have a handout or prepared paper. You may use visuals on video screen (which you provide) or on paper, or you may post visually appropriate materials.
- Do not display your typed paper or computer print-out--those should be in the form of a handout; in fact, no typed material should be displayed.
- You must provide your own title sign; lettering should be a minimum of 2" high. Posted materials should fit within the 4' high x 6' wide area of the tackboard and should be legible from a distance of 10-12 feet. Pretest the visibility of your posted materials before arrival at the meetings.
- The visual material should be simple and should communicate only the essential findings of the presentation--detailed materials, if needed, should be prepared as handouts. Professional drawings of charts and tables are preferred. Keep the display lightweight (not cardboard) so that tacks or tape can hold it.
- Posted materials should be numbered and arranged in the sequence in which they will be viewed.
- After your presentation is concluded, please remove your posted materials within an hour of your scheduled ending time.