The 5th Workshop on Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

 

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A Published Springer Book on New Frontiers in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

 

Date: May 5 - 7, 2017

The keynote speaker is Dr. Tony Cai, Dorothy Silberberg Professor of Statistics, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a recipient of COPSS President's Award in 2008. There will be invited talks by distinguished researchers, and a poster session by young researchers and graduate students.

In order to encourage graduate students and young researchers to conduct a cutting-edge research, we organize a poster session. The workshop will be providing partial travel awards to selected conference participants. Priority will be given to senior graduate students, post-graduate, recent Ph.D's, junior faculty, and under-represented groups. Check the application of travel award for young and minority researchers.

Congratulations to the winners of Best Student Poster Awards for Georgia Chapter of the ASA: Scott Bruce, Temple University; Xinyi Li, Iowa State University; Yikai Wang, Emory University; Xue Yu, Georgia State University; Ruizhi Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology.

The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Georgia Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Chinese Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Group, International Press of Boston, the GSU Research Foundation, the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the GSU.