NZSA 2011 CONFERENCE University of Auckland 28 - 31 August, 2011 www.nzsa2011.org.nz

We are delighted to invite you to the 62nd annual meeting of the New Zealand Statistical Association which will be held in the world class Owen G. Glenn Business School at the University of Auckland, New Zealand from Sunday 28th to Wednesday the 31st of August, 2011.

Themes
Papers are invited from any field of probability and statistics: please submit an abstract now! Student presentations are especially welcome. Submissions from academia and industry on all topics of statistical methodologies are welcome. The topics include, but are not limited to the fields of applied statistics, biometrics, bioinformatics, biostatistics, data mining, ecology, experimental design, genetics, probability and stochastic processes, statistical computing and statistical graphics, sample surveys, statistics education, quality improvement and industrial statistics. There will be a special session celebrating the contributions of Professor Alan Lee to the field and to the statistical community.

Travel Grants and Student Prizes
The NZSA has some funds available to support students at New Zealand universities travelling to the conference. There will be financial awards for the best student presentations, sponsored by Hoare Research Software.

Sponsors
The New Zealand Statistical Association gratefully acknowledges the financial support of this conference from SAS, Travelex and the University of Auckland as platinum sponsors.



Keynote and Invited Speakers

Trevor Hastie
Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, Stanford University
Xihong Lin
Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Robert Gentleman
Senior Director, Genentech
Nick Fisher
ValueMetrics Australia
Alan Welsh
EJ Hannan Professor of Statistics and the Head of the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at the Australian National University

See http://www.nzsa2011.org.nz/speakers.php for more information.

Abstract Submission
Abstracts may be submitted online in LaTeX format via the conference website. Submission by July 1st is preferable.

Registration
Registration is at www.nzsa2011.org.nz. Student registrations receive a 50% discount. Members of the NZSA and SSAI also receive a discount.

Conference Dinner
The conference dinner is to be held on the Tuesday evening (August 30) at the Bluestone Room in the city centre. The cost is included in the registration. Extra tickets may be purchased for $90 per person.

Accommodation
Delegates are asked to make their own arrangements as soon as possible. New Zealand will be hosting the Rugby World Cup approximately a week after the conference. Auckland also has performances of Cirque Du Soleil at the same time. Hotels expect to be extremely busy and conference attendees are advised to make bookings early. The conference organisers have reserved a small number of rooms at the Quest on Eden which may be booked through Alexandra Miliotis.

An extensive list of suitable accommodation providers and travel/tourism information, including a map of Auckland, will be provided on the conference website.