Abstract
The ‘Conference Review: DSC 2009’ article from the 2009-2 issue.The sixth international workshop on Directions in Statistical Computing (DSC 2009) took place at the Center for Health and Society, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 13th–14th of July 2009.
The aim of the workshop series is to provide a platform for exchanging ideas about developments in statistical computing (rather than ‘only’ the usage of statistical software for applications).
We had 58 participants from many different countries. We listened to 26 talks in 11 sessions. Ten of the talks were given in plenary sessions and the rest in two parallel tracks. In keeping with the egalitarian nature of the conference, all talks had the same length, 35 minutes, including discussion.
The weather was slightly cool for high Summer in Copenhagen, but nicely dry, and the Conference dinner at the beautifully situated Furesø Marina turned out to be a very pleasant experience indeed.
Selected papers from the conference will be published as a special issue of Computational Statistics. The peer review process is currently ongoing.
The organizing committee, Peter Dalgaard, Claus Ekstrøm, Klaus K. Holst and Søren Højsgaard would like to thank
The Programme Committee: Roger Bivand, Peter Dalgaard, and Balasubramanian Narasimhan
Our host, the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Copenhagen
“Statistical Methods for Complex and High-dimensional Models” (a.k.a. the interfaculty Statistics Network at the University of Copenhagen)
The R Foundation
REvolution Computing for sponsoring the conference bags
NSF(USA) for travel grants
DIS Congress Service A/S
On behalf of the Organizing Committee.
Peter Dalgaard