[useR-2010-announce] useR! 2010: submission & registration started!

[Katharine Mullen]

We are happy to inform you that the online abstract submission and registration 
for `useR! 2010' is now available online from

    http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010/

This meeting of the R user community will take place the Gaithersburg, 
Maryland, USA campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
(NIST), July 21-23, 2010.

The conference schedule is comprised of invited lectures and user-contributed 
sessions as well as half-day tutorials presented by R experts on July 20, 2010, 
prior to the conference.

Invited speakers will include
    Mark Handcock, Frank Harrell Jr, Friedrich Leisch, Michael Meyer,
    Richard Stallman, Luke Tierney, Diethelm Wuertz.

We invite you to submit abstracts on topics presenting innovations or exciting 
applications of R. The call for papers along with the link to the online 
abstract submission is available at
    http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010/#Call

Before the start of the official program, half-day tutorials will be offered on 
Tuesday, July 20.

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Reminder: tutorial proposals are due by November 1, 2009, as specified in the 
call for tutorials available at
    http://www.R-project.org/useR-2010/tutorials/
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We hope to meet you in Gaithersburg!

The conference committee,
    Kevin Coakley, Nathan Dodder, David Gil, William Guthrie,
    Walter Liggett, John Lu, Katharine Mullen, Jonathon Phillips,
    Antonio Possolo, Ravi Varadhan.