st: Stata Conference 2011 in Chicago

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to invite everyone  
to participate in the Stata Conference 2011, to be held July 14-15th  
in Chicago.  The meeting will be held in the University of Chicago's  
Gleacher Center, right on the Chicago river in the heart of downtown.   
Chicago is a great place to visit in the summer, and the location of  
the conference will make it easy to take advantage of all the city has  
to offer.
Below is the call for presentations.  This year's organizing committee  
consists of Lisa Barrow, Scott Long, Richard Williams, and myself.   
Please contact one of us if you would like to discuss an idea for a  
presentation or have questions about the program format.  For those of  
you who have not attended a Stata users group meeting before, giving a  
presentation is a great opportunity to share what you are doing in  
Stata with others, and to get feedback from interested (and  
knowledgeable) users and from StataCorp developers.  And, as an added  
bonus, if your abstract is accepted for presentation, the conference  
registration fee will be waived (presenting author only).
We look forward to seeing everyone in Chicago!


-- Phil


Announcement and call for presentations
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The Stata Conference 2011 will be held at the University of Chicago  
Graduate School of Business' Gleacher Center. The Gleacher Center is  
located downtown on the bank of the Chicago River, just steps from  
Michigan Avenue and within walking distance of most downtown  
attractions.
Stata users' meetings are enjoyable and rewarding for Stata users at  
all levels and from all disciplines.  This year's program will consist  
of a mixture of user presentations, longer talks by invited  
presenters, and talks by StataCorp developers.  In addition, the  
program will include the ever-popular "Wishes and Grumbles" session in  
which users have an opportunity to share their comments and  
suggestions directly with developers from StataCorp.
All users are encouraged to submit abstracts for possible  
presentations.  Presentations on any Stata-related topic will be  
considered, including (but not limited to) the following:
    - new user-written commands, including commands for modeling and
      estimation, graphical analysis, data management or reporting
    - use or evaluation of existing Stata commands
    - methods for teaching statistics with Stata or Stata use itself
    - case studies of Stata use in novel areas or applications
    - surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields
    - comparisons of Stata to other software, or use of Stata  
together with
      other software

User presentations should be either 15 or 25 minutes long, each  
followed by 5 minutes for questions.  Longer talks will be at the  
discretion of the scientific committee.

Submission guidelines
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Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words (ASCII text, no  
math symbols) by using the web submission form at http://repec.org/chi11/chi11.php 
.  All abstracts must be received by March 14, 2011.  Please make sure  
to include a short, informative title, and to indicate whether you  
wish to be considered for a short (15-minute) or long (25-minute)  
presentation.  In addition, if your presentation has multiple authors,  
please identify the presenter.  The conference registration fee will  
be waived for the presenter.
If you would like to discuss an idea for a presentation or have  
questions about the program format, please contact a member of the  
scientific organizing committee. This year's committee consists of
    Lisa Barrow (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) <lbarrow@frbchi.org>
    Scott Long (Indiana University) <jslong@indiana.edu>
    Phil Schumm (University of Chicago) <pschumm@uchicago.edu>
    Rich Williams (Notre Dame) <richard.a.williams.5@nd.edu>

Presenters will be asked to provide electronic materials related to  
their talk (a copy of the presentation and any programs/datasets,  
where applicable) to the organizers so that the materials can be  
posted on the StataCorp website and in the Stata Users Group RePEc  
archive.
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