st: UK Stata User Group meeting 2011: first call for presentations

[<S.Jenkins@lse.ac.uk>]

First Announcement and Call for Presentations

17th UK Stata User Group meeting
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Dates: Thursday 15 September and Friday 16 September 2011

Venue: Cass Business School
       106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ, UK
       (just off Finsbury Square in the City of London)

The programme will be announced later. See below for information about registration fees and reduced rates rates for paper presenters and students.

Scientific organisers:

Stephen Jenkins <s.jenkins@lse.ac.uk>, and Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>

Logistics organised by Timberlake Consultants, distributors of Stata in the UK, Brazil, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and Spain.  (Visit the Timberlake website at http://www.timberlake.co.uk/Stata/.)
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The London meeting is the longest-running series of Stata users meetings. The meeting is open to all interested. In past years participants have been from Britain, Ireland, other European countries, USA, and Australia.  StataCorp will be represented.

Presentation topics might include:

- discussion of user-written Stata programs,
- case studies of research or teaching using Stata,
- discussions of data management problems,
- reviews of analytical issues,
- surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields, etc.

Please email the scientific organisers if you are interested, indicating whether you wish to give:

(i) a 20 min talk (followed by 10 min discussion),
(ii) a 10 min talk (5 min discussion), or
(iii) a longer review or tutorial (about an hour).

The meeting will include the usual "wishes and grumbles" session at which you may air your thoughts to Stata developers, and (at additional cost) the option of an informal meal at a London restaurant on the Thursday evening.

Timberlake Consultants generously sponsors registration fee waivers for presentations (one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of number of authors involved).  Timberlake will also pay a small fee to a presenter of a longer review or tutorial paper. Presenters need to register.

Registration fees (covering attendance, lunch, and tea/coffee breaks):

Non-students - attendance to both days £80.00 excluding VAT (£96 including VAT)
Non-students - attendance to one day only £55.00 excluding VAT (£66 including VAT)
Students - attendance to both days £55.00 excluding VAT (£66 including VAT)
Students - attendance to one day only £40.00 excluding VAT (£48 including VAT)
Dinner (optional) - £30.00 excluding VAT  (£36 including VAT)

The scientific organisers look forward to hearing from you with presentation offers or to discuss the suitability of a potential contribution.  Confirmation of the programme, cost and venue, and details
of how to register, will be circulated in June 2011.

Potential visitors to London might like to know that, by British standards, September is usually relatively dry and warm.

Please contact us before 31 May 2011, and preferably sooner!

Stephen Jenkins                 Roger Newson
<s.jenkins@lse.ac.uk>           <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>

[For proceedings of previous Stata Users Group meetings so far, both in
London and elsewhere, visit http://stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html.]

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Stephen
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Professor Stephen P. Jenkins <s.jenkins@lse.ac.uk>
Department of Social Policy and STICERD
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6527
Survival Analysis using Stata: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/survival-analysis
Downloadable papers and software: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pje7.html



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