The 1996 annual meeting of the Classification Society of North America will be held jointly with the Numerical Taxonomy Group at the Campus Center Hotel which is located in the center of the University of Massachusetts Campus. Both hotel and dormitory facilities will be available. Several restaurants are located in the hotel complex.
A short course will be held on Thursday, June 13, and there will be a welcoming reception that evening. Friday will consist of CSNA sessions, followed by the CSNA business meeting and a banquet. On Saturday, June 15, the morning will be devoted to CSNA sessions, while the afternoon will have joint sessions with the NT group, followed by an NT reception. The NT sessions will continue with a session on Sunday, and end early Sunday afternoon with the NT business meeting.
These meetings are traditionally both informal and interdisciplinary, with few (if any) parallel sessions. Abstracts of papers will be distributed, but there will be no formal proceedings of the conference. Speakers often discuss work in progress, as well as ideas for future research. A mix of applications, methodology and theoretical results are usually represented.
Sessions tentatively planned include:
General consensus theory.
Applications of graph theory to exploratory data analysis.
Classification in social network analysis.
Graduate student session.
Information retrieval.
Image analysis and restoration
Biological applications of consensus theory.
Reticulate evolution.
Keynote speakers will include
Donald Geman
of the University of Massachusetts
Herman Friedman of Fordham
Bruno Leclerc of C.A.M.S., Paris
Philippa
Pattison of the University of Melbourne
F. James Rohlf
of SUNY at Stony Brook
David Swofford
of the Smithsonian Institution
The organizers of the meeting encourage the presentation of
contributed papers that cover a wide range of applications
and methodology that involve exploratory data analysis
viewed in its broadest sense. Papers related to evolution
and molecular biology are of particular interest to the
numerical taxonomy group. Short abstracts of papers should
be sent to the appropriate program chair, as well as any
suggestions for symposia, special sessions, topics, panel
discussions, requests for further information, or other
contributions. The deadline for submission of abstracts is
April 15, 1996.
The program chair for the CSNA program is Melvin F. Janowitz, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA, telephone (413)-545-2871, Fax (413)-545-1801, e-mail csna96@math.umass.edu. The program director for the NT meeting is Pierre Legendre, Départment de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal , C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7, telephone (514)-343-7591, fax (514)-343-2293, e-mail legendre@ere.umontreal.ca.