The fourth annual SLAMM! meeting will be April 15-16 in 2011.  As many of 
you who have attended know, we are conveniently and centrally located 
right between Boston and San Diego.  Last year we had NSF support and 58 
attendees making it the most successful St. Louis Area Methods Meeting 
yet.

This year we look forward to paper presentations from:

         - Jong He Park (University of Chicago)
         - Minjung Kyung (Washington University)
         - John Jackson (University of Michigan)

as well as discussants: Jake Bowers (University of Illinois, 
Urbana-Champaign), Patrick Brandt (University of Texas at Dallas), and 
Fred Boehmke (University of Iowa).  In addition, Andrew Martin (Washington 
University) will give a demo of data collection and management tools for 
the Supreme Court Database. See the webpage slamm.wustl.edu for title and 
schedule details.

FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS,... we have *again* obtained National Science 
Foundation support to add a 1/2 day (9-1 on Saturday with breaks) for 
graduate student paper presentations.  These are real, 1/2 hour, plenary 
presentations, not posters or 8.5 minutes at the national conferences. 
Supported graduate students will have their airfare (up to $400) and hotel 
expenses reimbursed, as done with the Society's Summer Meeting.  And 
that's not all! Each of the six presentations will be published in a 
future issue of The Political Methodologist (TPM) as a short research note 
(a short summary summarizing the longer paper in no more than 750 words, 
with at most 2 tables or figures).  Past SLAMM! graduate student 
presenters will soon be joining the faculties of Rutgers, Stanford, 
Georgia State, and elsewhere).  Of course ALL interested graduate students 
are welcome to attend in addition to those applying for and getting this 
support.  Brian Gaines (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and John 
Patty (Washington University) will be moderators for the Saturday session. 
See the graduate student link below to apply.  The deadline for applying 
for this support is March 1, which is fast approaching.

Registration by March 15 is required (only so we can accurately project 
food and space budgets; there is never a
registration fee for SLAMM!). The site for faculty is 
http://stats.wustl.edu/node/210, and the site for graduate
students is http://stats.wustl.edu/node/222.

We hope to see many of you here in St. Louis.  -Jeff


-Jeff

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Jeff Gill Director......Center for Applied Statistics
           Professor.....Department of Political Science
           Professor.....Department of Mathematics (by courtesy)
           Coursemaster..Clinical Research Training Center, School of Medicine
           President.....Society for Political Methodology, APSA Section
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