SMCS Launch Day : April 30, 2010 (UCL)
What's the place for statistical consulting and computation in the academic world?
The SMCS is a Technological platform offering Statistical Methodology and Computing Support to the UCLouvain community and external clients. The SMCS is an entity of IMMAQ, an intersectorial research institute in the new UCL organisation.
This meeting, official start up day of the activities of the platform, will be an opportunity for statisticians or users of statistical methods and software to meet around common and multi-disciplinary themes.
Location:
Halles universitaires - Sénat académique
Place de l'Université, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
How to reach us?
General info and Map 
Registration
Registration is free but compulsory before April 16, 2010. Please use the following registration form
Programme (print 
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8:30
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Welcome and registration
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9:00
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Opening address
Benoît Macq (Prorector - UCL) and Claude d'Aspremenont, (IMMAQ President - UCL)
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9:10
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Bernadette Govaerts and Dominique Peeters (IMMAQ - UCL)
"SMCS - Past, present and future"
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9:30
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Invited presentation: Saskia le Cessie,
Department of clinical epidemiology and department of medical statistics and bioinformatics
Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
"Can statisticians and medical doctors speak together, work together....make research together?"
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10:20
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Annie Robert, IREC - UCL
"Some pitfalls in the analysis and inference from clinical studies"
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10:35
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Alain Guillet, SMCS - IMMAQ - UCL
"Implementation of a quality plan for the monitoring of blood treatment process for the Belgian Red Cross"
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10:50
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Coffee break
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11:15
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Invited presentation: Koen Knapen, SAS Institute, Brussels
"Statistical consulting is a collaborative endeavor"
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12:05
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Isabelle Thomas, CORE - IMMAQ - UCL
"The point of view of the geographer: computing spatial complexities"
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12:20
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Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant, IACCHOS - UCL
"Social scientists and computer scientists: an evolving team work"
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12:35
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Céline Bugli, SMCS - IMMAQ - UCL
"Data analysis to serve success at university: the «Passeport pour le bac» project"
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12:50
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Lunch
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14:00
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Invited presentation: Sébastien Lê, Université de Rennes, France
"R as a link between academic and industrial worlds: how R became a must in a decade?"
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14:50
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Xavier Draye and Nicolas Schtickzelle, ELI - UCL
"Statistics for earth and life sciences"
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15:05
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Invited presentation: Martin Theus, Telefónica o2, Germany
"There is no excuse for failing to plot and look!"
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15:55
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Closing address
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Rainer von Sachs (ISBA President - IMMAQ - UCL)
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16:00
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Cocktails
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