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Contributed
Papers Chair |
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As Program Chair,
you get to appoint a Contributed
Papers Chair. If your meeting is a JSM you need
to appoint a contributed papers chair as both you and the
contributed papers chair serve on the JSM program committee. If
your meeting is with another group it is your decision. I
found it very helpful to have a contributed papers chair. |
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Non-statistician
speakers |
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You must contact
the main organizer of the meeting and have the registration
form mailed to any speakers who are not members of one
of the organizing groups. At JSM's nonstatistician
speakers can get complementary registration. The
same holds for the meetings with ENAR: see the ENAR
help file. |
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Abstracts |
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ENAR: In joint
meetings with ENAR, all abstracts must be submitted
online at the ENAR website. ENAR sends the abstracts
shortly after November 15th to the IMS Executive Director,
Elyse Gustafson. Contact the ENAR Program Chair
for an update. |
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JSM: All abstracts
must be submitted online at the ASA website. (If
an author cannot do this for some reason, then the
session organizer or Program Chair must do it.) All
abstracts submitted for an IMS session will automatically
be forwarded to the IMS Bulletin Editor and to the
Program Chair (if it is an invited paper) or to the
Contributed Papers Chair (if it is a contributed paper). The
Program Chair needs to inform ASA where the IMS abstracts
should be automatically forwarded. |
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WNAR: IMS
Abstracts are submitted directly to the IMS Program
Chair and at the meeting web site. This
may change - contact the Program Secretary for details. |
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Number
of Sessions |
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Usual Number of Sessions
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6-7 if only
with WNAR ( these include Medallion Lectures) |
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4-5 if with WNAR/SSC |
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8-9 sessions
with ENAR -- this includes Medallion
Lectures |
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6 in non-annual
IMS meetings at JSM (even years) - this
includes Medallion Lectures |
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30 in annual
IMS meetings at JSM (odd years) - these
include Medallions (two sessions), Wald lectures
(usually 3-4 one-hour talks - mostly 3), and Rietz
lecture (1 session) |
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9 sessions
in IMS Annual Meeting in even years -
these include Medallion Lectures (two sessions),
Wald lectures (usually 3-4 one-hour talks - mostly
3), and include a Neyman lecture (1 session) |
Number of Contributed Sessions:
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ENAR: 1-2
sessions. I think you might be able to the
ENAR chair to allow you to run topic contributed
sessions. |
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JSM:
6 or as many as we like - topic contributed paper
sessions are cool. |
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WNAR: as
many as you like. Usually the sessions end
up being joint with WNAR. |
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Money
for Speakers |
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In general there is no
IMS money regardless of the circumstances. When
the meetings are joint sometimes the joint partnership
has money. It does not hurt to ask. At JSM's
nonstatistician speakers can get complementary registration. The
same holds for the meetings with ENAR: see the ENAR
help file.
In 2000, JSM had some money available for travel
for non-USA invited speakers - talk to JSM Program
Chair.
IMS prepays the registration for all Medallion,
Wald, Neyman, LeCam and Rietz - they get a letter about
this from the IMS President. If one of these
speakers really has dire circumstances you can get
me to make a plea on this person's behalf to
the IMS Executive Board.
IMS pays the expenses of the Wald lecturer.
The LeCam Endowment (via IMS) pays the travel
expenses of the LeCam Lecturer. |
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Medallion,
Wald, Neyman, Rietz, and LeCam Sessions |
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The IMS
Program Chair appoints a chair for each Medallion Lecture
plus an optional 5-10 minute introduction by expert.
I recommend asking the speakers for suggestions. I know
the speakers' names - ask me. I suggest putting 2 Medallion
lectures per session. You can have one session with
2 Medallion lectures but no more than 2 Medallion lectures
per session.
Please see Medallion
Lectures for more information.
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Annual
Meetings of the IMS |
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In odd years at the JSM
and every other even year by ourselves. The IMS President
makes a presidential address one evening - this must be
scheduled. |
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Joint
Meetings |
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If your meeting is joint
with another society which is the primary organizer (ENAR
or JSM or SSC) then you need to get their abstract and
publishing deadlines for the preliminary and final programs. |
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Scheduling |
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Try to work with
the other societies' Program Chair in the scheduling of
the invited sessions. If there is are two sessions
which compete heavily for the same audience it is a mess! |
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Participant
Guidelines |
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If your meeting is a JSM or
joint with ENAR then be aware of the participant guidelines. The
main rule you need to be aware of here is the one paper,
one chair rule. Most importantly, an individual
can do only ONE of the following:
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Present an invited
paper |
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Present a contributed
paper or poster |
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Serve as a discussant,
panelist or other special participant in one invited
OR one special contributed session |
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Roundtable
and Speaker Luncheons |
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At the JSM we can organize Roundtable
and Speaker Luncheons. The
roundtable luncheon submissions are due to the ASA office
in early February. They are very popular and it
would be nice to have an IMS roundtable. You should
speak with the JSM Program Chair to see if all proposals
are accepted or if not, info on the selection process. |
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