Category Archives: meeting

Report from the 2008 CSEE meeting

Posted on June 28, 2008 by

Ok – I know I promised to report back from the meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE) held at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. The two recent big wig meetings (both of which … Continue reading →

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CSEE 2008 – here I come!

Posted on May 10, 2008 by

I am on my way to the 2008 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). This year it is held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, my previous home base. It will be nice … Continue reading →

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Second-guessing Nature

Posted on May 7, 2008 by

Here’s a great quote from the latest Nature podcast, This is a wonderfully weird and strange creature. It is not that God has a fantastic sense of humor it’s just that we scientists can not always second-guess what we will … Continue reading →

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SciFoo 2008 – here I come!

Posted on April 30, 2008 by

Got an email the other day from Tim O’Reilly, Chris DiBona, and Timo Hannay inviting me to this years Science Foo Camp, or as they say: We’d like to invite you to join us on the weekend of August 8-10 … Continue reading →

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Are cows an endangered species?

Posted on September 26, 2007 by

Last march I went to a meeting at UCLA called Evolutionary Change in Human-altered Environments – an international summit. The meeting attendees consisted of a mix of your regular academic researchers and government official, policy and decision makers. It was … Continue reading →

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Open Source/Science – drilling down to unknown depths in unexpected places

Posted on August 12, 2007 by

Yet another point John Chambers addressed in his key note speech (see previous post Programing as a higher craft) was the virtue of Open Source software. According to John there are two principles for programing (with R) Enable effective and … Continue reading →

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Programing as a higher craft

Posted on August 11, 2007 by

In his keynote speech at the useR! meeting John Chambers of Statistics research at Bell Labs (one of the founders of the S System, which subsequently gave rise to the R project) asked the question what is programing? As it … Continue reading →

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Tablets as a teaching tool

Posted on August 10, 2007 by

Daniel Kaplan, a Mathematics & Computer Science prof from Macalester College gave a great talk about Using R for Introductory Calculus and Statistics. Aside from being a entertaining and funny speaker he used his tablet pc in a innovative and … Continue reading →

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Report from the meeting of the Ecological Society of America in San Jose

Posted on August 7, 2007 by

I am attending the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in San Jose. I have never been to a meeting of this magnitude before, some of the impressive stats are: 5 days long, around 3000 participants, 20-30 … Continue reading →

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Live bloggery from SciFoo 2007

Posted on August 4, 2007 by

This morning I share the lamentations of Pedro Beltrão of Public Rambling – SciFoo has started and I am no there! Ofcourse, since the cream of the scientific blogging community did get invited there is (as can be expected) plenty … Continue reading →

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Abstract for useR! 2007 poster

Posted on July 16, 2007 by

Here’s my submitted abstract for the poster I will be presenting at the useR! 2007 meeting in August. GillespieSSA: A stochastic simulation package for R Mario Pineda-Krch Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance University of California, Davis Abstract Stochastic … Continue reading →

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ESA 2007 – San Jose here I come!

Posted on July 12, 2007 by

Finally took the leap and decided to go the ESA (Ecological Society of America) meeting despite it clashing with the useR! meeting. After checking out their smörgåsbord of a program there were simply too many yummy temptations, e.g. Alan Hastings … Continue reading →

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useR! 2007 – Ames here I come!

Posted on July 7, 2007 by

Yesterday I decided that I will go the the useR! 2007 meeting after all. Initially I was a bit apprehensive, I was not sure if I had the time to spare and I like to present something when I go … Continue reading →

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Interview with Timo Hannay of Nature Publishing Group

Posted on July 4, 2007 by

John Dupuis of the Confessions of a Science Librarian has posted an interview with the Head of Web Publishing at Nature Publishing Group, Timo Hannay. It’s a long and frank interview where Timo discusses everything from his background in neurophysiology, … Continue reading →

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Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology galore

Posted on June 30, 2007 by

If theoretical biology rings your bell, particularly mathematical epidemiology, ecology and game theory then the the DIMACS 2002-2009 Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology should be right down your ally. This program consists of regular meetings in the form … Continue reading →

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