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abstract: An introduction to using the PYTHON language in the statistical package SPSS (PYTHON scripts may be run in SPSS version 14 and later).

abstract: Healthcare workers in all departments are expected continuously to improve the quality, timeliness, and cost of their services to the community. Six Sigma is a management methodology which combines the waste and complexity reduction of lean manufacturing with quality improvement and statistical data analysis. Six Sigma is producing some important results in the healthcare arena in terms of improvement of services, breakthroughs in understanding and agreement, and new ways of working. Six Sigma and the twin methodology of Lean Six Sigma appeal to the practical enthusiasm of healthcare workers to get more for their patients and increase the effectiveness of the services they provide. This workshop details the history of Six Sigma, describes what it is and shows how it is implemented via case studies from healthcare providers in the US, Israel and UK.

abstract: Our understanding of infectious-disease epidemiology and control has been greatly increased in recent years through mathematical modelling. Insights from this increasingly-important and exciting field are now informing policymaking at the highest levels, for pandemic influenza, SARS, HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, foot-and-mouth disease and other infections.

This course is the ideal introduction for mathematical modellers who are considering entering this exciting field, and many past participants have been mathematicians. Course teachers have backgrounds in mathematics, physics, statistics, molecular biology, microbiology, and epidemiology, and are highly experienced in multi-disciplinary collaboration. The course emphasises how to express biological and clinical principles mathematically, and how to interpret results from a biological and clinical perspective.

Since 1990, this short course has introduced epidemiological modelling to public-health professionals, policy makers, and medical and veterinary researchers, and kept them up-to-date with what they need to know about this fast-moving field. It is taught by active researchers in the world-leading Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, which advises public health agencies, governments, international organisations, and pharmaceutical companies, and hosts the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis & Modelling, UNAIDS Epidemiology Reference Group secretariat, Partnership for Child Development, and the Gates Foundation-funded Schistosomiasis Control Initiative that has treated over 12 million children to date in six countries in Africa.

abstract: Signal processing constitutes an important area for the application of mathematical concepts and techniques fuelled, for example, by developments in mobile communications, multimedia systems and digital TV. The subject is still advancing rapidly in areas such as non-linear/non-Gaussian/non-stationary signal processing, digital communication systems, iterative estimation (e.g. turbo codes), blind deconvolution/signal separation and broadband systems. The last IMA conference on this subject was held in December 2006 and in response to popular demand, the next one will be held at the same location in December 2008. The aim of the conference is to bring together mathematicians, statisticians and engineers with a view to exploring recent developments and identifying fruitful avenues for further research. It is hoped that the meeting will help to attract more mathematicians into this important and challenging field.

abstract: The Conference is devoted to the modern aspects of the theory of random dynamical systems. The Conference is aimed to bring together knowledge from different fields of probability theory and stochastic processes related to this subject. The Conference will take place in Lviv, one of the oldest and most beautiful cities of Ukraine. It will be held in the building of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. During the Conference Social and Cultural Program will be organized.

abstract: The IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing is a unique meeting that brings members of the IEEE Signal Processing Society together with researchers from allied fields such as bioinformatics, communication, and statistics.

The conference will contain a number of special sessions organised by internationally recognised experts. The programme will also include presentations of new results in lecture and poster sessions, together with plenary sessions delivered by eminent scientists.