The 2011 Stata Conference will be held on July 14 and 15 at the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center. I’ve enjoyed meeting many enthusiastic Stata users at previous Stata Conferences, and I’m looking forward to seeing both familiar and new faces this year in Chicago.

The organizing committee recently posted a call for presentations on Statalist. That posting is included below.

To submit an abstract for a presentation, or to register for the conference, visit the conference webpage.

From: Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
To: Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject: st: Stata Conference 2011 in Chicago
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:21:32 -0500

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to invite everyone to participate in the Stata Conference 2011, to be held July 14-15th in Chicago. The meeting will be held in the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center, right on the Chicago river in the heart of downtown. Chicago is a great place to visit in the summer, and the location of the conference will make it easy to take advantage of all the city has to offer.

Below is the call for presentations. This year’s organizing committee consists of Lisa Barrow, Scott Long, Richard Williams, and myself. Please contact one of us if you would like to discuss an idea for a presentation or have questions about the program format. For those of you who have not attended a Stata users group meeting before, giving a presentation is a great opportunity to share what you are doing in Stata with others, and to get feedback from interested (and knowledgeable) users and from StataCorp developers. And, as an added bonus, if your abstract is accepted for presentation, the conference registration fee will be waived (presenting author only).

We look forward to seeing everyone in Chicago!

— Phil

Announcement and call for presentations

The Stata Conference 2011 will be held at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business’ Gleacher Center. The Gleacher Center is located downtown on the bank of the Chicago River, just steps from Michigan Avenue and within walking distance of most downtown attractions.

Stata users’ meetings are enjoyable and rewarding for Stata users at all levels and from all disciplines. This year’s program will consist of a mixture of user presentations, longer talks by invited presenters, and talks by StataCorp developers. In addition, the program will include the ever-popular “Wishes and Grumbles” session in which users have an opportunity to share their comments and suggestions directly with developers from StataCorp.

All users are encouraged to submit abstracts for possible presentations. Presentations on any Stata-related topic will be considered, including (but not limited to) the following:

• new user-written commands, including commands for modeling and estimation, graphical analysis, data management or reporting
• use or evaluation of existing Stata commands
• methods for teaching statistics with Stata or Stata use itself
• case studies of Stata use in novel areas or applications
• surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields
• comparisons of Stata to other software, or use of Stata together with other software

User presentations should be either 15 or 25 minutes long, each followed by 5 minutes for questions. Longer talks will be at the discretion of the scientific committee.

Submission guidelines

Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words (ASCII text, no math symbols) by using the web submission form at http://repec.org/chi11/chi11.php. All abstracts must be received by March 14, 2011. Please make sure to include a short, informative title, and to indicate whether you wish to be considered for a short (15-minute) or long (25-minute) presentation. In addition, if your presentation has multiple authors, please identify the presenter. The conference registration fee will be waived for the presenter.

If you would like to discuss an idea for a presentation or have questions about the program format, please contact a member of the scientific organizing committee. This year’s committee consists of

Lisa Barrow (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) <[email protected]>
Scott Long (Indiana University) <[email protected]>
Phil Schumm (University of Chicago) <[email protected]>
Rich Williams (Notre Dame) <[email protected]>

Presenters will be asked to provide electronic materials related to their talk (a copy of the presentation and any programs/datasets, where applicable) to the organizers so that the materials can be posted on the StataCorp website and in the Stata Users Group RePEc archive.