I will be speaking at the Department of Statistics at Northwestern next Wednesday at noon.
http://www.statistics.northwestern.edu/seminars/index.html My emphasis will be on how Julia allows you to program in much the same way that you do in R but also allows you to extend to idioms far beyond those available in R. R and Matlab programmers spend years learning to vectorize calculations then find that Dahua Lin has written a Devectorize package for Julia, which seems heretical.
