Hi everyone - I know you all love this mailing list as much as I do. Want to learn more about r? Please apply for our workshop! The advertisement is below, and applications are due June 15. We will offer scholarships to cover travel and lodging for students accepted into the course.
Announcement: We are pleased to announce an intensive short course on using R to perform comparative methods to be held in Santa Barbara on July 31-Aug 5, 2011. This course is funded by the National Science Foundation, and a number of stipends to cover or defray travel, room, and board are available to qualified students and post-docs. Topics covered will include an introduction to the R programming language, tree manipulation, independent contrasts and phylogenetic generalized least squares, ancestral state reconstruction, models of character evolution, diversification analyses, and community phylogenetic analysis. Course instructors will include Luke Harmon, Mike Alfaro, Todd Oakley, and Dan Rabosky. If you are interested please submit your CV along with a short (maximum 1 page) description of your research interests, background, and reasons for taking the course. Admission is competitive, and the best applications come from students with data sets to analyze. International applicants are welcome. Applications should be submitted online at http://bit.ly/liqVQ7 by 15 June 2011. Thanks- Luke Harmon and Mike Alfaro [email protected] Luke Harmon Assistant Professor Biological Sciences University of Idaho 208-885-0346 [email protected] [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo
