Helsinki

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My collaborators got me a studio on a different campus of the university. I'm also getting $1000, which I hope can pay for the flights (although currently, my best deal is $1228). Then there's registration fees: 650Euro, unless I can claim to be a student by the time I register (which I can't), in which case 365Euro.

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<< The apartments are fully furnished with linen, cutlery and television. A HOASnet Intenet connection and cleaning twice a month are included in the rent. The cleaning doesn't include washing dishes and taking out the garbage. There is a laundry room free of charge in the building. Tenants may reserve a sauna hour in Hoas Viikki local office situated in Cubile (open Mon-Fri 1 pm to 4 pm). The sauna is located in the student dormitory just across the street. There is a parking place free of charge - please notify Hoas of your car registration number to avoid parking tickets. In all matters except the sauna reservations and parking, please contact Hoas Kamppi office. >>

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I also found out that "plenary talk" means the whole conference will be watching me (my future employers, colleagues, etc.)! I'll want to practice it many times. Peter thinks it should be 25 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions. This is some serious incentive to try to run my method on real data... if I can find it! (Unfortunately, it seems economists usually publish summaries of their data, which make parametric assumptions)

In 2006, the proceedings published 72 papers. They had 26 plenary talks and 42 posters. (4 absentees?)

In 2007, there were 26 plenary talks (+ 4 invited talks) and 31 posters (that's 57 papers).

Also: << Note that all papers appear as full length papers in the UAI proceedings. The only difference between poster and plenary papers is the type of presentation at the conference.>>


In any case, it's exciting and scary!