Conference Schedule

ACSPRI 2006 Conference Programme

Keynote Speakers:

Plenary presentations will be given by:
- Professor Merrill Shanks, University of California, Berkeley.
- Professor Michael Greenacre, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Keynote Speakers:

Michael Greenacre is Professor of Statistics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in 1978 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, under the supervision of Jean-Paul Benzécri, the originator of correspondence analysis. Since then he has authored and edited five books and numerous journal articles on correspondence analysis and visualization of categorical data. His most recent book, Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods, edited with Jörg Blasius, has just been published (Chapman & Hall, 2006) and he is presently preparing a second edition of his popular 1993 book, Correspondence Analysis in Practice. Apart from his university teaching, Michael has given short courses on correspondence analysis in Germany, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, South Africa, Spain and Norway. Recently he has also taught short courses on multivariate analysis for environmental biologists in Spain, Norway and Iceland.

J. Merrill Shanks is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Social Science Computing Laboratory (SSCL) within the campus organization for Information Services and Technology (IST). Within SSCL, Merrill also directs the Computer-assisted Survey Methods (CSM) Program, which is responsible for developing and supporting general-purpose software used by over 60 survey organizations and data archives, based on the Computer-Assisted Survey Execution System (CASES) and related capabilities for Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA). Based on CSM’s activities, Merrill is the author or co-author for an extended series of articles and presentations concerning information technology and survey research.

Merrill is the co-author (with Warren E Miller) of the New American Voter (Harvard University Press, 1996), a landmark study of voting behavior in U.S. Presidential elections. With various co-authors, he has produced a series of related articles and book chapters on American national elections and public opinion, and leads a continuing project called the Public Agendas and Citizen Engagement Survey (or PACES).With his colleagues, Merrill is currently preparing a major PACES-based report on the U.S. 2004 and 2006 elections, which is scheduled for publication in 2007.

During the 1970s, before developing CSM and SSCL, Merrill was the Director of the Survey Research Center on the Berkeley campus, and a founding member of the Board of Overseers for the American National Election Studies (ANES). He was also the initial Chair of the Michigan-based Data Documentation Initiative (DDI), which has produced an international standard for documenting survey-type data.

ACSPRI 2006 Conference Programme