This is a great meeting. I'd strongly encourage those interested to apply to attend. Its very informal (you'll meet everyone) and very high quality. Gary ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 08:01:44 -0500 From: Rebecca Morton <rbm5 at NYU.EDU> Reply-To: Political Methodology Society <POLMETH at artsci.wustl.edu> To: POLMETH at artsci.wustl.edu Subject: [POLMETH] Call for Participation: the 2007 Summer Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting Call for Participation: the 2007 Summer Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting The 24th Annual Summer Methodology Conference will be held July 18-21, 2007, on the campus of the Penn State University. These meetings are sponsored by the Society for Political Methodology and the APSA Political Methodology Organized Section. Further support comes from the Penn State College of Liberal Arts, Department of Political Science, and Quantitative Social Science Initiative as well as the National Science Foundation. Attendance at the Summer meeting is by invitation. To apply to attend the meetings fill out the application form at the Society's webpage: http://polmeth.wustl.edu/methods2007/register/ Applicants stipulate their willingness to give a paper, act as discussant, present a poster (all graduate students), or simply attend. To make sure everything was in order to receive applications, we have been a few days delayed in sending out this announcement compared to last year. Thus, the deadline for applications has been extended one week to March 8th (one week later than last year). However, we anticipate no problem with sending out formal invitations by April 1. Please note: Each coauthor of a paper or poster must apply separately to attend. Coauthors who do not apply before the March 8th application deadline will not be considered for attendance. This is necessary so that the organizers have an accurate count of the number of participants at the meeting and can allocate resources efficiently. As many of you are aware the Society voted at the last Business Meeting at APSA to work toward increasing the size of the summer meeting as suggested in the report presented by the Long Range Planning Committee. Of course the expansion has costs; all participants will stay in hotels and eventually no meals will be provided. This summer will be a "transition" meeting, with some aspects of the new and old. Specifically, more faculty and graduate students will be invited to the conference than in past years, although participation is still limited by space constraints. While more graduate students will be invited to the conference, the number who will be able to present posters is constrained by space and time, so not all graduate students invited to attend will be invited to present posters. Graduate students whose posters are accepted for the conference will have their expenses (airfare, hotel, and conference registration) paid by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Graduate students who are invited but are not poster presenters will be expected to be funded by their home institutions. It is extremely helpful to the Society if faculty who have resources can fund poster presenters as well. To expand the presentation opportunities for faculty, the program committee is considering having some faculty present in shorter time slots and to present posters. Submissions of papers that are coauthored with graduate students or junior colleagues are also especially encouraged. When paper proposals are submitted, authors will have an opportunity to express preferences over the different presentation formats. However, these preferences cannot be guaranteed. Penn State has negotiated reduced hotel rates with two hotels which are within walking distance of the conference location on campus. All attendees will stay in hotels (including funded graduate students who will share rooms). Faculty will be responsible for making and paying for their own hotel reservations at the reduced rate. Lunches will be provided on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. There will be a conference dinner on Friday night and a conference reception on Saturday. Penn State will provide information on restaurant offerings in the area for the other times. The registration is $200 for each faculty member and $50 for each graduate student, which must be paid in advance of the conference to Jonathan Katz, Treasurer. Faculty are expected to obtain support from their home institutions to cover their conference expenses. Penn State University is located in State College, PA. The University abuts the downtown, offering an array of restaurants and entertainment very near the conference and hotels. Summer weather is generally mild and attendees interested in mountain biking or hiking should consider an extra day's visit. We thank our hosts Suzie De Boef and Burt Monroe, and sponsors at Penn State University and the National Science Foundation. Additional information can be found at the conference website, which will be continually updated between now and the conference, http://polmeth.psu.edu. Questions should be directed to Suzanna De Boef at sdeboef at psu.edu. We look forward to seeing you in Happy Valley this summer! Becky Morton Program Chair 2007 Summer Methods Meeting