useR! 2018 will run Tuesday Jul 10 through Friday Jul 13, 2018. There will be half-day tutorials Tuesday morning and afternoon, and Wednesday morning. Lunch, morning and afternoon teas are provided both days. The conference programme will begin after lunch on Wednesday, reception in the evening, and conference dinner Thursday evening. It will close late afternoon on Friday.
Tentative conference programme. Paralle sessions, based on abstract keywords, will be grouped (roughly) into these themes: applications, models, algorithms, visualisation, community/education, bioinformatics.
| Time | Session | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday | |||
| 1:25 | Opening | ||
| 1:35 | Keynote: Steph de Silva | Beyond syntax, towards culture: the potentiality of deep open source communities | |
| 2:30 | Poster lightning talks | 30sec speed poster advertising | |
| 3:15 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 3:45 | Talks | Parallel sessions (6) | |
| 5:15 | Break | ||
| 5:30 | Opening reception | Poster session 1 | |
| Thursday | |||
| 8:45 | Gather and mingle | ||
| 9:05 | Keynote: Heike Hofmann | TBD | |
| 10:00 | Morning tea | ||
| 10:30 | Talks | Parallel sessions (6) | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | Poster session 2 | |
| 1:00 | Keynote: Bill Venables | Adventures with R: Two stories of analyses and a new perspective on data | |
| 1:55 | Break | ||
| 2:00 | Talks and lightning talks | Parallel sessions (6) | |
| 3:15 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 3:45 | Talks | Parallel sessions (6) | |
| 5:15 | Break | ||
| 6:00 | Conference dinner | John Mertic: How The Linux Foundation is enabling sustainable open source today | |
| Friday | |||
| 8:45 | Gather and mingle | ||
| 9:05 | Keynote: Roger Peng | Teaching R to New Users: From tapply to Tidyverse | |
| 10:00 | Morning tea | ||
| 10:30 | Talks | Parallel sessions (6) | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 | Keynote: Thomas Lin Pedersen | The Grammar of Animation | |
| 1:55 | Break | ||
| 2:00 | Talks and lightning talks | Parallel sessions (6) | |
| 3:15 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 3:45 | Keynote: Jenny Bryan | TBD | |
| 4:40 | Closing | ||