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yet another conference scam

Posted in Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 12, 2024 by xi'an

Within a few days of the online appearance of the programme of the Workshop on Functional Inference and Machine Intelligence (FIMI) at the University of Bristol, which I am attending, I received the following email about accommodation, which did not sound right despite the focus on the right conference at the right time. After contacting the organisers, it proved to be a scam. A similar thing happened a few months ago with our workshop at CIRM, when one participant was asked to pay for an hotel room that happened to be 100km away… Again taking advantage of a published list of participants to the workshop. There as well the participant found the email suspicious and contacted us.

From: BOOKINGS GTE <bookings@g-travelexperts.com>
To: christian.robert@ceremade.dauphine.fr
Subject: Accommodation in Bristol, England - March 25-27, 
2024 - University of Bristol

Dear Christian,

For your upcoming conference visit to Bristol in March.

Kindly provide your arrival and departure dates for us 
to finalize your reservation. Once confirmed, we will 
email you an invoice and an itinerary including detailed 
information about your booking. Your booking is fully flexible 
for alterations, modifications, or complete cancellations 
up to 14 days before your scheduled check-in date.

Thanks,

Contact the Global Travel Experts Team via our Call Centres:
Our team is ready to assist.

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MCMSki IV, Jan. 6-8, 2014, Chamonix (news #7)

Posted in Mountains, R, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 27, 2013 by xi'an

More exciting (and important!) news about MCMSki IV:

First, some if not all of the 9 invited and the 16 contributed sessions are about now documented by abstracts. The program is completely set! If you plan to present a poster, remember to send me by email (a) surname, name (institution): title as the subject, (b) abstract and keywords (and possibly a link to a paper) as the body of the mail, at your earliest convenience.

Second, ISBA, SBSS and the BayesComp section of ISBA are putting $11,000 together to support travel for young researchers (who also get special rates at registration). lf you are a young researcher and looking for travel support, please apply at your earliest convenience on the ISBA via the ISBA form. (Details on that page.) Deadline for applications is September 30, mind!

Last, I just made my own reservation of a rental flat in Chamonix and noticed the offers are not so numerous any longer, so make sure to check soon if you do not want to go through the Conference Centre reservation system. And also if you do since the number of rooms is limited.

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