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On 27 September 2012, in Barcelona, the seminar, “Treatment of Attrition in Panel Designs and Other Panel Issues” took place. Different aspects of the design and implementation of panel surveys were discussed by three experts in the field: Peter Lynn (University of Essex), Annette Scherpenzeel (Tilburg University) and William van der Veld (Radboud University Nijmegen). For complete information on the seminar, including the three presentation abstracts, visit http://www.upf.edu/survey/activities/seminars.html.
Le 27 septembre 2012, à Paris, la première journée d'études, « Réseaux sociaux, réseaux spatiaux, réseaux complexes - Eléments pour un dialogue », du groupe FMR (Flux, Matrices, Réseaux) a été organisée. Les textes produits par les intervenant-e-s doivent être édités à l'hiver 2012 dans la collection HAL-SHS du groupe FMR à http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/FMR/.
Les 1-2 octobre 2012, à Besançon, s’est tenu le troisième colloque international « Sciences Humaines et Cancérologie » Le site Web du colloque està http://cancero2012.univ-fcomte.fr/.
On 6-7 October 2012, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, the “Research Methods and Techniques in Economic and Social Sciences” conference took place. Additional information is at http://rmtess.fisn.uni-plovdiv.bg/.
Du 17 au 19 octobre 2012, à Villetaneuse, la troisième conférence sur les Modèles et l'Analyse des Réseaux - Approches Mathématiques et Informatique (MARAMI 2012) a eu lieu ; voir http://lipn.fr/marami12.
On 22-23 October 2012, in Fontainebleau, the INSEAD Conference on Network Evolution, “New Directions for Organizational Networks Research”, took place. Further information is at http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch /faculty/personal/ashipilov/network12.cfm.
On 27-28 October 2012, in Sendai, Japan, the Symposium on Asian Perspectives on Social Stratification and Inequality took place. Further information available from Yoshimichi Sate at ysato@sal.tohoku.ac.jp.
On 31 October-3 November 2012, in New Orleans, the International Conference on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating Hard-to-Reach Populations (H2R) took place. More information at http://www.amstat.org/meetings/h2r/2012 or H2R2012@amstat.org.
On 1-4 November 2012, in Venice, the XI Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), “Discovering New Frontiers in Quality-of-Life Research”, took place. More information available at http://www.aiquav.it/isqols2012/. Venice was for sure the best place to discover new insights in QoL research and practice.
Du 5 au 7 novembre 2012, in Rennes, France, le 7e Colloque Francophones sur les Sondages, organisé par la Société Française de Statistique (SFdS) et l’Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Analyse de l’Information (Ensai), a eu lieu (sondages2012@ensai.fr).
On 8-9 November 2012, in Trento, Italy, the international workshop “Net 2012 - Network Models in Statistics, Economics and Social Sciences” took place (http://events.unitn.it/en/net2012).
On 9-10 November 2012, in Maribor, Slovenia, the Research Network 21 “Quantitative Methodology” of the European Sociological Association, organized its Midterm Conference, “Quantitative Methods in European Sociology”. Further information available at http://adp.fdv.uni-lj.si/konference-in-dogodki/ESA_RN21_Midterm_ConferenceQMES/.
Du 12 au 16 novembre 2012, à Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso, le XVIIe Colloque international de l’AIDELF, « Démographie et politique sociales » a eu lieu (aidelf-colloque2012@ined.fr).
On 23-25 November 2012, in Nicosia, Cyprus, the European Social Survey International Conference, “Cross-National Evidence from European Social Survey” took place (http://www.ess-conference.com).
On 25-29 November 2012, in Naples, the workshop, “Complex Networks and their Applications”, took place (http://www.sitis-conf.org/en/workshop-on-complex-networks-and-their-applications-complex-networks-2012.php?Preview=ok).
