John Finamore, SRMS Publications Officer

JSM 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts, should be an exciting meeting for section members. The Survey Research Methods Section will sponsor four invited sessions. Here are their titles, session timeslots, and names of organizers:

Using Paradata Throughout the Survey Life Cycle for Public Sector Surveys, Sunday at 4:00 p.m., Carma Hogue (Census Bureau)

Applications of Calibration and Empirical Bayes Estimation Methods, Monday at 2:00 p.m., Carma Hogue (Census Bureau)

Use of Vendor Data in Optimization of Address-Based Sampling Procedures, Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., Stanislav Kolenikov (Abt SRBI)

Adaptive Survey Designs: Reflecting on the Past, Describing the Present, and Considering the Possibilities of the Future, Wednesday at 8:30 a.m., John Finamore (National Science Foundation)

For those considering an invited session for JSM 2015 in Seattle, Washington, begin planning now. The selection of invited sessions occurs in the early fall of the year prior to the JSM. The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2014 JSM was September 2013, and the deadline for the 2015 JSM will be equally early. The SRMS program chair for JSM 2015 will be Daniell Toth of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.