IM Psychometric Society 2017

This is the official app of the Psychometric Society. This year’s meeting will be held at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Using the app, you’ll be able to browse the 2017 program schedule, build your own itinerary, read profiles on the speakers, and view the maps of the hotel. You can also read the talk and poster abstracts, view general event information and get timely updates through our Twitter feed.

For over eighty years, the Psychometric Society, an international organization, has worked to promote the development of psychology as a quantitative rational science, involving the formulation of hypotheses in mathematical form, their development into a consistent quantitative psychological theory, and quantitative tests of the agreement between theory and experimental data. The Society also publishes a journal, Psychometrika, and will celebrating its 81st year of publication in 2017.

The Psychometric Society Annual Meeting provides opportunities for members and nonmembers alike to attend paper and poster presentations by members of the Society. This year’s annual meeting will also feature a number of keynote and invited speakers.

The 2017 Keynote Speakers include: Donald Rubin, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, MA, USA; Peter Bühlmann, D-MATH, Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Ulf Böckenholt, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, IL, USA; Willem Heiser, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Mathematical Institute of the Faculty of Science, Leiden University, the Netherlands
 (2017 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime Achievement); Chun Wang, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, USA (2017 Psychometric Society 
Early Career Award); & Maria Bolsinova, Utrecht University, Utrecht and Cito, Arnhem, the Netherlands
 (2017 Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize). Invited speakers include: Marie Wiberg, Dept. of Statistics, Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University, Sweden; Ying (Alison) Cheng, Department of Psychology, Notre Dame, USA; Norman Verhelst, Eurometrics, The Netherlands; & Han van der Maas, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The State of the Art Speakers include: Dorret Boomsma, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Victoria Savalei, University of British Columbia, Canada; Tom Snijders, Groningen & Oxford, The Netherlands & UK; & John Lockwood, Principal Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service, USA The presidential address will be given by Anders Skrondal, Norwegian Institute of Public Health & University of Oslo, Norway and UC Berkeley, CA, USA.

To register for IMPS 2017 or to learn more about the Psychometric Society, visit www.psychometricsociety.org