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Entitled 'Frontiers and Challenges in the Study of Human Longevity', the Second HMD Symposium is to be held at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, on June 13-14, 2008. The meeting, which will gather 35 participants coming from eight different countries, aims at promoting research and encouraging collaboration amongst researchers who produce and analyze mortality data for national populations, including those from the Human Mortality Database (HMD; www.mortality.org), and other sources.

This page will be updated as specific information on the 2008 conference becomes available.

Downloadable Forms and Travel Information:

• Program and Abstracts/Papers (password protected)
  
  
• Participant List (.pdf format)
  
  
• Travel Reimbursement Request Form (For participants traveling from Europe or Australia only)
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• Travel Reimbursement Request Form (For participants traveling from the USA or Canada only)
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  • Certificate of Foreign Status for Federal Tax Witholding (UC W-8BEN) (For non-citizens traveling from the US only) (.pdf format)
    
  • Certificate of Academic Activity (For non-citizens) (.pdf format)
  
  
• Shuttle Schedules, Pick-Up, Drop-Off and Contact Information (.pdf format)
  
  
• Directions from Berlin and Hamburg Airports to Train Station for Rostock (.pdf format)
  
  
• Train Schedules for Hamburg Hbf<->Rostock Hbf & Berlin<->Rostock Hbf (.pdf format).  For more details, please visit www.bahn.de
  
  
• Directions to Hotel Sonne (.pdf format) & Sonne Hotel web
  
  
• Directions from Hotel Sonne to MPI (.pdf format)
  
  

Objective: To promote research and encourage collaboration amongst researchers using data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) or similar sources

Dates: June 13-14, 2008

Location: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany

Sponsors: MPIDR and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) at the University of California, Berkeley

Organizers: John Wilmoth and Vladimir Shkolnikov

Scientific Coordinator: Magali Barbieri

Format: Nine sessions (1.5 to 2 hours each) over 2 days for a total of 23 papers and presentations

Topics: The HMD has been used by numerous researchers to examine a wide variety of topics. To some degree, this Symposium is intended to reflect this diversity. The program also features certain topics that are viewed as presenting special challenges for mortality researchers at the present time: these include better means of utilizing cause-of-death data and methods for assessing the uncertainty of mortality estimates (in particular, for developing countries). A project to use experience from the HMD to create a Human Fertility Database will be presented and discussed in the closing session.

Contacts:
- Christine Roepke (with copy to Edelgard Katke ) for questions relative to your stay in Rostock or ground transport information in Germany or travel to Rostock from Europe or Australia
- Magali Barbieri (with copy to Lisa Yang) for questions or comments relative to the scientific program of the symposium, this web site or travel to Rostock from North America