/This note is forwarded from Arie Cohen to the e-mail list of the Classification Society and to the CLASS-L list-serve; please forgive duplication. Stan Sclove, Sec'y, the Classification Society / Dear Colleagues: You are invited to the Louis Guttman memorial session (the originator of Guttman scale, Facet Theory, Smallest Space Analysis and more, and Past president of Psychometric Society) to be held in Ritter Hall 211, Temple University, Philadelphia, between 13:00-18:00, August 7th , 2007. The keynote address speaker will be J. Douglas Carroll who will speak on "Multidimensional Scaling and its Extensions: Applications to Perceptual, Preferential Choice, and other Behavioral Science Data". Louis Guttman's family, friends, and participants will share memories and anecdotes. At the same session Dr. Joseph B. Kruskal, the originator of multidimensional scaling, will receive the FTA Louis Guttman Distinguished Lifetime Contribution Award. The memorial session is part of the Facet Theory Association (FTA) International Conference that will take place 7th - 9th, August, 2007. There is a registration fee for participating in the conference; however, attending the memorial session is free. Colleagues, who can attend, are encouraged to participate and pay tribute to the legacy of one of the leading psychometricians of our generation. For further information please see the association site at: http://www.facet-theory.org/content.php?id=29 or contact [log in to unmask] . Arie Cohen, Ph.D. Chair, Scientific Program Facet Theory Association ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l