News

January

• 18 January

  ISBIS 2021 Satellite Meeting

  The ISBIS 2021 satellite meeting will be held virtually on 7 May 2021, from 2.00-5.00 pm CET.

• 18 January

  Leading Women in Business and Industrial Statistics Webinar Series

  The third part of the webinar series titled “A statistician reads the news: Statistics and data science challenges in content analytics” will be held on 19 February 2021.

• 18 January

  International Statistical Review Special Issue

  The December 2020 issue of ISR (Volume 88, Issue S1) is a special issue featuring International Prize in Statistics Winner Brad Efron.

• 17 January

  Submission deadline for LACSC 2021 extended until 10 February 2021

  The 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing LACSC 2021 will be held fully online from 19 to 21 April 2021.

• 17 January

  New ISI Elected Members from IASC

  The IASC-ISI Nomination Committee congratulates four new ISI elected members from IASC

• 15 January

  New ASMBI Special issue

  ASMBI (Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry), the official ISBIS journal, recently published a special issue devoted to selected papers from the 36th ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference QPRC-2019.

• 15 January

  Successful First IASC-LARS Webinar on Computational Statistics and Data Science

  The Latin American Regional Section of the IASC held its first successful Webinar on Statistical Inference in Markov Processes. The course was attended by 71 students from 24 countries.

• 15 January

  IASC - LARS Webinar on Geostatistical Functional Data Analysis

  The Latin American Regional Section of the IASC invites postgraduate and undergraduate students to attend the Webinar Course “Geostatistical Functional Data Analysis” on 23-25 February 2021. The deadline for applications is 10 February.

• 14 January

  In Memoriam: Seppo S. Laaksonen

  Seppo S. Laaksonen, ISI Elected member and Professor Emeritus of Social Statistics in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, passed away on 20 December 2020.

• 14 January

  Submission for the Young Statisticians Prize 2021 closing soon

  This international prize, designed to encourage more young statisticians to take an active interest in official statistics, is awarded for the best paper in the field of official statistics written by a young statistician. Submissions are due by 12 February 2020.

• 14 January

  IASS Cochran-Hansen Award: Call for submissions

  IASS invites submission of papers for the 2021 edition of the Cochran-Hansen award for young statisticians from developing countries. The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2021.

• 14 January

  SJIAOS: December 2020 Issue and Call for Papers

  The themes of the December issue of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS are COVID-19 and Progress in the UN ESCAP (Asia Pacific) member countries in producing and disseminating official statistics. The journal welcomes papers on important topics relevant to official statistics.

• 14 January

  Additional Prizes for IASC Data Analysis Competition 2021

  In addition to travel awards and IASC membership award for the winners, additional book prizes will be offered by Springer.

• 14 January

  Submission deadlines for 3rd IASC-LARS School extended until 10 February 2021

  The Third IASC-LARS School on Computational Statistics and Data Science will be held fully online from 17-18 April 2021.

• 13 January

  y-BIS Data Science in Industry Webinar

  y-BIS, the young members wing of ISBIS, is pleased to announce a webinar session targeted at PhD students and young statisticians to be held on 28 January 2021.  

• 13 January

  Stat – ISI’s Journal for the Rapid Dissemination of Statistics Research

  Read the latest news on the journal Stat, including updates on special issues and the new free format for submissions.

• 11 January

  Mathematics Education for the Future Conference - Deadline Extension

  The 16th International Conference of the Mathematics Education for the Future project, titled "Building on the past to prepare for the future", is planned as an in-person meeting at King's College of Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

• 11 January

  USCOTS 2021 - Virtual Conference

  The U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) will be held virtually from 28 June to 1 July 2021 under the theme “Expanding Opportunities."

• 10 January

  Bernoulli Society: Nominations for the Latin American Regional Committee

  The Latin American Regional Committee (LARC) of the Bernoulli Society has nominated new candidates for the renewal of the Committee.

• 10 January

  Nominations for David G. Kendall Award closing soon

  There is still time to nominate for the inaugural David G. Kendall Award, the deadline is 31 January 2021. This new prize for an excellent young researcher will be awarded every two years.