President’s Message – May 2020: Opportunities for our Future
In his May message, ISI President A. John Bailer talks about the ISI’s launch of the International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the landscape of professional meetings in 2020 and the opportunities for the ISI WSC 2021. More »
Published 14 May 2020
Director’s Message – May 2020: The New Now
Read Ada van Krimpen’s message dedicated to the ‘new now’, the recent online events organised by the ISI and the future of the ISI WSC 2021. More »
Published 15 May 2020
International Prize in Statistics - Call for Nominations
Nominations are open for the third edition of the International Prize in Statistics, to be presented at the ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 in The Hague. The closing date for nominations is 15 August 2020. More »
Published 17 April 2020
Launch of ISI celebrations of the International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science & the Official Welcome for the ISI WSC 2021 in The Hague
- On 12 May, Florence Nightingale’s 200th birth anniversary, ISI launched the celebrations of the International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science, the ISI’s 135th anniversary on 24 June, and the official welcome for the 63rd ISI WSC in The Hague in July 2021.
- Watch various talks about Florence Nightingale, the ISI and find out more about the 63rd ISI WSC 2021.
Published 15 May 2020
ISI Turns 135 Years on 24 June 2020
1885 – 1887: From the Creation of the ISI to its 1st Session in Rome. More »
Published 8 May 2020
COVID-19 Resources
ISI has assembled some current resources for statisticians interested in the COVID-19 pandemic, including links to data sources, talks and preprints. More »
Published 15 May 2020
ISI Young Statisticians Committee
Read the Committee’s report on the webinar “COVID-19: from a statistical point of view”. More »
Published 15 May 2020
Former ISI Director Marcel van den Broecke passed away
Marcel van den Broecke passed away on 8 March 2020. He served as director of the ISI from 1997-2003 as successor of Zoltan Kenessey. More »
Published 15 May 2020
Member News
ISI Elected Member Charmaine Dean has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Published 15 May 2020
Stats+Stories
- The Lady with the Lamp | Stats + Stories Episode 139 with Lynn McDonald, professor emerita at the University of Guelph
- The Decade of Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 138 with Steve Pierson, director of science policy for the American Statistical Association
- Birds of Probability | Stats + Stories Episode 137 with Amalia Bastos, a biologist and photographer who is currently a Ph.D candidate at The University of Auckland
- Observing Extreme Environmental Events | Stats + Stories Episode 136 with Dan Cooley, Professor or Statistics at Colorado State University and Dr. Michael F. Wehner, senior staff scientist in the Computational Research Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Published 18 May 2020
BS News May 2020
- Winner of Wolfgang Doeblin Prize 2020
- 42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA)
- Online International Conference on Actuarial Science, Data Science and Finance (OICA)
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Published 15 May 2020
IAOS News May 2020
- Announcement of results of the 2020 IAOS Young Statisticians Prize
- Official Statistics in the context of the Covid-19 crisis
- SJIAOS March 2020 issue
- IAOS President Newsletter
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Published 15 May 2020
IASC News May 2020
- LACSC 2021 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing
- 3rd LARS-IASC School on Computational Statistics and Data Science
- Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation Conference (DSSV 2020)
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Published 15 May 2020
IASS News May 2020
In this newsletter we provide an update on IASS’s representation on committees, ISI celebrations, WSC 2021 short courses, COVID19 Surveillance Surveys, the conference in honour of Chris Skinner and Fred Smith, and upcoming conferences. More »
Published 15 May 2020
TIES News May 2020
- Announcing the 2020 recipient of the Abdel El-Shaarawi Early Investigator Award
- TIES2020 conference cancelled
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Published 15 May 2020
ISLP News May 2020
The International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP) is happy to announce the start of the International Poster Competition and the Best Cooperative Award competition. The Poster Competition invites school and university students from around the world to design a statistical poster. The Best Cooperative Award is awarded to collaborative projects by institutions that would not usually work closely together. For more information please visit the ISLP homepage
Published 14 May 2020
Esri Announces Online Analytics Platform for Caribbean Community
After the release of the Africa GeoPortal, as part of the program to support developing regions around the world, Esri has launched the Caribbean GeoPortal, a comprehensive cloud-based platform providing rich content and solutions from Esri and its partners. More »
Published 14 May 2020