Bryan Smucker, Michael Crotty, and Elizabeth Schiferl

The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) will sponsor two short courses at JSM in August: Modern Design of Factorial Experiments, taught by Peter Goos and Bradley Jones, and The Design and Analysis of Experiments That Use Computer Simulators, taught by Thomas Santner and Brian Williams. Goos and Jones’ course is based on Optimal Experimental Design: A Case-Study Approach, and Santner and Williams’ course is based on The Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments.

In conjunction with the Fall Technical Conference (FTC), SPES will sponsor a short course by Heath Rushing called Text Mining and Unstructured Data Analysis Methods. Other FTC short courses include Definitive Screening Designs by Bradley Jones and Christopher Nachtsheim, Effective Presentations for Statisticians by Jennifer van Mullekom and Stephanie DeHart, and a course on reliability by William Meeker.

Volunteers Needed

As SPES members, many of you are aware that the section gives awards every year for the best JSM contributed presentations based on audience evaluation. The awards recognize the best presentations in SPES-sponsored contributed and topic-contributed paper sessions. To be successful, the awards program requires the efforts of many volunteers every year. If you would like to volunteer to help with the data collection for this year’s presentation awards, contact Michael Crotty at michael.crotty@sas.com or (919) 531-0669. Being a member of the SPES Awards Committee gives you the opportunity to serve your community and meet your colleagues.

Volunteer responsibilities include distributing evaluation forms to the audience in each session you agree to cover and evaluating the speakers in your sessions. Detailed session information can be found on the online program.

SPES/Q&P Mixer at JSM

Making plans to attend JSM in Boston? Due to the ASA 175th Anniversary Celebration on Tuesday evening of the conference, the SPES/Q&P mixer will be on Monday night and the SPES business meeting will be Sunday evening. Exact times and locations will be in the JSM program.