The American Statistical Association’s Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) is seeking nominations for the 2012 Statistics in Chemistry Award. Past award winners have addressed a wide range of topics, including calibration methods, recursive partitioning, and forensics.
If you know of an interesting collaboration between statisticians and chemists, please take the time to write a brief nomination letter―a paragraph or two about the work is sufficient―and send it to Statistics in Chemistry Award committee chair, Rick Lewis, at richard.a.lewis@gsk.com, along with a copy of the nominee’s paper.
The Award
The Statistics in Chemistry Award was established in 1990 to recognize outstanding collaborative endeavors between statisticians and chemists. The award is sponsored by SPES and is presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in August.
Each winner receives an engraved award and shares a cash prize. The current cash prize is $2,000. SPES solicits funding for the award from key industrial and manufacturing companies. Funding for the 2011 award was provided by DuPont.
Qualifications
The Statistics in Chemistry Award is based on the innovative use of statistics to solve a problem in chemistry and the effect of the solution on the problem. In odd-numbered years, the award is presented for a paper published in refereed statistics, chemistry, or chemometrics journals during the previous two years. In even-numbered years, the work does not need to have been published, but must be well documented. A statistician, to be eligible for the award, must be a member of the American Statistical Association.
Nomination Deadline and Award Presentation
Nominations for the 2012 award are due by March 9, 2012. The award will be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in August.
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