The theme for the 2013 United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) is “Making Change Happen.” The conference will be held from May 16–18 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. Plenary speakers and their titles include the following:
- Xiao-Li Meng of Harvard University, “Energizing Higher Education for Statistics and Beyond: T=(IE)2”
- Chris Wild of the University of Auckland, “The Need for Speed in the Path of the Deluge”
- Hollylynne Stohl Lee of North Carolina State University, “Envisioning a Future Teacher of Statistics in K–12 Classrooms”
- Nicholas Horton of Smith College and Danny Kaplan of Macalester University, “All Statistics Are Wrong, but Some Statistics Are Useful”
Proposals for “posters and beyond” contributions are still being accepted. Awards, including the USCOTS Lifetime Achievement Award, will be presented at a banquet on the SAS campus on May 17. Musical and statistical entertainment will be provided at the banquet by Larry Lesser and The Fifth Moment.
Don’t forget about the A-μ-Sing! Competition for jokes/cartoons, poetry, songs, and videos (entries are due by March 1).
Upcoming Competitions
We hope you will encourage your students to participate in the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition (USPROC). The purpose of USPROC is to encourage the development of data analysis skills, enhance presentation skills, and recognize outstanding work by undergraduate statistics students. Prizes in the 2013 competition will be awarded in two divisions: long-term undergraduate research projects (e.g., as part of an REU, senior capstone research project, etc.) and undergraduate projects completed as part of work in a statistics course. The submission deadline is May 15.
Stay tuned for pre-conference workshop information as USCOTS 2013 approaches.
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