Greg Piepel, Industrial Speakers Program Chair
What does an applied statistician really do? How do they solve problems in science, engineering, technology, and business? What nontechnical skills are required to be successful as an applied statistician? The Marquardt Industrial Speakers Program was established by the Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) in the early 1990s to help answer such questions by coordinating visits by experienced statisticians to universities and colleges across the country. Speakers typically visit with students and faculty early in the day and give a seminar later. SPES reimburses the host institution up to $500 for the speaker’s visit.
If you are an institution interested in having a speaker, or a SPES member interested in being on the speakers list, contact Greg Piepel at greg.piepel@pnnl.gov or (509) 375-6911.
Fall Technical Conference
Zhen Wang, FTC Program Committee Chair
The 59th annual Fall Technical Conference will be held in Houston, Texas, October 8–9. The program includes sessions in design of experiments, reliability, statistical process control, modeling, and simulation. There will also be a SPES special session titled “Success and the Statistician.” The opening plenary session will be given by William Q. Meeker.
The following short courses will be offered October 7:
- Data Visualization by Jim Wisnowski, Adsurgo LLC
- Definitive Screening Designs: What, Why, and How by Bradley Jones, SAS Institute, and Christopher Nachtsheim, University of Minnesota
- Peering into the Future: Introduction to Time
- Series Methods for Forecasting by David A. Dickey, North Carolina State University
- Split-Plot Design and Analysis by Peter Goos, University of Antwerp and Erasmus University Rotterdam
Registration fees increase September 15. Also, the hotel rooms reserved at a special conference rate are limited. Reserve your room as soon as possible.
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