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Invited Session Proposals Sought for JSM 2020

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David Banks, JSM 2020 Program Chair

David Banks

Hi, folks! This is simple. It is time to start planning the 2020 Joint Statistical Meetings. To that end, the 2020 Program Committee is soliciting proposals for invited sessions. (And in a few months, we shall be soliciting proposals for topic-contributed sessions, and later on, asking for invited posters, contributed posters, and contributed talks.)

Invited Paper and Panel Sessions

The process for submitting a proposal is straightforward. For the standard invited session, there are usually three speakers and perhaps a discussant, and the session has unity of theme. For the standard panel, you will have perhaps five to seven speakers who collectively address some interesting topic. JSM usually has many more standard sessions than panel sessions.

Once you have chosen your participants, identify up to three sponsors. You will provide a ranked list of these sponsors when you submit your session proposal online. A sponsor can be an ASA section, an interest group, an affiliated society (e.g., IMS, ENAR, SSC, etc.) or perhaps a journal. It is probably smart to have a short conversation with the section program chair, interest group chair, program committee representative from the affiliated society, or the relevant journal editor to ensure your proposal aligns with the goals of those groups. You can find most of these people on the JSM Program Committee list (see below). The list will be on the 2020 JSM website when it goes live at the end of this month.

When you submit a proposal, you will need to provide a title, a few sentences describing the session, and a list of speakers with their affiliations and the titles of their talks. If your speakers can provide abstracts, that is even better. Titles and abstracts may be changed later, so these are not binding. But the more detail you can provide, the more serious your proposal appears.

The competition for invited session slots is intense. My advice is that a strong proposal has diverse speakers: gender balance is good, and so is having a mix of seniority (e.g., a new researcher or practitioner, a mid-career person, and someone who is clearly senior). Topicality is also important; a fresh session that addresses new ideas, applications, or theory is much more attractive than one rehashing settled science. And if your topic aligns with the ASA president’s theme, that carries weight. Wendy Martinez has chosen the theme “Everyone Counts: Data for the Public Good.”

Most invited sessions are sponsored by ASA sections. Each section gets at least one guaranteed invited session, which is selected by the section’s program chair. But proposals that are not chosen for the guaranteed slot then go into an open competition in which the JSM Program Committee decides which ones will be chosen for the limited number of invited sessions.

The open competition is very much a crapshoot. The Program Committee does not just weigh the merits of a proposal, but also seeks balance across fields, diversity, and crowd appeal.

Memorial Sessions

There are five open slots for memorial sessions at JSM 2020. One strategy to maximize your chance of obtaining an invited memorial session is to first submit your proposal as a regular invited session. You may pick “memorial session” as the sponsor. But also pick sections as sponsors. If one of the sections picks up your proposal as one of its guaranteed sessions, then you are done. If not, your proposal might still be selected in the open competition for invited sessions. If that fails, your proposal will automatically compete for one of the five designated invited memorial session slots.

Invited Poster Sessions

The Opening Mixer at JSM 2020 will have up to 30 invited electronic posters on display. Please send your idea (or the poster itself) to the JSM 2020 Poster Chair.

Introductory Overview Lectures

We want to have four Introductory Overview Lectures (IOLs). These should address hot and significant statistical topics that will interest a broad swath of JSM attendees. The one or two speakers in an IOL should be engaging and capable of communicating complexity clearly. Note that IOL speakers may violate the one-talk rule; they may also present in an invited, topic-contributed, or contributed session. Please email the program chair with suggestions for topics and speakers.

Dates and Details

Invited session proposals may be submitted through the JSM online system between July 17 and September 5 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Decisions about the invited program will be made by the end of September.

I have been going to JSM for 35 years. It is my favorite meeting, with some of my favorite people. I hope all of you will help me make 2020 the best JSM we have ever had.

JSM 2020 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    JSM 2020 Program Chair
    David Banks
    Duke University

    International Biometric Society (ENAR)
    Jeremy Gaskins
    University of Louisville

    International Biometric Society (WNAR)
    Dongseok Choi
    Oregon Health & Science University

    Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Invited)
    Harrison H. Zhou
    Yale University

    Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Contributed)
    Adityanand Guntuboyina
    University of California, Berkeley

    Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
    Ying Zhang
    Acadia University

    International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)
    Xuming He
    University of Michigan

    International Indian Statistical Association (IISA)
    Veera Baladandayuthapani
    University of Michigan

    Korean International Statistical Society (KISS)
    Dongjun Chung
    Medical University of South Carolina

    International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
    Babak Shahbaba
    University of California, Irvine

    Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
    TBD

    International Statistics Institute (ISI)
    TBD

    Casualty Actuarial Society
    Rick Gorvett
    Bryant University

    Leadership Support Council, ASA
    Jack Miller
    University of Michigan

    Associate Chair, ASA
    Julie Novak
    Netflix

    Associate Chair, ASA
    Michelle Dunn
    NSA

    Invited and Contributed Posters
    TBD

    Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, ASA
    Surya Tapas Tokdar
    Duke University

    Biometrics Section, ASA
    Samrachana Adhikari
    New York University

    Biopharmaceutical Section, ASA
    Stephine L. Keeton
    PPD, Inc.

    Business and Economic Statistics Section, ASA
    Mariana Saenz-Ayala
    Harder + Company Community Research

    Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, ASA
    Qiongshi Lu
    University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Government Statistics Section, ASA
    Michael Yang
    NORC

    Health Policy Statistics Section, ASA
    Lisa M. Lix

    Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics, ASA
    Tyson Rogers
    NAMSA

    Mental Health Statistics Section, ASA
    Knashawn Morales
    University of Pennsylvania

    Section on Nonparametric Statistics, ASA
    Yanyuan Ma
    The Pennsylvania State University

    Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences, ASA
    Mary Frances Dorn
    Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Quality and Productivity Section, ASA
    Terri Henderson
    Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

    Section on Risk Analysis, ASA
    Qian Li
    FDA

    Social Statistics Section, ASA
    Antje Kirchner

    Section on Statistical Computing, ASA
    Matthias Schonlau
    University of Waterloo

    Section on Statistical Consulting, ASA
    Summer Han
    Stanford University

    Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, ASA
    Amelia McNamara
    University of St. Thomas

    Section on Statistical Graphics, ASA
    Shailaja Suryawanshi
    Merck & Co., Inc.

    Section on Statistics in Imaging, ASA
    Linglong Kong
    University of Alberta

    Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, ASA
    Adam Rothman
    University of Minnesota

    Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts, ASA
    Navneet Hakhu
    Axio Research

    Section on Statistics and the Environment, ASA
    Ephraim Hanks
    The Pennsylvania State University

    Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security, ASA
    Karl Pazdernik
    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, ASA
    Alisa Stephens-Shields
    University of Pennsylvania

    Section on Statistics in Marketing, ASA
    Daniel McCarthy
    Emory University

    Section on Statistics in Sports, ASA
    Sarah Morris
    Datalys Center

    Survey Research Methods Section, ASA
    Yang Cheng
    US Census Bureau

    Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
    Maria Ciarleglio
    Yale University

    Lifetime Data Science Section, ASA
    Zhezhen Jin
    Columbia University

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