The Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference was created to fulfill the need for a small gathering of statisticians and biostatisticians in the US’s southern region. The 60th conference will take place in June 2025 at Villas by the Sea resort on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
Highlights of the August 4–5, 2023, ASA Board of Directors Meeting
On Friday, August 4, ASA President Dionne Price gaveled to order the second 2023 meeting of the ASA Board of Directors. Board members met in the Delta Hotel in Toronto for two days immediately prior to JSM.
Building a Stronger Community at JSM 2023
The 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings—held in Toronto, Ontario, August 5–10—attracted more than 6,000 participants from academia, industry, and government and served as a platform for intellectual exchange, business discussion, friendship building, and networking.
2024 Waksberg Award Recipient Announced; Nominations Sought for 2025
In 2001, the journal Survey Methodology established an annual invited paper series in honor of Joseph Waksberg to recognize his contributions to survey statistics and methodology. Each year, a prominent survey statistician is chosen to write a paper that reviews the development and current state of an important topic in survey statistics and methodology and reflects the mixture of theory and practice that characterized Waksberg’s work.
ASA Honors Founders, Inducts 47 Fellows
A special feature of the Joint Statistical Meetings is the ASA President’s Address and Awards, during which the Founders Award winners are announced and the new ASA Fellows are inducted.
Getting to Know the ASA’s Government Employment Sector
Serving as a representative of government statisticians is an important part of Dionne Price’s role on the ASA Board. In this column, she focuses on this and shares highlights of a conversation with Claire Bowen, who is the current chair of the Government Statistics Section; Simone Gray, who is the past chair; and Bob Sivinski, who is chair-elect.
Obituaries for October 2023
Sadly, Greg Campbell, Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, and Robert Daniel Small passed away recently.
JSM Panel Urges Statistical Community to Propose Research Institutes
2022 ASA President Katherine Ensor led a JSM late-breaking session urging the statistical and data science communities to propose mathematical sciences research institutes (MSRIs) in response to the National Science Foundation’s current quinquennial call from its Division of Mathematical Sciences.
Conference on Advances in Multiple Testing Honors Sarkar
The department of statistics, operations, and data science at Temple University hosted the Conference on Advances in Multiple Testing June 1 in honor of Sanat K. Sarkar for his 70th birthday and 40 years of service.
Two Take Home First Place in Statistical Significance Competition
The ASA Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee has sponsored the annual Statistical Significance competition since 2009. This year, there were 32 participants who submitted a one-page piece explaining how their research connects to society.