A special feature of the Joint Statistical Meetings is the ASA awards presentation. Here are some of this year’s awardees.
Meetings
2020 SPAIG Award Honors Research Collaboration
This year’s SPAIG Award honors the collaboration between Procter & Gamble (P&G) and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT). Here, William Brenneman from P&G and Roshan Joseph from GT answer a few questions about their collaboration.
JSM 2021 Program Committee Members
Check out the members of the JSM 2021 Program Committee.
Invited Session Proposals Sought for JSM 2021
Planning for JSM 2021 is underway, which means it’s time to submit your invited session proposal. The theme is “Statistics, Data, and the Stories They Tell,” emphasizing the importance of understanding the world around us. Proposals relating to the theme are especially welcome.
WSDS 2020 Student and Early-Career Scholarships Available
The Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference offers scholarships to support participation and offset the cost of conference registration.
SDSS 2020: Different, but (Mostly) Good
The 2020 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics took place from June 3–5, and the virtual conference ran incredibly smoothly.
Frontier of Science, Agriculture and Food System (AFS): Global and Big Data Impact! One World Under COVID-19
You are invited to join us in a special JSM panel, showcasing the inaugural ASA/IMS/AMA/MAA/ACM/SIAM Science and Technology Policy Fellowship.
The Pandemic JSM
As Futurama’s Professor Hubert Farnsworth says in his catchphrase announcement of potential disaster, “Good news, everyone! The JSM is going virtual.” But JSM Program Chair David Banks thinks we can make it work.
JSM Is Now Virtual
Given we know so little about what the COVID-19 pandemic will look like in August, the ASA has determined the best option is to hold JSM virtually.
13th ICHPS Sold Out in San Diego
The flagship conference of the Health Policy Statistics Section, ICHPS was host to a sold-out crowd of more than 350 in January.