COPSS selected Robert Tibshirani for the 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship, which recognizes researchers who have made exceptional contributions to statistical methods with significant impact on scientific investigations.
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Data Visualization Poster & Statistics Project Competition Winners
First-place winners received $300, a certificate, and grade-appropriate graphing calculators provided by Texas Instruments. Second-place winners received $200 and a certificate, third-place winners received $100 and a certificate, and honorable mentions received certificates.
Rethinking Faculty Research Evaluation
Bertrand Clarke, Murali Haran, Galin Jones, and Steven MacEachern look at academia and the increasing emphasis on publishing many papers.
SDSS 2024: Forging Connections and Bridging the Gap
More than 300 attendees in Richmond, Virginia, took short courses; gave and attended paper, poster, and panel sessions; mingled and made new friends between sessions; and immersed themselves in the city’s historic neighborhoods.
Nashville Is Calling: Time to Submit JSM 2025 Invited Proposals
With the theme “Statistics, Data Science, and AI Enriching Society” in mind, JSM 2025 program committee members invite proposals for invited sessions.
WSDS Provides Student Travel Awards
Awards are available to help students and early-career professionals pay for the Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference.
Reflections on CSP 2024 in New Orleans
Nearly 400 statistical practitioners and data scientists convened in New Orleans February 27–29 to attend the 2024 Conference on Statistical Practice.
Diversity Workshop and Mentoring Program to Take Place at JSM 2024
This program brings together historically underrepresented minority statisticians and data scientists at early to mid-career levels with senior-level statisticians and data scientists from academia, government, and the private sector.
Counting Down to JSM 2024
With the theme “Statistics and Data Science: Informing Policy and Countering Misinformation,” this conference anticipates more than 5,000 attendees and 600 sessions. Learn about the featured speakers and events.
Registration Open for Summer Research Conference
The Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference will feature keynote speaker Bhramar Mukherjee and include three days of talks and a graduate student poster session.