Award deadlines and information from the November 2010 issue of Amstat News.
Chapter News
Adaptive Design Focus of Chapter Spring Meeting
The Princeton Trenton Chapter held its annual spring meeting on June 11; adaptive design was the topic.
Snake River
The Snake River Chapter’s annual business meeting, held on June 4 in Boise, Idaho, featured an invited talk by Robert Lund, an ASA Fellow and professor in the department of mathematical sciences at Clemson University.
AP Statistics Project Competition Breaks Record
The Southern California Chapter held its fifth annual project competition for high-school AP Statistics students on May 15 at City of Hope National Medical Center. A new record of 73 teams (from seven schools) participated.
San Antonio Chapter Hosts Career Day
More than 100 high-school students from various local high schools attended the San Antonio Chapter’s Career Day in Statistics event that took place on April 17.
Southern California
The Southern California Chapter of the ASA presented its 29th annual Workshop in Applied Statistics on April 30 at the RAND Corporation, in Santa Monica. Carter Butts, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, spoke on social networks.
San Antonio Chapter Welcomes ASA President Sastry Pantula
Sastry Pantula, ASA president, visited the San Antonio Chapter on March 29 and gave a seminar titled “GIVE to ASA.” He also discussed his focus areas within the strategic plan—Growth, Impact, Visibility, and Education—and presented the excellent progress the four working groups for those focus areas have made so far.
Mid-Michigan Chapter
The Mid Michigan Chapter held its semi-annual meeting/presentation on April 12, 2010, on the campus of Michigan State University. The guest speaker was Malay Ghosh.
Chapter to Sponsor Invited Sessions on Climate Change
The Council of Chapters is sponsoring two invited sessions at the 2010 JSM featuring diverse scientific applications of statistics. One session highlights statistical opportunities in large-scale international science endeavors. The other showcases the work of several Vancouver statisticians exploring the impact of climate change on British Columbia’s forests.
Southern California Hosts Fall Kickoff
The Southern California Chapter held its annual fall kickoff November 7 at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics of the University of California, Los Angeles.