Devon Lin is a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at Queen’s University. She is also the chair of the ASA’s Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences.
Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute
Registration Open for Joint Research Conference
The conference will be held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, June 17–20 at the University of Waterloo.
Florence Nightingale Day Encourages Students to Pursue Statistics, Data Science
The fifth annual celebration of Florence Nightingale Day spanned six months and was started in 2018 to promote future career opportunities.
Nancy Reid to Deliver 2022 COPSS Distinguished Lecture
Nancy Reid, a professor in the department of statistical sciences at the University of Toronto who has contributed fundamental and path-breaking work in a wide range of statistical problems, will give her lecture at the 2022 Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, DC. Her talk is titled “Likelihood and Its Discontents.”
Iowa State Student Wins Jackson Smith Scholarship
Sepideh Mosaferi, a PhD student in the department of statistics at Iowa State University, is the winner of the Government Statistics Section’s 2020 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship.
Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute Builds Worldwide Collaborations
The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) is now in its third year of funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. The scientific flagship program continues to be the suite of collaborative research team (CRT) projects, designed to build sustainable collaborations between statisticians and scientists.