More than 300 people attended the 10th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-X), held at the American University in Cairo (AUC) in New Cairo, Egypt. The conference was dedicated to the late Mir Maswood Ali, a statistician from Bangladesh and founder of the department of statistical and actuarial sciences at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
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NSF, CBMS Announce Conference Series
The National Science Foundation will hold six conferences jointly with the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences in the spring and summer of 2010. Proposals for these conferences, which aim to stimulate interest and activity in mathematical research, will be accepted until April 23.
ASA to Pursue Plans for Conference on Statistical Practice
In January, ASA President Sally Morton shared information about three initiatives undertaken this year to address issues raised in the ASA Strategic Plan and promised to provide updates to members over the course of the year. Here, Nat Schenker and Maura Stokes describe the third initiative.