Eligible applicants compete to be one of three speakers at an invited session as part of the IMS annual meeting. The award includes reimbursement of travel expenses and the meeting registration fee.
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JSM 2021: The Stories We Will Tell …
While disappointed by not being able to hold an in-person JSM in Seattle, program chair Nicole Lazar was heartened by how attendees managed to recreate some of that same energy in a virtual setting.
Invited Session Proposals Sought for JSM 2022
JSM 2022 will be in Washington, DC, August 6-11. Invited proposal submissions are due by September 8, 2021.
Obituary: S. James (Jim) Press
ASA member S. James (Jim) Press passed away in November 2020.
A Statistical Star from the East Shines in the West
Bimal Sinha of the University of Maryland Baltimore County was recently honored with an endowed chair of statistics named after him.
Apply for the 2020-2021 Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
This fellowship focuses on data science and related expertise such as machine learning, data visualization, and causal inference to meet legislative and policymaking challenges.
Hal Stern Appointed UCI Vice Provost for Academic Planning
Hal S. Stern, longtime member of the ASA, has been appointed vice provost for academic planning at the University of California, Irvine.
Science and Technology Policy Fellows Ready to Effect Change
William Adler, Kyle Novak, and Jiayang Sun were selected as fellows for the inaugural ASA/ACM/AMS/IMS/MAA/SIAM 2019-2020 Science and Technology Policy Fellowship and will begin their appointments this month.
Sloan Foundation Funding to Enhance Data Science Expertise in Federal Government
With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the ASA and its sister societies will sponsor three AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows in the federal government in each of the next two years.
Susan A. Murphy
Susan Murphy always loved mathematics and made it a career when she realized statistics could use mathematics to improve our society. In 2013 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her work on experimental designs to inform sequential decision making.