The National Science Foundation announced Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS), which “aims to bring together the statistics, mathematics, and theoretical computer science communities to develop the theoretical foundations of data science through integrated research and training activities.”
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Workshop Focuses on Reproducibility
The Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shares insights from their February 2015 workshop on reproducibility issues from a statistical perspective.
SAMSI Poised to Help Hone Gravitational Wave Astronomy
On September 14, 2015, the waves from a distant merger of two black holes met the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory and produced a signal, the culmination of more than four decades of effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation and international sources.
ASA Receives Grant to Establish Series of REUs
A National Science Foundation grant will enable the ASA to establish a series of undergraduate research experiences on campuses throughout the United States with the goal of invigorating the undergraduate research community in statistics.
FY17 Requests for NIH, NSF, Federal Statistical Agencies Largely Positive
President Barack Obama’s requested budget for Fiscal Year 2017 maintains his record of proposing generally healthy increases for the NIH, NSF, and many federal statistical agencies, but realizing increases of any amount will be challenging.
Two NSF-CBMS Conferences Planned for 2016
The National Science Foundation and Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences will support two regional research conferences in 2016 intended to stimulate interest and activity in mathematical research.
Jordan Urges Both Computational, Inferential Thinking in Data Science
As part of the NSF Data Science Seminar Series, Michael I. Jordan—chair of the University of California, Berkeley Department of Statistics—made his case for why one should think of data science as the combination of computational and inferential thinking.
NSF Funding for Statisticians by Directorate
ASA Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson examines the implications of NSF’s funding for statisticians and shares tips for applying for funding outside the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences.
ASA Leaders Reminisce: Sastry Pantula
In the eighth installment of the Amstat News series of interviews with ASA presidents and executive directors, we feature a discussion with 2010 President Sastry Pantula.
NSF Big Data Funding Opportunity for the Statistics Community
The National Science Foundation’s BIGDATA program invites proposals in two categories: foundations and innovative applications.