Upcoming Events
Event Date:
Friday, November 6, 2026
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University (FSU) has announced that Bin Yu, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, is the 2026 Myles Hollander... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Event Location:
United States
United States
2026 Federal Holiday Schedule
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-holidays/#url=2026
Date Holiday
Thursday, January 01 New Year’s Day
Monday, January 19 Martin Luther King,... more
Event Date:
Thursday, November 12, 2026 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
United States
United States
Full webinar details coming soon!
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About the NISS-CANSSI Collaborative Data Science Web Series:
The NISS-CANSSI Collaborative Data Science initiative that the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) in collaboration with the Canadian... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, November 17, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:00pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Overview
The session looks at how long-running research programs in statistical theory and causal inference take shape: how problems get chosen, when to stick with a hard one and when to let it go, and how theory and applied collaboration feed each other. Panelists will describe how their own work... more
Event Date:
Friday, November 20, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping the business landscape, offering unprecedented opportunities to accelerate growth, optimize operations, and unlock new forms of value. Yet as organizations race to adopt AI, many struggle to translate experimentation into measurable return... more
Event Date:
Thursday, November 26, 2026
Event Location:
United States
United States
2026 Federal Holiday Schedule
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-holidays/#url=2026
Date Holiday
Thursday, January 01 New Year’s Day
Monday, January 19 Martin Luther King,... more
Event Date:
Friday, November 27, 2026
Event Location:
United States
United States
2026 Federal Holiday Schedule
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-holidays/#url=2026
Date Holiday
Thursday, January 01 New Year’s Day
Monday, January 19 Martin Luther King,... more
Event Date:
Date: FALL TBD 2026
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Instructor
Trent D. Buskirk, Ph.D., Professor and Provost Data Science Fellow, School of Data Science, Old Dominion University
Registration Coming Soon!
About the Instructor
Trent D. Buskirk, Ph.D. is a Professor and Provost Data Science Fellow, School of Data Science at Old Dominion University.... more
Event Date:
Thursday, December 10, 2026 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Free Zoom Webinar
United States
United States
Abstract
Title: Knowledge-Augmented Causal Discovery: Integrating LLM-Based Knowledge Systems with Data-Driven Structure Learning
Abstract: Causal discovery from data is limited by the structure of available datasets (finite samples, measurement error, unmeasured confounding, incomplete variable... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, December 15, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Speaker
Yichi Zhang, Data Scientist at YouTube, Google
Moderator
Grace Deng, Research Data Scientist, Google
Abstract
Large language models are now routinely used to classify text at scale, producing variables that are then analyzed as though they had been observed directly. Because decoding is... more
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