Past Events
Event Date:
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Free Zoom Webinar
United States
United States
Abstract
Title: Arena: An open platform for evaluating LLMs by human preference
Abstract: This talk dives into the methodology behind Arena, an open platform for evaluating LLMs using large-scale human preference data from real-world interactions, addressing the limitations of static benchmarks... more
Event Date:
Wednesdays, April 1 - June 17, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm ET on Zoom
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Zoom
United States
United States
Register for this twelve‑week short course series led by Tucker S. McElroy, Senior Time Series Mathematical Statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau!
Register on Eventbrite
Overview
Across twelve one‑hour sessions, participants will walk through the full content of Time Series: A First... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Free Zoom Webinar
United States
United States
Please Note: this event has already taken place, the webinar recording and news story will become available soon.
Overview
Join us for our next COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar: Leadership in Esametry: Within-Individual Statistics of N-of-1 Trials and Single-Case Designs, featuring Dr. Christopher... more
Event Date:
Friday, April 10 - Sunday, April 12 2026, All day
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
UGA Innovation District, 210 Spring Street, Athens, GA, 30602
United States
United States
Overview
The Department of Statistics is excited to host UGA’s first-ever ASA DataFest, an engaging and fast-paced, weekend-long data analysis competition sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA).
Over the course of 48 hours, undergraduate and graduate students will work in... more
Event Date:
Thursday, April 9, 2026 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Please Note: this event has already taken place, a news story and recording will become available soon!
Abstract:
The rapid ascent of Artificial Intelligence has created a critical point for the field of statistics. As AI transitions from a specialized research area to a foundational literacy... more
Event Date:
Wednesdays, April 1 - June 17, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm ET on Zoom
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Zoom
United States
United States
Register for this twelve‑week short course series led by Tucker S. McElroy, Senior Time Series Mathematical Statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau!
Register on Eventbrite
Overview
Across twelve one‑hour sessions, participants will walk through the full content of Time Series: A First... more
Event Date:
Friday, April 3, 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Brooks Hall, Room 145
University of Georgia
Georgia,
United States
University of Georgia
Georgia,
United States
Featured Speaker:
Lars Peter Hansen, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Agenda:
3:30 - 4:00pm - Arrival
4:00 - 4:05pm - Opening Remarks, Brooks Hall 145
4:05 - 5:00pm - Lecture, Dr. Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, Brooks Hall 145
5:00 - 5:30pm - Break
5:30 - 7:00pm - Dinner,... more
Event Date:
Wednesdays, April 1 - June 17, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm ET on Zoom
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Register for this twelve‑week short course series led by Tucker S. McElroy, Senior Time Series Mathematical Statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau!
Register on Eventbrite
Overview
Across twelve one‑hour sessions, participants will walk through the full content of Time Series: A First... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Overview
Join us for the COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar exploring how leaders in translational statistics and machine learning collaborate with clinical teams. This session highlights practical strategies for connecting analytical methods with real-world clinical needs. Participants will gain... more
Event Date:
Thursday, March 26, 2026 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Department of Statistics
Brooks Hall - Room 145
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602,
United States
Brooks Hall - Room 145
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602,
United States
Download Flyer: UGA Clemson 2026 Flyer_0.pdf (136.78 KB)
Speaker:
Prof. Sujit K. Ghosh
Department of Statistics
NC State University
Title: Are We There Yet? A Probabilistic Journey to Global Optima
Abstract: Global optimization over non-convex landscapes is notoriously difficult—akin... more