Past Events

The Fourth Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI)^{4}

Event Date:
August 17-19, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri,
United States
The Fourth Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI)^{4} seeks to build upon the success of previous workshops by presenting the latest developments in post-selection inference, and discussing how tools from higher-order asymptotics can both elucidate important... more

NISS Affiliates Luncheon Meeting at JSM 2019

Event Date:
Sunday, July 28, 2019; 11:30 - 2 pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
Event Location:
Hyatt Regency Denver
Mineral Hall C
Denver, Colorado,
United States
This online registration is closed.  If you wish to attend the luncheon, please send an email to rfreret@niss.org. Each year at JSM, NISS Affiliates get together for a luncheon. Each Affiliate is welcome to send one or two representatives to the luncheon.  Typically the department head and the... more

2019 NISS Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers (at JSM)

Event Date:
July 28 & 30, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Denver Convention Center
Denver, Colorado,
United States
Share a Flyer with Colleagues! Course Objective The goal of the workshop is to provide instruction for writing journal articles and grant proposals. Participants will be required to provide a recent sample of their writing, which will be reviewed by a senior mentor. The sample could be a current... more

Workshop on Climate and Weather Extremes

Event Date:
July 22-24, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, California, 94720
United States
The previous Workshop on Climate and Weather Extremes was held in State College, PA, on October 23-25, 2016. The 2019 workshop will be similar in that it will serve two complementary purposes. The first is to introduce graduate students, as well as others wishing to enter into the area of extreme... more

Inaugural Ingram Olkin S3 Forum: Gun Violence — The Statistical Issues

Event Date:
June 26 and 27, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Registration by invitation - please fill out the pre-event registration form
Alexandria, Virginia,
United States
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES ANNOUNCES THE INAUGURAL INGRAM OLKIN STATISTICS SERVING SOCIETY (S3) FORUM Gun Violence — The Statistical Issues In honor of Ingram Olkin (1924-2016), a principal founder of NISS and an internationally prominent statistician whose work stressed the... more

The 36th Quality and Productivity Research Conference

Event Date:
June 10-13, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
American University, East Campus
Constitution Hall
3501 Nebraska Ave., NW
Washington, District of Columbia, 20016
United States
This conference is being hosted by American University in Washington D.C. on June 10-13, 2019 Researchers from across academia, industry, and government are invited to participate in the conference, exchange ideas, organize sessions, and present their research related to the spirit of QPRC and this... more

MBI Bayesian Causal Inference Workshop

Event Date:
June 2 - 4, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Mathematical Biosciences Institute
The Ohio State University
Jennings Hall 3rd Floor, 1735 Neil Ave.
Columbus, Ohio, 43210
United States
Description of this Workshop Causality lies at the heart of many scientific research endeavors, including Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Economics, Computer Science, Data Science, Sociology, Political Science, etc. In recent years, the use of Bayesian methods in causal inference has drawn... more

2019 SRCOS Summer Research Conference

Event Date:
June 2-5, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
General Butler State Resort Park
1608 Highway 227
Carollton, Kentucky, 41008
United States
The various functions of SRCOS change over time, depending upon the needs and concerns of the statistics community. At present, the Council is involved in discussions of problems concerning teaching, consulting, research, ethics, courts of law, curricula, and student recruitment. The Southern... more

Tripods Center Workshop: Structure in the Micro-World

Event Date:
May 28 - 31, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Translational Data Analytics Institute
320 Pomerene Hall
1760 Neil Ave.
Columbus, Ohio, 43210
United States
Description of this Workshop: Geometry and topology play a key role in describing nature at the microscopic scales. Shape determines the function of proteins in biochemistry, macroscopic properties of materials, and even behaviors of organisms. This workshop will bring together researchers... more

NISS Webinar: "Alternatives to the Traditional p-value"

Event Date:
May 23, 2019 12-2:00 pm ET [9-11 am PT]
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
PLEASE NOTE:  Thank you for your interest in this session!  Due to the popularity of the topic for this webinar the number of registrations has exceeded the capacity of our Zoom Meeting space!  Not to worry, we have arranged for the event to be live-streamed through our YouTube channel. ... more

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