Past Events
Event Date:
Friday and Saturday, September 28-29, 2018
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Stephen Hawking Auditorium, Mitchell Institute
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, 77843
United States
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, 77843
United States
Sponsored by the Department of Statistics, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (IAMCS), Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (STATMOS) and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, the Workshop on Point Process Models will offer a series of speakers, a... more
Event Date:
Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 9:30am to Sunday, September 23, 2018 - 4:59pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts,
United States
Amherst, Massachusetts,
United States
Learn about statistics and data science careers in industry, government, and academia. Underrepresented students (African American, Hispanic, Native Americans) with analytical interests are particularly encouraged to attend and learn about exciting career and graduate study opportunities in... more
Event Date:
Friday and Saturday, September 21-22, 2018
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
SAMSI Offices
79 T. W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709
United States
79 T. W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709
United States
To register for this course, please send an email to RFRERET@niss.org.
COURSE OUTLINE
R is a flexible, extensible statistical computing environment, but it is limited to single-core execution. Spark is a distributed computing environment which treats R as a first-class programming language. This... more
Event Date:
September 17 - 19, 2018
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Columbus, Ohio,
United States
United States
The field of Genetic Epidemiology has historically focused on the inheritance of genetic factors and phenotypes within families. However, the increase in ever improving technologies brought a shift from familial study designs to genome wide association studies (GWAS) utilizing samples of unrelated... more
Event Date:
September 8 - 10, 2018
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Campus of Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri,
United States
St. Louis, Missouri,
United States
The Third Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI)^{3} seeks to build upon the success of the first workshop and second workshop, by presenting the latest developments in post-selection inference, and discussing how tools from higher-order asymptotics can both... more
Event Date:
Sunday, July 29, 2018 and Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
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 draft of an article to be... more
Event Date:
Sunday, June 3, 2018 - 5:00pm to Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 12:05pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Virginia Beach Resort Hotel and Conference Center
2800 Shore Drive
Virginia Beach, Virginia, 23451
United States
2800 Shore Drive
Virginia Beach, Virginia, 23451
United States
This is a Summer Research Conference organized by Old Dominion University from June 3-6, 2018.
The conference includes an impressive list of speakers, workshops, and student poster presentations.
Program Chairs: Susmita Datta, University of Florida and Rudy Guerra, Rice University
Keynote Speakers... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 - 7:00am to Saturday, May 19, 2018 - 3:30pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Hyatt Regency Reston
1800 Presidents Street
Reston, Virginia, 20190
United States
1800 Presidents Street
Reston, Virginia, 20190
United States
Conference Objective
The Symposium on Data Science and Statistics is designed for data scientists, computer scientists, and statisticians who analyze and visualize complex data.
NISS Full-Day Short Course on May 16
Jim Harner, NISS Representative and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at West... more
Event Date:
Friday, April 13, 2018 - 9:00am to Saturday, April 14, 2018 - 4:59pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
University of Georgia
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 277
Athens, Georgia, 30602
United States
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 277
Athens, Georgia, 30602
United States
Objective
The Network of Greater Georgia Institutions for Neuroimaging and Statistics (NOGGINS) workshop provides a forum for scientific communication and collaboration between researchers in the area of neuroscience and neuroimaging.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Timothy Johnson of the University of... more
Event Date:
Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 4:30pm to Friday, March 30, 2018 - 5:59pm
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Brooks Hall Athens,
Georgia, 30602
United States
Georgia, 30602
United States
NISS is co-sponsoring The University of Georgia/Clemson University Joint Seminar. Since the 1970's the University of Georgia Department of Statistics and the Clemson University Mathematical Sciences Department have organized the annual UGA/Clemson Joint Seminar which alternates between Athens and... more