Past Events
Event Date:
August 7 & 14, 2020
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. Note the Adjusted Dates: This workshop will take place August 7 and August 14. This will follow the JSM virtual schedule.
Once again this very popular short course will be hosted by NISS. If you are a recent graduate of a doctoral program and want to improve your... more
Event Date:
July 29, 2020 1-2 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Overview Session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
Dates and times for the top ten topic sessions listed below to be announced soon!
NISS announces a brand new series of tutorials... more
Event Date:
July 21 & 28, 2020 10 - 11:30 am ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story for Session One and the News Story for Session Two to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
NISS is announcing a new Ingram Olkin Forum Series Event!
Unplanned Clinical Trial Disruptions
COVID-19... more
Event Date:
July 17 & 24, 2020 at 1 p.m. ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
ASA, ISI, and NISS will host a series of open town hall discussions. The purpose of these discussions is to understand the breadth of the statistics community involvement at their local, state or national level in Covid-19 public health efforts.
Format
There are 4 town halls planned with the... more
Event Date:
July 24, 2020, 11 am EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
Curating a COVID-19 Data Repository and Forecasting County-level Death Counts in the United States
Speaker
Dr. Bin Yu, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor, University of California Berkeley
Abstract
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to evolve, accurate forecasting continues to play an extremely... more
Event Date:
July 17, 2020 11 am EDT
The COVID-19 Forecast Hub: Using Statistics and Data Science to Support Decision-making in a Pandemic
Speaker
Dr. Nicholas G Reich, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Abstract
The COVID-19 Forecast Hub is a consortium of modeling teams from across the world making forecasts of the COVID-19... more
Event Date:
Friday, July 10, 2020
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
Semiparametric Bayesian Inference for the Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 with a State-Space Model
Speaker
Dr. Yuan Ji, Professor, University of Chicago
Abstract
The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing pandemic affecting over 200 countries and regions. Inference about... more
Event Date:
July 7, 2020 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Smoothness in Nonsmooth Optimization
Speaker
Adrian S. Lewis, Cornell University
Abstract
Fast black-box nonsmooth optimization, while theoretically out of reach in the worst case, has long been an intriguing goal in practice. Generic concrete nonsmooth objectives are "partly" smooth: their... more
Event Date:
July 2nd, 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Recent Advances in Stochastic Programming
Abstract
Traditionally stochastic optimization was discussed in the realms of Markov Decision Processes (MDP), Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) and Stochastic Programming (SP). Although MDP, SOC and SP are supposed to deal with somewhat related classes of... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 1 - 3 pm (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Tutorial
United States
United States
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
The Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model is being used by scientists around the world to study the infectious disease dynamics of the COVID-19... more