Past Events
Event Date:
Wednesday, November 10th, 12 - 1:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Interested in a statistics or data science position in the hi-tech industry sector? Then this session should interest you!
This virtual career fair event is the eleventh in a series of Virtual... more
Event Date:
Thursday, November 4, 2021 12:30 - 2 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Research grants are important for career advancement. Grants also allow researchers to protect their time while providing resources necessary for statisticians in academia to pursue an... more
Event Date:
Thursday, November 4, 2021 - 11:00am - 12:30 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted
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The National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS) and Merck are sponsoring a Virtual Meet-Up on Diversity and Inclusion issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Overview
There is general... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - (12:00 - 1:30 ET)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Interested in a statistics or data science position in the consumer products or pharmaceutical industry? Then this session is for you!
This virtual career fair event is the tenth in a series of... more
Event Date:
Monday, October 11, 2021
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Georgia Statistics Day Conference Series ♦ Emory University
The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University welcomes you to the 2021 Georgia Statistics Day (GSD).
GSD is a one-day local research event designed to promote... more
Event Date:
September 24, October 1, and October 8, 2021
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Virtual Conference
United States
United States
Total Survey Error in the Age of COVID-19
After a hiatus in 2020, ITSEW returns this year as a series of three virtual weekly seminars on the theme Total Survey Error in the Age of COVID-19. As with earlier workshops, the goal is to promote discussion of questions of research, methodology and... more
Event Date:
October 8 - 10, 2021
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Elliott University Center
507 Stirling Street
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina, 27412
United States
507 Stirling Street
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina, 27412
United States
International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics
The main objective of the conference is to promote interdisciplinary research involving statistical techniques. These techniques are becoming increasingly important in all fields of scientific discovery. A unique... more
Event Date:
Wednesday, October 6 — Thursday, October 7, 2021
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Virtual and Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center
University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802
United States
University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802
United States
Digital fairness is a crucial consideration for any scientist who relies on computation. Who owns artificial intelligence models and who owns the data in those models? What biases are unintentionally embedded in the models? How transparent are the data manipulation processes? How reproducible are... more
Event Date:
October 3 - October 6, 2021
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Villas by the Sea
1175 Beachview Dr North
Jekyll Island, Georgia, 31527
United States
1175 Beachview Dr North
Jekyll Island, Georgia, 31527
United States
The Southern Regional Council on Statistics (SRCOS) Summer Research Conference (SRC) has been successful for 55 years.
This summer conference is particularly valuable for graduate students, providing them with the opportunity to interact closely with internationally-known leaders in the field... more
Event Date:
September 24, 2021 10:30 – 11:30 am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Statistical Learning: Causal-oriented and Robust
Speaker
Peter Bühlmann, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich
Abstract
Reliable, robust and interpretable machine learning is a big emerging theme in data science and artificial intelligence, complementing the development of pure black box prediction... more