Past Events

NISS Webinar: What’s in a name – data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and what else?

Event Date:
September 27, 2019 12-2 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
September 27, 2019 12-2:00 pm ET [9-11 am PT]

United States
If you have been following the ongoing discussion of data science and the role of statistics in data science, or wondering about the increasing use of phrases like machine learning and artificial intelligence in the business world, you will definitely want to take advantage of a free webinar on... more

NISS Virtual Industry Career Fair for NISS Affiliates!

Event Date:
September 26, 2019 12:00 - 1:45 EDT
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Virtual Meet-up

United States
Attention Job Seekers! Are you on the job market?  Or, is it time that you began thinking about next steps? NISS has put together a low-stress, informative and conversational event with a handful of prospective employers in fields related to statistics.  NISS has invited experienced, senior... more

StatFest 2019

Event Date:
September 21, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
1200 Pressler St
Houston, Texas, 77030
United States
StatFest is a one-day conference aimed at encouraging undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups to consider careers and graduate studies in the statistical sciences. We are excited that StatFest 2019 will be held at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston!... more

Record Linkage Workshop

Event Date:
September 20, 2019
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455
United States
Explore how subject matter experts in four distinct fields of work use machine learning methods to link databases together. What works? What doesn’t? Leverage their collective knowledge and discover new approaches for overcoming common methodological challenges. This event will include four... more

NISS-Merck Virtual Meet-up on Subgroup Analysis

Event Date:
September 10, 2019 11-12:30 EDT
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
There has been increasing interest in subgroup analysis as part of drug development. There are a wide variety of motivations for such analysis, for example, finding subgroups with the best benefit-risk tradeoff, identifying super- or non-responders or subgroups with an unacceptable safety profile.... more

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

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