After two decades of advancing research in statistics, applied mathematics and domain science, SAMSI closed down at the end of August 2021. It celebrated its achievements with a final conference (in hybrid format) on August 21, where a host of distinguished speakers addressed a range of topics to which SAMSI…

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IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Ramsés Mena; Subhashis Ghosal; Fernando Quintana This event marks the continuation of the successful series of Bayesian Nonparametric Workshops. It aims at congregating in Chile leading experts in this already consolidated and rapidly expanding field. The event considers a full week of plenary, invited, contributed…

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Ruobin Gong, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University, continues her “Sound The Gong” column with a reflection on what lessons we can, and should learn, from the experiences of teaching and learning online. Prior to March 2020, taking classes towards a college or graduate degree remotely was anything but…

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Contributing Editor Radu Craiu shares some concerns about the impact of the pandemic on young researchers:  By the time we start to grasp what it means to be young, the youth itself is gone. Whether it drowns in too much truth or too many compromises matters less than the realization…

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This 2-day virtual course is based on the Data Science and Predictive Analytics (DSPA) course that the instructor teaches at the University of Michigan. The training will provide intermediate to advanced learners with a solid data science foundation to address challenges related to collecting, managing, processing, interrogating, analyzing and interpreting…

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