Read the January column of the ISI President John Bailer providing an account of the ISI activities for the coming period including the WSC 2021, the IYWSDS and the forthcoming ISI member survey.

In her January column ISI Director Ada van Krimpen expresses hope for a good and successful 2021and describes ISI’s plans for the near future.

The ISI Jan Tinbergen Awards are for best papers for the biennial World Statistics Congresses (WSC) by young statisticians. Each award consists of €2,500 prize money and complimentary WSC registration. The deadline for applications is 15 February 2021.

The December 2020 issue of ISR (Volume 88, Issue S1) is a special issue featuring International Prize in Statistics Winner Brad Efron.

Read the latest news on the journal Stat, including updates on special issues and the new free format for submissions.

The third part of the webinar series titled “A statistician reads the news: Statistics and data science challenges in content analytics” will be held on 19 February 2021.

The Latin American Regional Section of the IASC held its first successful Webinar on Statistical Inference in Markov Processes. The course was attended by 71 students from 24 countries.

The Latin American Regional Section of the IASC invites postgraduate and undergraduate students to attend the Webinar Course “Geostatistical Functional Data Analysis” on 23-25 February 2021. The deadline for applications is 10 February.

y-BIS, the young members wing of ISBIS, is pleased to announce a webinar session targeted at PhD students and young statisticians to be held on 28 January 2021.

The second part of the webinar series titled “Quantitative Finance and the Critical Role of Statistics and Data Science” will be held on 22 January 2021.

Seppo S. Laaksonen, ISI Elected member and Professor Emeritus of Social Statistics in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, passed away on 20 December 2020.

The ISBIS 2021 satellite meeting will be held virtually on 7 May 2021, from 2.00-5.00 pm CET.

The 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing LACSC 2021 will be held fully online from 19 to 21 April 2021.

The IASC-ISI Nomination Committee congratulates four new ISI elected members from IASC

ASMBI (Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry), the official ISBIS journal, recently published a special issue devoted to selected papers from the 36th ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference QPRC-2019.

This international prize, designed to encourage more young statisticians to take an active interest in official statistics, is awarded for the best paper in the field of official statistics written by a young statistician. Submissions are due by 12 February 2020.

IASS invites submission of papers for the 2021 edition of the Cochran-Hansen award for young statisticians from developing countries. The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2021.

The themes of the December issue of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS are COVID-19 and Progress in the UN ESCAP (Asia Pacific) member countries in producing and disseminating official statistics. The journal welcomes papers on important topics relevant to official statistics.

In addition to travel awards and IASC membership award for the winners, additional book prizes will be offered by Springer.

The Third IASC-LARS School on Computational Statistics and Data Science will be held fully online from 17-18 April 2021.

The 16th International Conference of the Mathematics Education for the Future project, titled "Building on the past to prepare for the future", is planned as an in-person meeting at King's College of Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

The U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) will be held virtually from 28 June to 1 July 2021 under the theme “Expanding Opportunities."

The Latin American Regional Committee (LARC) of the Bernoulli Society has nominated new candidates for the renewal of the Committee.

There is still time to nominate for the inaugural David G. Kendall Award, the deadline is 31 January 2021. This new prize for an excellent young researcher will be awarded every two years.

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The IASC Executive Committee would like to thank its sponsors and donors for generously offering support to IASC in 2020.