In his penultimate President’s column, John Bailer reflects on his work in statistics as being a collection of calls and invites the members to do the same.

Register before 23 June in order to have the early bird rate. From 24 June, registration fees will increase for all delegates.

The ISI pre-WSC short courses programme, organized in cooperation with the ISI Associations, runs from 6 May – 1 July 2021. We invite ISI members as well as the broader statistical community to participate in the programme.

See our overview of Satellite Meetings to the ISI WSC 2021! Visit the meeting's website for more information on the meeting theme(s) and registration.

The International Biometric Society (IBS) and the ISI are thrilled to announce two ISI & IBS Young Ambassadors who have been selected to participate in the Virtual ISI WSC 2021.

Significance is a bimonthly magazine for anyone interested in statistics and the analysis and interpretation of data. The June 2021 issue is now available to read online.

We regret to announce the death of ISI Elected Member Dr. J. Leroy Folks on 6 June 2021.

Watch this wonderful documentary summarizing C.R. Rao’s life and contributions by producers Tejaswini Rao and Veerendra C. Rao and director Rahul Koda.

We regret to announce the passing of ISI Elected Member Dr. James P. M. Ntozi on 19 May 2021.

The 11th conference of the Asian Regional Section of IASC will take place at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan (delivered in a hybrid format) between 21-24 February 2022.

Registration is open for the joint virtual conference taking place on 7-9 July 2021, hosted by the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

The webinar was held on 29-30 April 2021 and attracted 175 participants from 44 different countries.

The latest discussion topic on the Official Statistics Discussion platform is on Misuse of Statistics: Time to Speak Out.

The IASC 2021 General Assembly (GA) will take place on Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 15:00-17:00 CEST, as a virtual event.

IASC holds its election for the 2021-2023 Executive Committee between 1-30 June 2021.

The 2022 International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) Conference will be held in Krakow, Poland from 26-28 April 2022.

The first place award including a travel grant and a book prize, is awarded to J. Sousa Pimentel, R. Bulhoes, V. Mesquita, P. Canas Rodrigues for their poster ‘Spatio-temporal modelling of Brazilian wildfires’.

The International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) invites all interested to attend this webinar to be held on 25 June 2021 at 13.00-14.30 CEST.

Sequential Design of Experiments and Some New Space-Filling Designs – 6 July 2021

The 2021 International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) General Assembly will be held on 8 July 2021 at 14.00 -15.00 CEST.

The Bernoulli Society General Assembly will be held virtually on 8 July 2021 at 15:00-15:30 CEST.

Register for the Congress by 20 June 2021 to profit from the early bird registration fee.

The David G. Kendall award for young researchers is awarded jointly by the Bernoulli Society and the Royal Statistical Society to recognize excellent research in Mathematical Statistics and in Probability Theory.

Andreas Georgiou, the former head of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), was voted as the European Parliament’s representative at the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB).

IBC2022 will be held from 11-15 July 2022 in Riga, Latvia. The conference will be preceded by a programme of short courses on 10 July 2022.

Listen to the latest episodes with Harrison Schramm (‘The Impact of Remote Learning’), Xiao-Li Meng (‘Big Data Soup’) and Tom Braun & Emily Morris (‘STATCOM’).

The 8ECM will be held virtually from 20-26 June 2021.

The sixth conference and workshop on Statistical Methods in Finance will be held virtually on 28 June –2 July 2021.

This webinar is organized on the occasion of the presentation of the book “Why Inegi? The saga of a Mexican institution in search of the truth” by Mario Palma and will take place on 29 June 2021.