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President’s Column
In his January column President Steve Penneck addresses ISI’s strategic priorities for the coming years, invites members to explore ISI’s new website and announces the search for a new Director.
Nominations Open for the 2023 International Prize in Statistics
The International Prize in Statistics—one of the highest honors in statistics—is awarded every two years to an individual or team “for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology, and human welfare.”
New issue of the Journal of Data Science, Statistics and Visualization (JDSSV)
JDSSV is an international open access and refereed journal, which creates a forum for presenting recent progress and ideas in the different disciplines of data science, statistics, and visualization.
Check out the December 2021 issue of the journal and the related discussion on the topic of ‘Measuring and official statistics on difficult to measure groups’.
Walter Radermacher appointed Chair of the ISI Advisory Board on Ethics
The ABE advises the Executive Committee and Council on relevant ethical issues, and recommends or undertakes activities for promoting observance of ethical principles in statistics.
Prominent British statistician, former ISI President (1995-1997) and inaugural recipient of the International Prize in Statistics passed away on 18 January 2022 at the age of 97.
Pali Lehohla receives an award for leadership in statistics
ISI member and former Statistician-General of South Africa received the award at the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Economie Appliquée (Ensea) in Abijan, Côte d’Ivoire.
IASC offers 25 scholarships including a waiver of the registration fee for participants attending the 16th Brazilian Meeting of Bayesian Statistics and VI Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing.
IASC Signs a Memorandum of Understanding with RASt
IASC President Christophe Croux, ISI Director Ada van Krimpen and the Chairman of the Russian Association of Statisticians Alexey Ponomarenko signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim to increase the collaboration between the societies.
Nominations Open for the 2022 CWS Societal Impact Award
The award will be given annually to a statistician who has actively worked to advance social justice, or diversity, equity and inclusion through their research, teaching or service.
Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics: Call for Nominations
This new biennial prize worth one million US dollars has been created to recognize outstanding statistical innovations with relevance to society. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2022.
Cluster Benchmarking Challenge Call: Published or Accepted Benchmarking Papers of Clustering
The Cluster Benchmarking Task Force of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) is calling for benchmarking papers on clustering methods that have been published or accepted for publication after 1 January 2019.
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