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• NSW Branch: 2022 Annual Event: JB Douglas award, Annual lecture by Prof. Marijka Batterham, Annual Dinner

  • When
    5 Dec 2022
  •  
    2:00 PM - 10:00 PM (AEDT)
  • Location
    the Aerial Function Centre, UTS

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  Please join us for the NSW SSA branch annual event on Monday 5th December at the Aerial Function Centre, UTS from 2pm. The afternoon will start with presentations from PhD students from around NSW for the J. B. Douglas Awards. We are then proud to present our Annual Lecture by Professor Marijka Batterham on Encouraging statistical and data literacy in Nutrition and Dietetics at 6pm, followed by the Annual dinner from 7pm.

  We hope to see everyone there in person. For those wishing to attend virtually please register on this Zoom link.

  Program overview
  

  2.00pm – 5.00pm – J. B. Douglas Award presentations (with refreshment break)

  5.00pm – 6.00pm – Refreshments and Award presentation

  6.00pm – 7.00pm – Annual lecture by Professor Marijka Batterham

  7.00pm – Annual dinner, register by this Thursday Nov 24th

   A full program can be downloaded here.
  

  J. B. Douglas nominees

  • Joseph Descallar, Macquarie University, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
  • Emily Neo, University of Sydney, Business School
  • Xiangnan Xu, University of Sydney, School of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Tom Goodwin, UTS, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
  • Jeffrey Kwan, UNSW, School of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Chris Lisle, University of Wollongong, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia

   

  Annual lecture

  Speaker: Professor Marijka Batterham AdvAPD AStat

  Title: Encouraging statistical and data literacy in Nutrition and Dietetics

  Abstract: This presentation will reflect on some current issues in consulting and teaching in nutrition from the dual perspectives of a Dietitian/Statistician. Topics covered will include statistics anxiety, statistical methods used in nutrition research and how to approach clinical versus statistical significance.

  Bio: Professor Marijka Batterham is an Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian and an Accredited Statistician. She is the Director of the National Institute of Applied Statistics Research Australia and the Statistical Consulting Centre at the University of Wollongong. Marijka is passionate about improving Data literacy and currently leads the UOW Data and Decision Science Initiative aimed at improving UOWs internal and external capacity in Data Science. Her primary area of research interest is in trials and interventions to prevent and manage obesity.

  Our Sponsors

  Thank you to our sponsors that make this event this possible. If your organisation can sponsor a small amount, we would appreciate this. All sponsor logos will be displayed in the J.B. Douglas programme.

  Gold Sponsors
  
  
  
  

  

  HealthStats NSW

  Sponsors
  
  
  Business School, Business Analytics Research

  

  School of Mathematics and Statistics
  
  
  School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
  
  
  School of Mathematics and Statistics
  
  
  National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia

  Any questions, please feel free to contact: secretary.nswbranch@statsoc.org.au.

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• NSW Branch: 2022 Annual Dinner

  • When
    5 Dec 2022
  •  
    7:00 PM (AEDT)
  • Location
    the Aerial Function Centre, UTS
  • Spaces left
    10

  The 2022 NSW branch annual dinner will be held at the Aerial Function Center, UTS, at around 7:00 pm Monday December 5th, right after the Annual Lecture. The dinner will be in a buffet setting, please make sure to specify if you have any dietary requirement.

  To support our early career and student Statisticians community we are providing a discount:

  • If you are student or transitional members, you will be able to use your corresponding registration type provided directly;
    
  • If you are not currently in the two membership type but within 5 years post your last Statistics degree, please sent an email to secretary.nswbranch@statsoc.org.au with your name, last degree name, name of institution, time of our graduation, membership status and current position, we will verify and assist you with your registration.

  Our Sponsors

  Thank you to our sponsors that make this event this possible. If your organisation can sponsor a small amount, we would appreciate this. All sponsor logos will be displayed in the J.B. Douglas programme.

  Gold Sponsors
  
  
  
  

  

  HealthStats NSW

  Sponsors
  
  
  Business School, Business Analytics Research

  

  School of Mathematics and Statistics
  
  
  School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
  
  
  School of Mathematics and Statistics
  
  
  National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia

  Any questions, please feel free to contact: secretary.nswbranch@statsoc.org.au.

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• Canberra Branch -- Knibbs lecture 2022

  • When
    6 Dec 2022
  •  
    5:45 PM - 7:15 PM (AEDT)
  • Location
    Hybrid (in-person and on Zoom)

  SSA Canberra invites you to the 2022 Knibbs lecture, the final branch meeting of the year. This year, we are delighted to have Heather Battey from Imperial College London present in-person (and streamed online) on the roles of R.A. Fisher and D.R. Cox in the development of statistics. 

  After the lecture, in-person attendees (and others if they so wish) are invited to join a dinner afterwards with the speaker. Please see below for more details!

  Date: Tuesday 6 December 2022

  Time: 5:45pm – no later than 7:15pm AEDT   

  Venue: Room 3.02 in Marie Reay Teaching Centre, The Australian National University, or via Zoom. For in-person attendance, please RSVP by 4pm Monday 5 December by entering your details on the SSA Canberra meeting and dinner attendance sheet, or contacting warren.muller@csiro.au.

  For in-person attendance, Masks are recommended but not compulsory. No food or drink is allowed in the venue.

  
  

  Speaker: Heather Battey, Imperial College London 

  Topic: The role of R. A. Fisher and D. R. Cox in the development of statistics

  Abstract: R. A. Fisher instigated a high proportion of the developments in statistics during the first two-thirds of the 20th century. This talk will touch on some of these contributions and their continuing relevance. In particular, it will trace the development of some core methodology of a practicing statistician from their Fisherian origins, with special emphasis on the work of D. R. Cox, its historical context, and subsequent evolution. In the process, some key ideas will be reconstructed from unifying principles, providing a different exposition to that of the original papers.

  Biography: Heather Battey is a Reader in Statistics within the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. Her research is primarily in statistical theory, particularly the theoretical foundations of inference in the presence of a large number of nuisance parameters, for which she holds a fellowship from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. She holds several editorial roles, including for Biometrika and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B.

  Dinner:  

  After the talk we will be holding a dinner at Bamiyan Restaurant, 10 Lonsdale Street, Braddon ACT (https://bamiyanrestaurant.com.au/).

  If you are interested in attending the dinner, please let us know by 6pm Sunday 4 December by entering your details at SSA Canberra meeting and dinner attendance sheet or contacting me (warren.muller@csiro.au; 0407 916 868). Please regard this as a firm commitment, not just an intention. 

  NOTE: We are offering discounts to SSA early career and student members who attend dinner! For this meeting, dinners will be a fixed charge of $10 for student members and $20 for early career members. 

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  Time: Dec 6, 2022 05:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
  
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• SSA Vic: Virtual social event

  • When
    7 Dec 2022
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (AEDT)
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

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  SSA Vic will be hosting an online social event, open to all.

  Come along to this December social event for a chance to catch up with other stat-minded individuals and have a chat about a range of topics the statistical community is facing/will face in the future. We will be joined by our current SSA Presidents Ian Gordon and Jessica Kasza, and we have selected a handful of topics to get us started (below). We welcome you to suggest any additional topics that would be of interest to you, here!

  • Statistics vs Data Science: Similarities and differences
  • Advances in statistics : Significant advances in recent years and future directions
  • The role of science communication in statistics: Should/how can statisticians be more involved in conveying statistical ideas to the lay population as a foundation for policy change (e.g., Covid)?
  • Statistical education: Should we change the way we teach statistics in higher education?
  • Statistical education: What can we do to improve the teaching and development of statistical curriculum in secondary education?

  Drop in from 7pm to 8pm to have a chat and unwind after another hectic year.

  See you there!

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• AMSI Summer School 2023

  • Start
    9 Jan 2023
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    (AEDT)
  • End
    4 Feb 2023
  •  
    (AEDT)
  • Location
    University of Melbourne/ Online

  AMSI Summer School 2023
  

  Calling all honours, post-graduate students and ECRs:

   

  Attend Summer School in Melbourne and get a different view of your mathematical world. Connect with peers, researchers and potential future employers while developing your mathematical skills. You can even take a subject for credit! Spend the first two weeks attending classes and activities on-campus at the University of Melbourne before heading home for the final two weeks to complete the program online (virtual participation for all four weeks also available).

   

  Subjects for 2023 include:

   

  • Analysis of finite element methods for incompressible flow and for elasticity equations
  • Geometric Group Theory
  • Introduction to the modelling of continuous multivariate distributions using copulas
  • Mathematical optimisation and modern applications with Python
  • Nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications
  • Random Matrix Theory in quantum information
  • Spatial statistics
  • Stochastic transport modelling

   

  The program also includes participant talks, a Careers Day and Public Lecture on Mathematics and Culture by Prof. Chris Matthews.

   

  Applications close Sunday 27 November - https://ss.amsi.org.au/

   

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• AMSI Summer Careers Day 2023

  • When
    16 Jan 2023
  •  
    9:30 AM - 1:00 PM (AEDT)
  • Location
    Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston Street, The University of Melbourne, Parkville

  AMSI Summer Careers Day 2023

   Cutting edge research, stock markets, finance, energy, education, even cosmetics industries - careers in the mathematical sciences come in all shapes, colours and sizes!

   Chat to organisations including MECCA, Optiver, AGL, CSRIO's Data61, Reserve Bank of Australia and APR.Intern at the 2023 Summer Careers Day and discover the variety of career pathways for maths, stats and data science grads.

   This is a FREE in-person event open to ALL tertiary students.

   Light refreshments will be provided.

   Register - https://ss.amsi.org.au/careers-day/

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• CPD155- The Necessary SQL - An Introduction to SQL with Daniel Fryer

  • Start
    6 Feb 2023
  •  
    (AEDT)
  • End
    7 Feb 2023
  •  
    (AEDT)
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
  • Spaces left
    24

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  Workshop abstract

  This course is a gentle, fast paced introduction to SQL. Our objective is to build a strong foundation and intuition for SQL programming, with an emphasis on retrieving and transforming data in a robust and testable manner. The course is suitable for beginners with no prior programming experience, but includes plenty of additional material for experienced programmers that are new to SQL. We look at two ‘flavours’ of SQL: the (free) open source MySQL, and Microsoft's proprietary T-SQL. However, all of the fundamentals, which are core SQL standards, are transferable to all other flavours of SQL, such as PostgreSQL, Oracle SQL Live, SQLite, and so on. The course is online with interactive exercises and opportunities for one-on-one support from the instructor. It comes with a detailed textbook, written by the instructor, with carefully structured exercises. Attendance is capped at 25 people. SSA members and non-member students are given a 50% discount, while student members receive an 80% discount.

  Instructor Bio

  Daniel Fryer wrote the first edition of this workshop for the New Zealand Social Statistics Network, University of Auckland, where he’s delivered five iterations over the past three years. He’s an award winning Sessional Lecturer and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, at La Trobe University, Melbourne, where he teaches meta-analysis and database design / SQL to Master’s students, in computer science, statistics and data science. He is a casual Data Scientist at the Social Research Centre, technical sub-editor for the ANZ Journal of Statistics, and executive privacy officer for the Statistical Society of Australia, where he built and manages the society’s longitudinal member database. He is also father of a bouncing baby boy named Charlie, and lives in sunny Far North Melbourne. Somehow, he finds time to work on his PhD, applying coalitional game theory in machine learning, at the University of Queensland, where he recently received the UQ Future Superstars Award for outstanding contributions in science learning, communication, research, teaching, service, mentoring and leadership.

  Timetable

  1. 9:00am – 10:30am
  2. Short break: 10:30am - 11:00am
  3. Lecture 2: 11:00am – 12:30pm
  4. Lunch: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
  5. Hands-on: 1:30pm – 3:00pm (guided walk-through exercises)
  6. Hands-on: 3:00pm – 5:00pm (one-on-one help sessions)

  Both sessions (days) start at 9am and finish at 5 pm.

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• 64 World Statistics Congress

  • Start
    16 Jul 2023
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    (EDT)
  • End
    20 Jul 2023
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    (EDT)
  • Location
    Ottawa, Canada

  The 64^th WSC 2023, to be held 16-20 July in Ottawa, Canada, will highlight the developments and contributions of statistics, statistical science, and data science in all aspects of life, particularly the well-being and welfare of people. The WSC 2023 will host talks and presentations on a wide variety of topics, with the overall goal of presenting a balanced program that provides a sense of the current state and future direction of statistics and their applications.

  The program will span the full field of statistics including academia, business, industry, government and official statistics in line with the breadth of ISI and the Associations affiliated with ISI. Topics include but are not limited to official statistics, survey statistics, environmental statistics, business and industrial applications of statistics, mathematical statistics, probability, statistics and data science, statistics education, statistical literacy, statistical computing and data visualization.

  The opening of the submission process, which is planned for March, will be announced on the congress website WSC 2023.
  

  General enquiries about the Scientific Programme should be directed to scientific@isi2023.org.

  For more information please click here.
  

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• Spatial Statistics 2023: Climate and the Environment Inbox

  • Start
    18 Jul 2023
  •  
    (MDT)
  • End
    21 Jul 2023
  •  
    (MDT)
  • Location
    University of Colorado Boulder, USA

  Welcome to the 6^th Spatial Statistics conference, which will be held at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA, from 18 - 21 July 2023 under the theme Climate and the Environment.

  The conference will provide a forum to debate and discuss how to use spatially referenced data to advance our understanding and provide support for decision making in the domain of Earth system dynamics.

  This conference will focus on climate change dynamics, their causes, their effects and their future. The conference theme will be the perspective of the Earth as a unified system with connections and feedbacks between physical and biological spheres and also human activities. Crucial developments in the methodology are in new scalable methods, spatio-temporal statistics, prediction and statistical aspects of modeling, like spatial and spatio-temporal extremes, attribution and forecasting.

  Conference Topics

  Methods

  • Space-time statistics, e.g. geostatistics, point patterns, estimation methods, large dimensions
  • Spatial deep learning
  • Inverse modeling
  • Modeling of extremes
  • Stochastic geometry, tesselation, point processes, random sets
  • Causal statistical modeling
  • Trajectory/movement modeling

  Applications

  • Climate system modeling and observations
  • Health e.g. epidemiology, geohealth and global health
  • Spatially-Explicit Ecological Models
  • Plant and animal epidemiology
  • Quantifying the spatial extent of hazards and risk
  • Crime and poverty mapping
  • Space/time econometrics
  • Interface of Neural Computing and Spatial/Spatio-Temporal Statistics
  • Inferring Movement and Behavior from Telemetry

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• IBS-AR Biometrics Conference

  • Start
    27 Nov 2023
  • End
    1 Dec 2023

  The conference will be joint with SEEM at Bay Of Islands in New Zealand.

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• ASC and OZCOTS 2023- Register your interest!

  • Start
    10 Dec 2023
  •  
    8:00 AM (AEDT)
  • End
    15 Dec 2023
  •  
    5:00 PM (AEDT)
  • Location
    Wollongong

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  The local organising committee warmly invites you to the 2023 Australian Statistical Conference (ASC) and Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics (OZCOTS), which will take place in Wollongong from the 10th to the 15th of December 2023. Save the date and register your interest now!

  The theme for the 2023 Australian Statistical Conference (ASC) is ‘Statisticians in society’, focussing on the key role statisticians play in communication across diverse areas that are key to our society.

  ASC 2023 will bring together statisticians from across Australia, as an opportunity to communicate with one another, and advance our collective knowledge of statistical methods and applications. We look forward to offering a diverse program featuring speakers from academia, government and industry across a range of disciplines and career stages. There are plans to offer some parts of the conference in a hybrid format as well. Information on Keynote Speakers and the Conference program will be available at a later date so please watch this space for updates. 

  The conference will be held at the University of Wollongong, situated in the heart of Wollongong. Wollongong is the third-largest city in New South Wales and only an hour from Sydney. Wollongong offers an escape-worthy collection of world-class beaches, playful adventures, eats, arts and iconic attractions. 

  ASC/OZCOTS 2023 promises to be a truly amazing experience on both a professional and a social level. We look forward to seeing you in Wollongong in 2023!

  
  

  For our Sponsors: The Conference provides the perfect forum for companies actively involved in the statistical community to promote their products and services. Contact us now to find out more about your sponsorship options.

  For our Exhibitors:  The Conference provides an opportunity for exhibitors to engage one on one with delegates and present videos, as well as providing a number of branding and product placement facilities.

  Check out the official conference website here.

  Contact: events.statsoc@gmail.com

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• Bayesian Non-Parametric Networking Workshop

  • Start
    11 Dec 2023
  • End
    15 Dec 2023
  • Location
    Melbourne

  2nd BNP Networking Workshop 2023, Melbourne, Australia — December 11-15, 2023.

  To receive information and updates on the BNP Networking Workshop 2023, please register at LINK

  Website: https://bnp-isba.github.io/

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