The Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia proudly presents the 2026 Dennis Trewin Prize seminar.
Date: Tuesday 27 October 2026
Time: 4:45 pm - 6:45 pm AEDT followed by dinner (details below)
Format: Hybrid
Venue: Allan Barton Forum, Level 2, ANU College of Business & Economics, Building 26C, The Australian National University (ANU Building 26C)
Online by Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/81690937173?pwd=pSQMBrtL8KjG2c5R18bnASo5bdzo6h.1
NB: registration not required for this event
The Dennis Trewin Prize, named after the former Australian Statistician Dennis Trewin AO, is awarded annually by the ACT Branch for outstanding early career research in an area related to statistics and/or data science conducted within the ACT or regional NSW outside Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong.
This year we have three candidates who will present their work, with a selection panel determining the winner. Each candidate will have 20-25 minutes for their presentation and 5 minutes for audience questions. In partnership with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, monetary prizes totalling $1,000 or more will be on offer and distributed at the discretion of the selection panel.
After the presentations the panel will be given time to deliberate, while those attending in-person will be asked to move outside and will have the opportunity to mingle with the candidates. Once the panel has reached a decision, attendees will be invited back into the room for the announcement of the results.
Also, we will be having an SSA ACT dinner that evening at Badger & Co in the ANU, Health & Well-being Centre, Kambri Precinct, so if you are interested in attending the dinner and catching up with members and friends in person, please see below for RSVP details.
Speakers and presentation titles (not necessarily in this order)
Piumi Perera
A Location-Scale Linked Autoregressive Moving Average Model for Wind Direction Time Series Data
Yunqing (Caitlin) Xu
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Responsible Learning for Insurance Pricing: Privacy-preserving vs Prediction Accuracy
Ashis Talukder
Caesarean Births and the Double Burden of Malnutrition: A Multilevel Modelling Approach Using National Survey Data from South and Southeast Asia.
Abstracts and Speaker Bios
Dinner:
After the talks we will be holding a dinner at Badger & Co, Health & Well-being Centre, Kambri Precinct, ANU at 7.00pm.
If you plan to attend the dinner, please RSVP by 5:00 pm on Monday 27 April by entering your details in the SSA ACT Branch dinner attendance sheet, or by contacting Warren at wjmstats@outlook.com or 0407 916 868. Please treat your RSVP as a firm commitment rather than an expression of interest.
If you need to withdraw after the deadline, please remove your name from the attendance sheet and notify Warren by phone or text on 0407 916 868. Please note that last-minute requests to attend during the event cannot be accommodated, so be sure to RSVP through the attendance sheet in advance.
NOTE: SSA ACT branch are offering discounts to SSA early career and student members who attend dinner! For this meeting, dinners will be a fixed charge of $15 for student members and $25 for early career members. As the venue is card payment only, subsidised participants should pay cash to Luca Maestrini or Warren Muller, who will pay for their meal by card. Other participants should purchase their own meals.
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