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The Department of Statistics of the University of Connecticut is proud to host The 23rd New England Statistics Symposium on Saturday, April 25, 2009. Our purpose is to bring together statisticians from all over New England to a central location to share research, discuss emerging issues in the field and network with colleagues.James O. Berger of Duke University and Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute and Richard A. Davis of the Department of Statistics at Columbia University will give the keynote talks. There will be several invited themed sessions in Applied Statistics, Bioinformatics and Genetics, Career Opportunities in Statistics, Probability and Statistical Education. Further details about these sessions will be posted in the Invited Sessions section of this website as the program is finalized.
In addition, there will be contributed paper sessions, allowing 15 to 20 minutes per paper. We invite talks on all aspects of statistics and probability. Reports on work in progress are welcome. To insure a place in these sessions, please submit an abstract as soon as possible, following the instructions in the Call for Papers section of this website. Participation of graduate students is encouraged. Students who present papers at the symposium will receive a waiver of the registration fee, and any student may submit a paper for consideration of one of three Student awards that are sponsored by the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Smith Hanley Associates LLC.
There will be a half day short course titled "Hierarchical modeling for spatially-referenced data with applications to environmental sciences and public health" presented by Professor Sudipto Banerjee, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota on April 24, 2009. Detailed information on the course can be found in the Short Course.
This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the New England Statistics Symposium. The first New England Statistics Symposium was held at the University of Connecticut. We have been continuing the tradition of hosting the Symposium on alternate years while inviting other institutions throughout New England to host it in years in between. For a list of previous host institutions and keynote speakers, click here.
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) Affiliates Annual Meeting will be held in Storrs on April 24, 2009. Please go to the NISS page for the detail.