CALLING ALL YOUNG STATISTICIANS

The International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) is pleased to announce the launch of the 2020 IAOS Young Statisticians Prize
(YSP). This international prize, which is designed to encourage more young statisticians to take an active interest in official statistics, is
awarded for the best paper in the field of official statistics written by a young statistician.
In addition to a monetary prize, the first-place winner will receive travel funds to present his/her paper at the IAOS Conference that will be held
in Livingstone, Zambia, from 19 th - 21 st May 2020.

See details: https://www.iaos-isi.org/index.php/statistics-prize
Download: 2020_YSP_Announcement.pdf, 2020_YSP_Flyer.pdf

The y-BIS 2019, ISBIS (International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics) Young Business and Industrial Statisticians Workshop on Recent Advances in Data Science and Business Analytics, will be held by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Bomonti Campus, Istanbul, Turkey, from September 25 to 28, 2019.

Ozan Kocadagli (Conference Chair).

Conference website: http://ybis2019.msgsu.edu.tr

Event: NZSA Student & Early Career Network Event at The 2017 IASC-ARS/NZSA Joint Statistics Conference
Theme: From Game of Thrones to Gilmore Girls: How Parrot Analytics Uses Data to Find Out What’s Popular Around the Globe.
Date: December 11, 2017
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Place: The Bluestone Room 11 Durham Lane, Auckland
Highlight: Open bar & light dinner provided.
Contact: lisa.hall@fonterra.com

10th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC (IASC-ARS2017)
Date: December 10~14, 2017
Place: The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Website: http://www.iascars2017.com

Session title: YS-ISI Session
Session description: YS-ISI (http://www.ys-isi.org/) is the young statisticians' group in ISI, which was established in 2010. The YS-ISI exists to bring together career-young statisticians around the world and to help support their career development and enjoyment. The YS-ISI Invited Session aims to promote the active participation of early career statisticians who are attending the IASC-ARS 2017. Four young statisticians from Taiwan, Japan and New Zealand are invited. The session will offer opportunities to meet each other, to share and discuss ways to promote scientific and professional collaborations.

Session organizer/chair:
Han-Ming Wu, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, National Taipei University, Taiwan

List of Speakers:
Shih-Hao Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow,  Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Talk Title: Group testing designs with cost considerations and uncertain error rates

Jun Tsuchida, Ph.D. Student, Graduate school of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University, Japan
Talk Title: Canonical covariance analysis for mixed numerical and categorical three-way three-mode data

Ben Stevenson, Lecturer,  Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Talk Title: Estimating animal density from acoustic detection data

Lisa Hall, Research Scientist, Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited, New Zealand
Talk Title: Talk data to me