Dear YS-ISI 2019 participants,

This is Hank, the Chair of the ISI Young Statisticians Committee.
Thank you for willing to join the YS-ISI Workshop 2019.
I would like to inform you a few things below before the workshop:

(1)  Lunch Preference
Please reply me (hmwu@gm.ntpu.edu.tw) your Lunch Preference: (a) have no special preference. (b) vegetarian (c) other types (not sure if the host could provide): __________ 

(2)  "Say something to everybody"
Before the Opening, we will display participants' "say something to everybody" on stage during time period of "(10:00-10:40 (40min): Registration & Coffee/Tea time)". 
Email me your personal photo/picture if want to show it with your words.

(3) Watch  Prof. Louise Ryan's  video 
ACEMS Chief Investigator Louise Ryan talks about her career and has advice for PhD students and early career researchers (ECRs). 
A Conversation with Louise Ryan: https://acems.org.au/conversation-louise-ryan
Prof. Louise Ryan (Keynote speaker) will interact with you guys according to the content of the video.

(4) Fun activities is cancelled
Concerning the traffic situation in the afternoon of 18 August 2019, the session of "14:00-14:30 (30min): Fun activities" is cancelled to shorten the 
Workshop so that all of participants may be able to reach Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on time to attend the Opening Ceremony of ISI WSC 2019.

(5) Workshop Schedule (finalized)
    10:00-10:40 (40min): Registration & Coffee/Tea time
    10:40-10:50 (10min): Opening
    10:50-11:20 (30min): Keynote speech (I)
    11:20-12:20 (60min): Ice-breaking/small group discussion
    12:20-13:30 (70min): Lunch
    13:30-14:00 (30min): Keynote speech (II)
    14:00-14:30 (30min): Meet our special interest groups and outreach committees
    14:30-14:40 (10min): Closing
    14:40-16:00: Back to KLCC
    16:00: Opening Ceremony of the ISI WSC 2019.

(6) YS-related Events in WSC2019
    STS567: Effective Communication: What Every Young Statistician Should Know (Organizer: Tamanna Howlader)
    IPS65: Statistics in Forensic Sciences (Organizer: Tamanna Howlader)
    IPS107: Computational Statistics and Applications (Organizer: Han-Ming Wu, YS-ISI Session)
    IPS134: Early Career Advice for Statisticians in the Computational Sciences, who are Young and not so Young (Organizer: Thomas Yee, YSG-IASC Session)
    IPS201: Recent Advances in Statistical Learning Applications (Organizer: Tahir Ekin, Isbis Y-BIS Session)
    The Women in Statistics Network Meeting (Morning, August 20)
    ISI Young Statisticians Mixer (Lunch Time, August 20) (PLEASE COME!!)
    ISI Committee for Young Statisticians (Lunch Time, August 20) 

Let me know if you have further questions.
I'm looking forward to meeting you all in KL.
Best regards,
Hank.
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Han-Ming Wu (Hank)
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, National Taipei University
E-mail: hmwu@gm.ntpu.edu.tw
Website: http://www.hmwu.idv.tw
Chair of the ISI Young Statisticians Committee
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Forthcoming YS-ISI activities (2019) http://www.ys-isi.org/:
 - 2019 ISI Young Statisticians Workshop (YS-ISI2019), August 18 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 - YS-ISI Invited Papers Sessions, WSC2019, August 18-23 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 - YS-ISI Invited Papers Sessions, IASC-ARS2019, December 2-5 2019, Hong Kong.