2025 Traveling Courses
SCHEDULE (TBD)
The Council of Chapters Traveling Courses provide low-cost courses for ASA Chapters. In 2025, there is the option of the courses being presented virtually or in-person. The chapter, speaker(s), and Chair of the Traveling Course committee will decide the best option for each course presentation. The Council of Chapters sponsors this activity by paying speaker honoraria and, in the case of an in-person presentation, speaker travel to and from the host site. The Chapter is in charge of advertising and registration. If the course is presented virtually, the Chapter will host the course and provide the platform (Zoom, WebEx, Microsoft Teams, etc.). If it is to be an in-person course, the Chapter is responsible for onsite presenter travel expenses (hotel, meals, ground transportation) and course costs (production of course handouts, catering, room rental, AV equipment rental, etc),
Regardless of the presentation format, the greater of $25 for each attendee or $500 is paid back to the Council of Chapters.
The Traveling Course committee, made up of at least one member of each of the six Chapter Districts and ASA staff liaison, chooses the local Chapters and works with the speakers and Chapters to select dates for each course. The courses are often awarded to smaller Chapters and Chapters that have not had a traveling course recently.
The 2025 course offerings cover the entire year. To allow as much flexibility in planning the best use of the instructors' time, the deadline for applications is January 22, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. Applications may be submitted throughout 2024 but courses will be subject to speaker availability and Travel Course funding.
2025 Traveling Course Offerings (click on title for course description):
Instructors: Richard C. Zink, PhD, Principal Statistical Fellow, JMP Statistical Discovery LLC; Rebecca Lyzinski, MS, Senior Software Developer, JMP Statistical Discovery LLC
Course Length: Full Day with lecture and hands on practice with visualizations in JMP
(approximately 1.5-2.0 hours). Can be adapted to half-day with lecture only.
Instructor: Joyce Robbins, Columbia University
Course Length: Full Day
Instructors: Gregory Hunt, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of William & Mary Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
Course Length: Half Day
Instructor: David J. Corliss, Principal Data Scientist, Grafham Analytics
Course Length: Full Day
Instructors: Hemant Ishwaran, Professor, Biostatistics, University of Miami; Min Lu, Research Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, University of Miami
Course Length: Half Day
Instructor: Anna Yu Lee, Founder, Concierge Mental Health & Associates
Course Length: Full Day
Instructors: Jing Xu, Senior Director, Takeda; Bingxia Wang, Senior Director, Takeda; Qingxia (Cindy) Chen, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
Course Length: Full Day
DEADLINE: January 22, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time
Traveling Course Application Closed for 2025.
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