Dear Colleagues,
This is a reminder about the upcoming webinar this Friday in the
series of "Data Science in Action in Response to the Outbreak of
COVID-19":
+ Speaker: Dean Follmann, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
+ Title: Statistics and Modeling in Response to COVID-19 at NIAID
+ Time: Friday, 06/12/2020, 11 am EDT
+ Password: 2020
+ Link:
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/onstage/g.php?MTID=ef5ed3803c3e9aadb9aebf2b61452c3d9See
https://statds.org/events/webinar_dsa2020/schedule.html for details.
+ Recordings and slides of the past webinars are posted.
+ Registration is optional; those who registered will get two
reminders before each event (which might end up in your spam folder).
The next two webinars in the series are:
+ Friday, 06/19/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Yifan Zhu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center: A statistical transmission model for COVID-19
outbreak, with adjustment of external factors
+ Friday, 06/26/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Kimia Ghobadi, Johns Hopkins
University: The opportunities and challenges of healthcare systems in
the COVID-19 era
The series was initiated by the ASA Section on Statistical Learning
and Data Science and the Journal of Data Science, and co-sponsored by
the ASA Section on Statistical Computing, ASA Section on Statistics in
Epidemiology, ASA Section on Statistical Graphics, National Institute
of Statistical Science, New England Statistical Society, and
Statistical Data Science Lab at UConn.
The special issue on "Data Science in Action in Response to the
Outbreak of COVID-19" of the Journal of Data Science
(http://jds-online.org) is accepting submissions.
Organizing Committee:
Kun Chen, University of Connecticut (
kun.chen@uconn.edu)
Jing Cheng, University of California San Francisco (
jing.cheng@ucsf.edu)
Di Cook, Monash University (
dicook@monash.edu)
Mimi Kim, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (
mimi.kim@einstein.yu.edu)
Jun Yan (Co-Chair), University of Connecticut (
jun.yan@uconn.edu)
Hao Helen Zhang (Co-Chair), University of Arizona (
hzhang@math.arizona.edu)