Please share this announcement with graduate students in your department.
The NISS (National Institute of Statistical Sciences) Graduate Student Network (https://sites.google.com/view/nissgradstudentnetwork) is very excited to announce the first graduate student research conference!
This two-day event will take place on June 12 and 13, 2021, from noon - 5 pm ET and will feature graduate student presentations. In addition to presentations by graduate students, we will also have a social networking hour & two invited speakers (Drs. John Bailer and Regina Nuzzo) will discuss "How to present your research?". Our distinguished speakers with their expertise in communicating statistical ideas to diverse audiences will share their insights in their talks. They will draw on their prior experiences and discuss good practices and tips when presenting to technical and non-technical audiences.
More information on our invited speakers:
John Bailer is a University Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Miami University in Ohio, USA. His work focuses on risk assessment in occupational health, and combining journalism with statistics. He created the podcast Stats+Stories, which "Addresses The Story Behind The Statistics And The Statistics Behind The Stories." It is sponsored by the American Statistical Association and is hosted on National Public Radio podcasts and other podcast locations. In 2021, Bailer and his podcast colleagues received the JBPM Communications Award.
Bailer received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina in 1986. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Society for Risk Analysis, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received several Distinguished Teaching awards at Miami University, and the Founders Award of the American Statistical Association. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Statistical Institute 2013-2021, serving the last two years as president. He has published some 150 peer-reviewed papers and five books.
Dr. Regina Nuzzo is a freelance science writer and professor in Washington, DC. After studying engineering as an undergraduate she earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. Currently, she's teaching statistics in American Sign Language at Gallaudet University, the world's only liberal arts college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Dr. Nuzzo is also a graduate of the Science Communication program at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her science journalism specialties center around data, probability, statistics, and the research process. Her work has appeared in Nature, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Reader's Digest, New Scientist, and Scientific American, among others. Dr. Nuzzo has been invited to speak to a variety of audiences about her work, such as why we just can't understand p-values, how our brain can fool us during data analysis, what happens when people abuse and misuse statistics, and tips and tricks for communicating anything with numbers and statistics.
The agenda for the conference is available at our NISS website https://www.niss.org/events/niss-graduate-student-research-conference.
Registration for this conference is $20 for Graduate Students. All other registrations are $50. Please submit your registration and payment through the event page on our NISS website https://www.niss.org/events/niss-graduate-student-research-conference
This event is Affiliate Award Fund Eligible! Graduate students who are part of NISS-affiliated universities can use their Affiliate Award Funds towards registration, that is, students registering from these universities are eligible for reimbursement after attending the conference. Please contact your NISS liaison (https://www.niss.org/affiliates-list) to learn more about these funds. NISS liaisons, if you have any questions about the reimbursement process through NISS affiliate funds, contact officeadmin@niss.org.
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Esra Kurum
Assistant Professor
University of California-Riverside
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