<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: International Statistical Institute <<a href="mailto:ISI@cbs.nl">ISI@cbs.nl</a>> Date: 2015-08-20 8:09 GMT-03:00 Subject: [ISI] News Items - August 2015 To: <a href="mailto:ISI@listserv.cbs.nl">ISI@listserv.cbs.nl</a> <div lang="NL" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left:29.6pt;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="281" valign="top" style="width:210.6pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> </td> <td width="138" valign="top" style="width:103.75pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"></td> <td width="200" valign="top" style="width:150.05pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> <img width="79" height="70" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D0DA93.6CF6B6A0" alt="Beschrijving: Isi-blue1"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> Dear Members, You are invited to visit the <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/" target="_blank">ISI website</a> to read news on the following: </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> ISI President’s Message August 2015 New ISI President Pedro Silva looks back at the successful WSC in Rio de Janeiro and tells about his plans for the coming period. <a href="http://isi.cbs.nl/PresidentsMessages/PresidentsMessage-Aug-2015.pdf" title="New ISI President Pedro Silva looks back at the successful WSC in Rio de Janeiro and tells about his plans for the coming period." target="_blank">More>></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> ISI Director’s Message August 2015 ISI Director summarizes the successes of the 60th ISI WSC in Rio de Janeiro and looks ahead to the preparations of the next WSC in Marrakech, Morocco. <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%20Director%27s%20message%20August.pdf" title="ISI Director summarizes the successes of the 60th ISI WSC in Rio de Janeiro and looks ahead to the preparations of the next WSC in Marrakech, Morocco." target="_blank">More>></a> Report on the 60th ISI WSC in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Read about the main events of the WSC including some facts and figures. <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/WSC/2015/Report%20of%20the%2060th%20ISI%20World%20Statistics%20Congress.pdf" target="_blank">More>></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> 61st ISI WSC 2017 in Marrakech, Morocco The 61st ISI WSC will take place in <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/WSC/2017/ISI%20Morocco%20Presentation.pdf" target="_blank">Marrakech, Morocco</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> 62nd ISI WSC 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The ISI accepted the <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/WSC/2019/WSC%202019%20Bid.pdf" target="_blank">bid</a> of the Department of Statistics Malaysia, Bank Negara and Malaysia Institute of Statistics to hold the 62nd ISI WSC in Kuala Lumpur. </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> 60th ISI WSC 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/WSC/2015/Awards%20Ceremony%202015.pdf" target="_blank">Awards Ceremony Presentation</a></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.isi2015.org/images/isi2015/boletim2_IBGE_final.pdf" title="Information Bulletin 2" target="_blank">Information Bulletin 2</a></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.isi2015.org/index.php/isi2015/daily-news" title="Read the Daily News in order to keep abreast of the events at the WSC." target="_blank">Daily News and Snapshots</a> </li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> ISI Membership Elections 2015 Congratulations and warm welcome to <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%20ISI_Memb%20Elect%202015-2_News%20Item.pdf" title="Congratulations and warm welcome to the 9 new members elected in the second round of this year’s ISI membership elections!" target="_blank">the 9 new members</a> elected in the second round of this year’s ISI membership elections! </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> International Statistical Review (ISR) <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal">August 2015 issue: The ISR is the journal of the International Statistical Institute that serves as its conduit for disseminating accessible reviews and assessments of key statistical concepts and important emerging methodologies to members of the Institute, and more generally to all professional statisticians. The articles in the August issue reflect this aim, and should be of interest to all readers of this newsletter. <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%20ISR%20%20August.pdf" title="August 2015 issue: The ISR is the journal of the International Statistical Institute that serves as its conduit for disseminating accessible reviews and assessments of key statistical concepts and important emerging methodologies to members of the Instit" target="_blank">More>></a></li><li class="MsoNormal">ISR homepage now contains a special feature link for <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291751-5823/homepage/interview_papers.htm" target="_blank">Interview Papers</a> so that readers can easily find which interviews have been published in the journal.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Kudos service is now free for all ISR authors! <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%20Kudos%20factsheet%20-%20International%20Statistical%20Review.pdf" title="Kudos service now free for all ISR authors!" target="_blank">More>></a></li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> IAOS News August 2015 <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal">2016 Young Statistician Prize Competition: The YSP is open to all eligible young official statisticians. <a href="http://isi.cbs.nl/iaos/YoungStatisticiansCompetition.htm" title="2016 Young Statistician Prize Competition: The YSP is open to all eligible young official statisticians." target="_blank">More>></a></li><li class="MsoNormal">New IAOS Executive elected at the 2015 General Assembly. <a href="http://isi.cbs.nl/iaos/aboutus/IncomingEC.htm" title="New IAOS Executive elected at the 2015 General Assembly. " target="_blank">More>></a></li><li class="MsoNormal">SJIAOS June 2015 issue: This issue includes articles on Big Data, an interview with Shigeru Kawasaki, Past President of the IAOS, and a wide range of articles based on papers presented at the IAOS14 conference. <a href="http://content.iospress.com/journals/statistical-journal-of-the-iaos/31/2" target="_blank">More>></a></li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> IASC News August 2015 <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal">Patrick Groenen is the new President of IASC for the period 2015-2017. <a href="http://www.iasc-isi.org/announcements/292" target="_blank">More>></a></li><li class="MsoNormal">IASC participation in the 60th ISI World Statistics Congress in Rio de Janeiro. <a href="http://www.iasc-isi.org/announcements/294" target="_blank">More>></a></li><li class="MsoNormal">Seungwon Lee receives the IASC Data Analysis Competition award. <a href="http://www.iasc-isi.org/announcements/295" target="_blank">More>></a></li><li class="MsoNormal">Successful IASC-CSDA session at the World Statistics Congress in Rio de Janeiro. <a href="http://www.iasc-isi.org/announcements/293" target="_blank">More>></a></li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> IASE News August 2015 <ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal">IASE 2015 Satellite Conference at UNIRIO in Rio de Janeiro, "Advances in statistics education: developments, experiences, and assessments", proved to be a success. <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%20IASE%20News%20Aug.pdf" title="IASE 2015 Satellite Conference at UNIRIO in Rio de Janeiro, "Advances in statistics education: developments, experiences, and assessments", proved to be a success." target="_blank">More>></a></li><li class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%20IASE%20News%20Aug.pdf" title="Future IASE-related events" target="_blank">Future IASE-related events</a></li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> SCORUS News August 2015 SCORUS held a successful conference in Brussels in June and organized two sessions for ISI2015, the 60th World Statistics Congress held in Rio de Janeiro in July. <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%20SCORUS%20News%20Aug.pdf" title="SCORUS held a successful conference in Brussels in June and organized two sessions for ISI2015, the 60th World Statistics Congress held in Rio de Janeiro in July." target="_blank"> More>></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> International Symposium in Statistics (ISS) 2015 The International Symposium in Statistics (ISS) took place from 6 -8 July 2015 and was hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University, Canada. The meeting covered five specialized research themes: multi-dimensional data analysis in continuous setup, multivariate analysis for longitudinal categorical data, time series with financial and environmental applications, spatial-temporal data analysis. The ISI co-sponsored the event. <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%20ISS%20symposium.pdf" title="The International Symposium in Statistics (ISS) took place from 6 -8 July 2015 and was hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University, Canada. The meeting covered five specialized research themes: multi-dimensional data ana" target="_blank"> More>></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> News from the Ethiopian Statistical Association The association held its 24th Annual Conference on 27 June 2015 under the theme “Harnessing the Power of Data for Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia”. The event was attended by members of the association and guests from various governmental and non-governmental organizations. <a href="http://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2015%2024th%20ann%20conf%20proceeding.pdf" title="The association held its 24th Annual Conference on 27 June 2015 under the theme “Harnessing the Power of Data for Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia”. The event was attended by members of the association and guests from various governmental and non-governmenta" target="_blank">More>></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:464.4pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt"> If you are having trouble viewing this e-mail, please click <a href="http://isi.cbs.nl/2015/Newsletter/NewsletterAugust2015.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> to open the online version. If you have any news, suggestions or wishes, please contact <a href="mailto:isipo.news@gmail.com" target="_blank">isipo.news@gmail.com</a>. You may also e-mail us information you would like to share with others. With my best regards, Ada van Krimpen ISI Director </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> <div> </div>-- <div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial;white-space:normal">Luis B. 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