Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 4/25 New England Statistics Symposium

    The 29th New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) at Storrs on April 24-25

     The Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut is proud to host the Twenty-Ninth New England Statistics Symposium on Friday and Saturday, April 24-25, 2015. 

    Yaakov Bar­Shalom of University of Connecticut and Adrian E. Raftery of University of Washington will deliver keynote presentations, and there will be invited talks and poster sessions. The Symposium will be held in the AUST building at the University of Connecticut on April 25, 2015. There will be three full-day short courses, entitled “Bayesian Biostatistics: Design of Clinical Trials and Subgroup Analysis” presented by Professor Peter Müller of University of Texas Austin, “Modern Multivariate Statistical Learning: Methods and Applications” presented by Professors Kun Chen and Jun Yan of University of Connecticut, and “Boosting R Skills and Automating Statistical Reports” presented by Dr. Yihui Xie of RStudio, Inc., in the Student Union on Friday, April 24, 2015 (8:30am-5:00pm). 


    Registration is still open.  Please visit merlot.stat.uconn.edu/ness15 to register the 2015 NESS and sign up for the short courses.

     

    For more information, contact: Tracy Burke at tracy.burke@uconn.edu