FENStatS News
These news are collected from national societies and elsewhere in the world, and are published only after approval.
- The Cyprus Statistical Society cautions against interferences in US federal statisticsOn 30 Apr 2025 the Cyprus Statistical Society moved towards the support of the ISI Advisory Board on Ethics Statement on US Federal Statistics.
- Recording - 4th ERC Funding Opportunities Webinar for StatisticiansOn the tenth day of April 2025, the 4th webinar for statisticians instructing on funding opportunities espoused by the European Research Council was held online, and its recording is available.
- Registration open for European Statistics Awards - Web Intelligence until 22 Apr 2025!Teams of statisticians and data analysts have an opportunity to win a total of €50,000 for different categories of awards for their solutions targeting at web intelligence.
- The 2nd Latin American Conference on Spatio-Temporal Modelling METMA-LATAM II 2025 invites participation.June 2025 will host another conference on spatio-temporal modelling. This time it will be in Colombia under the acronym METMA-LATAM II.
- 4th ERC Information Webinar for Statisticians on Funding OpportunitiesFENStatS announces the 4th ERC Funding Opportunities Webinar for Statisticians
- A conference dedicated to extreme value analysis welcomes registrants!14th international conference on Extreme Value Analysis will take place on June 23-27, 2025 in the USA.
- The call for abstracts and registration for IBS-IR-EMR2025 is now open!The Joint Conference of the Italian and Eastern Mediterranean Regions of the International Biometric Society (IBS-IR-EMR2025) will take place in Italian Salerno on September 16-18, 2025.
- València International Bayesian Summer School is open for registrants!València International Bayesian Summer School (VIBASS 8) will take place on July 7-10, 2025 in València (Spain).
- Registration still open for NTTS 2025 taking place in March 2025New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics 2025 [NTTS 2025] will take in Brussels on 11 to 13 March 2025.
- 'Spatial Statistics 2025: At the Dawn of AI' still welcomes abstract submissions.Spatial Statistics 2025: At the Dawn of AI will take in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, on 15 to 18 July 2025.
- Conferences held by national statistical societies in Europe in the first two quarters of 2024Researchers, experts and anyone interested in the field of probability and statisticss are invited to seven prestigious conferences organized or hosted by Società Italiana di Statistica, Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft, Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Société Française de Statistique.
- FENStatS Ethical Code being adopted in Europe - an example from SlovakiaThe Slovak Statistical and Demographic Society first to endorse the FENStatS Ethical Code for statistical practice in Europe
- Funding Opportunities for Members and Young ResearchersFENStatS announces two funding initiatives to support collaboration among members and young statisticians.
- PhD & PostDoc positions in biostatisticsThe Department of Biostatistics at the EBPI at the University of Zurich announces vacant positions.
- Two open PhD positions in Mathematical Statistics with non-Euclidean dataThe ‘Stein-based goodness-of-fit TEsts for Non-Euclidean Data’ (STENED) project seeks to hire two fully-funded PhD fellows.
- Obituary - Professor Constantin Anghelache PhDProfessor Constantin Anghelache from the Romanian Statistical Society passed away.
- A session by Società Italiana di Statistica at ICSDS 2024Società Italiana di Statistica organizes a session during the 2024 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science in December 2024.
- StatisticALL Festival of Statistics and DemographySocietà Italiana di Statistica organizes StatisticALL Festival of Statistics and Demography.
- Submissions for Popdays 2025The Italian Association for Population Studies (SIS-AISP) invites submissions for the upcoming Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione – PopDays 2025.
- Annual Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society of BelgiumThe 31st Annual Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium (RSSB) will take in November 2024, and Peter Rousseeuw will become an honorary member of the RSSB.
- Another CESS is on the way!The Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders 2024 [CESS 2024] will be devoted to the issues of measuring gross domestic product and hopes to promote further the dialogue between all stakeholders engaged in production of official data on economic performance.
- A vacancy at the ERCEAThe European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA) seeks to attract excellent, highly motivated staff with the right qualifications and expertise.
- A prestigious Eurostat conference is taking place in March 2025.New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics 2025 [NTTS 2025] will take in Brussels on 11 to 13 March 2025.
- Call for papers: Popdays 2025The Italian Association for Population Studies (SIS-AISP) invites submissions for the upcoming Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione – Popdays 2025.
- A significant recognition of achievements to Maria Dolores Ugarte MartínezCongratulations to FENStatS President on a medal for her contributions to statistics
- Applied Statistics 2024The Statistical Society of Slovenia is pleased to announce the 20th Applied Statistics Conference.
- Announcing The David Cox Medal for StatisticsThe Royal Statistical Society is pleased to introduce a new prize in statistics.
- Italian Festival of Statistics and DemographySocietà Italiana di Statistica organizes Festival of Statistics and Demography.
- ECAS-ENBIS Course: Transfer Learning. Theory, methods & applicationsThe half-day course is part of the ENBIS-24 Leuven conference.
- European Day - 9 May 2024To-day, 9 May 2024, is European Day.
- EuADS Symposium + EuADS Summer School 2024The European Association for Data Science (EuADS) invites you to the Symposium (free hybrid event) and Summer School on Generative AI.
- FENStatS webinar on ethicsFENStatS is currently discussing adoption of ethical principles for statistical practice. Here you will find support for the webinar that Walder Radermacher gave on this topic.
- First FENStatS newsletter is out!FENStatS has launched its newsletter project to disseminate information from national statistical societies. Here you have the first issue for your perusal!
- Call for Papers: Special volume: Data for evidence-based policymaking @ SpringerSubmissions for Data for evidence-based policymaking to be published in Springer are invited.
- 5th International Statistical Conference in Croatian OpatijaYou are invited to a conference organized by the Croatian Statistical Association in April 2024.
- 5th Cypriot Statistics ConferenceYou are invited to the one-day 5th Cypriot Statistics Conference organized by the Cyprus Statistical Society in June 2024.
- Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 69 - Applications of Statistical MethodsYou are invited to the plenary meeting of ISO/TC 69 in June 2024.
- Junior application for European Statistical Accreditation is now openFENStatS launches the junior version of European Statistical Accreditation
- 33rd Conference of the Section of Classification and Data AnalysisYou are invited to a conference organized by the Polish Statistical Association in June 2024.
- Conferences by Società Italiana di Statistica in 2024You are invited to four events organized by Società Italiana di Statistica: SIS-SDS (April 2024), SIS 2024 (June 2024), MBC2 2024 (August 2024).
- RSS International Conference 2024 - the UK’s annual showcase for statistics & data scienceYou are invited to a conference organized by the Royal Statistical Soociety in September 2024.
- Two events held by the Royal Statistical Society of BelgiumYou are invited to two events organized by the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium in 2024.
- 4th Spanish Young Statisticians and Operational Researchers MeetingYou are invited to a meeting of young statisticians and operational researchers in June 2024 in Spain.
- Can you inspire the next generation of statisticians? William Guy Lectureship 2024/25 open for applicantsThe Royal Statistical Society opens applications for William Guy Lectureships 2024/2025
- ISLP Poster Competition 2024-2025Registrations are open to participate in the International Poster Competition 2024-2025.
- Improving Accessibility, Harmonisation and Data Linkage in EuropeYou are invited on an online meeting `Improving Accessibility, Harmonisation and Data Linkage in Europe` that will take place on 15 Feb 2024.
- GEOMED 2024The GEOMED 2024 conference may be for you an interesting venue to discuss issues in spatial epidemiology, and you are cordially invited to participate in it.
- Trust me, I'm a StatisticianThe theme for the 2024 World Economic Forum is “Rebuilding Trust”, focusing on “the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability”. One way to gain and promote trust is through the accreditation standard launched by FENStatS.
- Webinar Series Continues to Democratize Statistical KnowledgeYou are invited to free webinars with a full support of resources aimed at democratizing statistical knowledge.
- MBC2 2024You are invited to the 7th international workshop on [Models and Learning for Clustering and Classification] and a related tutorial on [Contrastive Learning Approaches for Data Classification: Methods, Applications and Software].
- Blogposts by YoungStatsYou are invited to study blogposts of young researchers in the field of statistics.
- Innovation session @ European Statistical Day 2023 in MadridJoin the `Statistical innovation in the European Statistical System` session!
- European Statistics Day 2023 Celebrate European Statistics Day 2023 with us!
- Stochastic Fluid Dynamics webinarYou are invited to a presentation of recent works by four young researchers on stochastic fluid dynamics equations.
- Swedish Statistical Society WebinarJoin the annual autumn conference on Tuesday, October 24th, featuring the theme Technology and Ethics. Connect with four leading experts in the field and engage in discussions about the impact of this topic.
- FENStatS session @ IDWSDS2023FENStatS is organizing its own session 'FENStatS women in action' during the conference IDWSDS2023 (International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science). The session will take place on Tuesday, 10 October 2023, 18:30-20:00 (UTC).
- FENStatS New Executive CommitteeNew representatives managing FENStatS at the Executive Commitee.
- IDWSDS2023: International Day of Women in Statistics and Data ScienceThe Caucus for Women in Statistics hosts the International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science and calls for organising invited sessions, sponsorship and participation.
- Call for Papers: Special Issue on Digital TwinsUpcoming “Digital Twins” Special Issue of the journal Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (ASMBI)
- ERC Information Webinar for Statisticians on Funding OpportunitiesFor the second year, FENStatS, jointly with the European Research Council (ERC), organises the ERC Information Webinar for Statisticians on Funding Opportunities on May 30th, 2023, at 11:30 (CEST).
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- Call for papers: Statistics, Politics and PolicyThe journal Statistics, Politics and Policy calls for papers for its special issue Political Demography.
- Call for proposals: FENStatS Executive CommitteeThe current Executive Committee terminates the mandate in October 2023, and an election for a new board will occur during the 2023 General Assembly.
- Call for Speakers: European Statistical Forum (ESForum)The central theme is “Statistical Methodology in Precision Medicine and the role of Artificial Intelligence”.
- Job Opportunity: Lecturer in Applied StatisticsCurtin University seeks a Lecturer in Applied Statistics - Perth, Western Australia.
- RSS Honorary Fellowship for 2023The Royal Statistics Society (RSS) awarded Walter Radermacher the 2023 Honorary Fellowship.
- PROMISE: 2nd Int’l Workshop on Process Mining for Complex Information Systems and BeyondCall for papers
- ESGI 173: Problem-Solving with IndustryThe European Study Group with Industry (ESGI 173) will take place on 19-23 June at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and is open for registration.
- SEIO 2023: XL National Congress of Statistics and Operations Research and the XIV Conference on Public StatisticsThe Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO) is pleased to announce its XL National Congress of Statistics and Operations Research and the XIV Conference on Public Statistics.
- ENBIS-23 Annual Conference in ValenciaThe European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) calls for papers and discloses the ENBIS Knowledge Fund 2023.
- 100 year jubilee of the Finnish Statistical Society The Society celebrated its honourable centenary in 2020. The coronavirus epidemic prevented the celebration of the anniversary in 2020 and after. We are celebrating the wonderful history of the Society at the 100+ anniversary celebration in Helsinki on June 8-9, 2023.
- ECAS-SFdS course - Random Forests: basics, extensions and applicationsThe next ECAS-SFdS school will take place in Fréjus, French Riviera, from October 8 to 13, 2023.