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Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, is seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent scientific credentials in the general scientific area of the project (data science in medicine, biostatistics, AI in medicine), at the R3 or R4 level, who is willing to help build a robust and leading group in data science for health research. The successful candidate is expected to shape this new research direction in interaction with other researchers of the School of Medicine, participate in defining new teaching needs in the areas of the project, and lead an inter-disciplinary team in research and acquisition of new funding.

For details of the position and how to apply, please see:

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/611742​
Contact details: [email protected]

Closing date: April 15, 2021

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New post added at IASC-ISI - IASC News December 2020:

News from the IASC Executive Committee (October - December 2020)
Title: Summary of news from the IASC Executive Committee

Summary: The IASC Executive Committee would like to thank its sponsors and donors in 2020

The entire IASC Executive Committee (EC) would like to thank the first sponsor of the Journal of Statistics, Data Science, and Visualisation (JDSSV) who generously offered to cover the running expensed for JDSSV for the next few years (see a more detailed news entry elsewhere in this issue). At this time, the sponsor prefers to remain anonymous.

IASC also received donations in the amount of 295 Euro for its IASC Young Researcher Fund and 25 Euro for its IASC Support Fund from a total of six different donors in 2020.The IASC EC will discuss in early 2021 how to use these donations for deserving candidates in 2021. We would like to thank these six donors as well.

Both options for donations will also be available again in 2021. If your own financial situation allows you to make some additional donations to these two IASC funds when you renew your IASC membership for 2021, we would really appreciate it.


Call for papers: Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation
Title: Call for papers: Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation

Summary: We welcome submissions for the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation.

We welcome submissions for the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation. JDSSV has been launched this year as an international refereed journal which creates a forum to present recent progress and ideas in the different disciplines of data science, statistics, and visualisation. Contributions to data science, statistics, and visualisation are welcome and, in particular, papers which link and integrate these subject areas. The first issues of the journal will appear in 2021.

Articles should be oriented towards a wide scientific audience, and can cover topics such as machine learning and statistical learning, the visualisation and verbalisation of data, visual analytics, big data infrastructures and analytics, interactive learning, and advanced computing. Scientific contributions should be of a high standard.

The journal explicitly welcomes contributions that include software with the aim of reproducibility of the results and application of the proposed methodology to other data by the reader. It is expected that data used in a paper are provided.

Initial submissions only require a pdf version of the manuscript with accompanying software code and necessary supplementary material. Manuscripts can be submitted online at https://jdssv.org.

Supported by

The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC, owner)
International Statistical Institute (ISI)

Editorial Board

Patrick J.F. Groenen (Editor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Stefan van Aelst (Editor, KU Leuven, Belgium)
Ann Maharaj (Copy Editor, Monash University, Australia)
Alexandre Francisco (Web Editor, Técnico Lisboa, Portugal)

Advisory Board

Jan de Leeuw (UCLA, USA)
David Hand (Imperial College, UK)
Trevor Hastie (Stanford University, USA)
Peter Rousseeuw (KU Leuven, Belgium)


Journal of Statistics, Data Science, and Visualisation receives sponsoring
Title: Journal of Statistics, Data Science, and Visualisation receives sponsoring

Summary: Financial support guarantees that JDSSV is completely open access without any costs for the readers nor the authors

The Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation (JDSSV) is pleased to announce that it has found a financial sponsor to cover its publication costs.

This financial support has also made it possible to appoint a managing editor who will take care of the production process.The managing editor will check and finetune all accepted papers so that they meet the style requirements and will also check software code for reproducibility of the published results.

Thanks to this financial support, IASC can guarantee that JDSSV is a completely open access journal without any costs for the readers nor the authors.


Report of the First IASC-LARS Webinar on Computational Statistics and Data Science
Title: Successful IASC-LARS Webinar on Computational Statistics and Data Science

Summary: The Latin American Regional Section of the IASC held a first and successful Webinar on Statistical Inference in Markov Processes. The course was attended by 71 students and 24 countries.

The Latin American Regional Section of the IASC, the IASC-LARS School on Computational Statistics and Data Science, the IASC and the ISI held a first and successful IASC-LARS Webinar on Computational Statistics and Data Science. The webinar course “Statistical Inference in Markov Processes” was team-taught by Professors Verónica González-López and Jesús E. García from University of Campinas, Brazil, from November 23-26, 2020. Thank you very much Verónica, Jesús, and collaborators Márcio Lanfredi-Viola and Mariela Fernández, for a remarkable course, highly informative, and with many useful concepts and interesting applications

This is the first webinar given by the Latin American Regional Section of the IASC. The course was attended by 71 students, 50 of whom attended 2 or more days. Participants came from 24 countries, from Latin America –Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay—and also from countries as far as away as Algeria, Austria, Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and USA. This is the wonderful magic of communications these days. Most of the students were undergraduate, master and PhD students (64%), also attending academics and researchers (26%), and professionals coming from government institutions and private industry. Although we consider that is a small number, 29% of the students were female, we hope to increase this number in the future.

This is a contribution of Latin American Scientific Community to other countries and communities. The International Organizing Committee, Luis Firinguetti-Limone IASC Webinar Coordinator & Webinar Host (Chile), David Muñoz-Negron IASC-LARS Chairperson (Mexico), Alba Martínez-Ruiz IASC-LARS Scientific Secretary (Chile) are very grateful for the support given by Katie Junasova, ISI Junior Webmaster and GoToWebinar master, the International Association for Statistical Computing, the International Statistical Institute, the World Bank and the Statistical Capacity Building Program. The webinar is available at https://www.isi-web.org/webinars.

The IASC-LARS School aims (1) to spread the knowledge base and advances in Statistical Computing in Latin American and the world, (2) to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of the ongoing research in computational statistics, (3) to provide an overall perspective of the application of computational statistics in data science problems, (4) to present applications where computational statistics have been crucial to solve problems in real-life applications, and (5) to increase the number of researchers and practitioners in computational statistics and data science.




Forthcoming Event: New Virtual Format for LACSC 2021 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing
Title: New Virtual Format for LACSC 2021 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing

Summary: The 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing LACSC 2021 will be held fully online from April 19 to 21, 2021. Deadline to submit papers January 11, 2021.

The 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing LACSC 2021 will be held fully online via Whova April 19 to April 21, 2021. This international conference is jointly organized by the Department of Statistics and the Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering of the Instituto Autónomo de México (ITAM), the Latin American Regional Section of the International Association for Statistical Computing (LARS-IASC) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI). The theme of this year is “Statistical Computing for Intelligent Decision Making” and the Keynote Speakers,

Wendy L. Martínez, Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA
Daniel Russo, Columbia University, USA
Enrique Sucar, Inst. de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, México
Renato Assunção, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Antonietta Mira, Università della
Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

LACSC 2021 invites to submit papers, contributed paper sessions, and invited paper sessions before January 11, 2021. The call of papers and all the information is available at http://lacsc2021.itam.mx

The aim of LACSC is to foster the progress of the theory, methods and practice of statistical computing in Latin America, and to become the main meeting point of the statistical computing scientific community in LA. This year, the call of papers of the conference gives an account of the interest of academics, scientists and professionals in methodological aspects of statistical computing and relevant applications for the Latin American community.

For IASC-LARS students, the IASC will provide (a) 10 (or more) scholarships – 100% waiver in registration fee for people living in developing countries, (b) 5 (or more) scholarship – 50% waiver in registration fee for people living in developing countries. Please, find the list of low income countries at https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/low-income and the list of lower middle income countries at https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/lower-middle-income). To apply for these scholarships, the candidates must,

Be a member of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC). More information on how to become a member can be found here: http://iasc-isi.org/become-a-member/
At the time of the application and of the events be living and working/studying in a developing country.

All participants are expected to adhere to the ISI Community Principles and Conduct Policy (https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/policies/community-conduct).

Before to attend the conference, please visit the webpage https://whova.com/resources/how-to-guide/user-tutorial/. For more information, you can also visit the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWO0ToUqApkJ0W6-PszihpQ.


Forthcoming Event: New Virtual Format for 3rd LARS-IASC School on Computational Statistics and Data Science
Title: New Virtual Format for the 3rd IASC-LARS School on Computational Statistics and Data Science

Summary: The Third IASC-LARS School on Computational Statistics and Data Science will be held fully online from April 17 to 18, 2021.

The Third LARS-IASC School on Computational Statistics and Data Science will be held fully online via Whova from April 17 to April 18, 2021. This is a satellite event of the 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing, LACSC 2021, jointly organized by the Instituto Autónomo de México (ITAM), the Latin American Regional Section of the International Association for Statistical Computing (LARS-IASC) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI). This year the school theme is Stochastic Simulation and Reinforcement Learning (http://lacsc2021.itam.mx) and the instructors,

Enrique Sucar, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, México, “Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Applications”
David Muñoz-Negrón, Instituto Tecnológico de México (ITAM), “Stochastic Simulation: Output Analysis and Applications”
Eduardo F. Morales, Inst. Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, México, “Reinforcement Learning”



For IASC-LARS students, the IASC will provide (a) 10 (or more) scholarships – 100% waiver in registration fee for people living in developing countries, (b) 5 (or more) scholarship – 50% waiver in registration fee for people living in developing countries. Please, find the list of low income countries at https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/low-income and the list of lower middle income countries at https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/lower-middle-income). To apply for these scholarships, the candidates must,

Be a member of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC). More information on how to become a member can be found here: http://iasc-isi.org/become-a-member/
At the time of the application and of the events be living and working/studying in a developing country.

Data corresponds to 57 registration forms.



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IASC News October 2020


New ISI-Elected Members from IASC
Summary:

The IASC-ISI Nomination Committee congratulates four new ISI elected members from IASC in September.

Text:

The IASC-ISI Nomination Committee is glad to announce that IASC members

Valentin Todorov (Austria), Antonio D'Ambrosio (Italy), Mika Sato-Ilic (Japan), Eufrasio de Andrade Lima Neto (Brazil) have been nominated ISI elected members in the early of September 2020 as a result of the third ISI election round.

Our congratulations on reaching this membership status

to all of them. To know the benefits to be an ISI elected member,

please look at https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/membership/benefits


Call for Short Courses – ISI WSC 2021
The ISI Short Course Committee for ISI WSC 2021 (SCC) is inviting members of the ISI and its Associations to submit proposals to deliver online short courses.

The SCC is developing an online short course programme to be delivered over the summer months of June and July 2021 surrounding the 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC) . The short courses will be scheduled in a 3 hour session each day at a time chosen to accommodate learners in many time zones. A short course can be scheduled for 1 day (3 hours total), 2 days (6 hours total) or 3 days (9 hours total).

The proposals for short courses received from members and other sources will be reviewed by the SCC who will recommend a proposed short course programme to be approved by the ISI Executive Committee. The scheduling and management of the delivery of the selected short courses will be arranged through the ISI Permanent Office.

The short courses should meet the needs of the Associations and Special Interest Groups and in particular, the needs of Young Statisticians, Continuing Professional Development and Statistical Capacity Building.

Up to two instructors per course will be reimbursed for the WSC registration. It is hoped that instructors will view this activity as a service to the international statistical community and a contribution to professional development and statistical capacity building for ISI members and the larger community.

Please complete the form and submit your proposal by 31 October 2020.


Forthcoming Event: IASC-LARS Webinar on Computational Statistics and Data Science
SUMMARY:

The Latin American Regional Section of the IASC is pleased to invite postgraduate and undergraduate students to attend the Webinar Course “Statistical Inference in Markov Processes”, November 23-26, deadline to apply is October 20.

TEXT:

The Latin American Regional Section of the IASC, the IASC-LARS School on Computational Statistics and Data Science, the IASC and the ISI are pleased to invite postgraduate and undergraduate students to attend the IASC-LARS Webinar Course “Statistical Inference in Markov Processes”. The course will be team-taught by Professors Verónica González-López and Jesús E. García from University of Campinas, Brazil.

The course will be held virtually using the platform GoToWebinar from November 23-26, 2020. The deadline for early registration is October 20, 2020. To attend this virtual course, please complete the IASC-LARS Webinar Registration Form and sent it to [email protected]. All information is available at https://iasc-isi.org/.


Virtual 63rd ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 Statistics and Data Science for a Better World
SUMMARY

The 63rd ISI WSC 2021 will be held 11-16 July as a virtual conference. Please submit your IPS proposal before 15 November 2020.

TEXT

Invitation to Propose Invited Sessions for WSC 2021

Proposals due: 15 November 2020

The 63rd ISI WSC 2021 will be held 11-16 July as a virtual conference. The WSC theme “Statistics and Data Science for a Better World” highlights the developments and contributions of statistics and data science in various domains of application that impact all aspects of life. The Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee (SPC), Nalini Ravishanker, invites the statistical community to submit proposals for Invited Paper Sessions (IPS). Please use the Submission System.

The 63rd ISI WSC 2021 will host talks and presentations on a wide variety of topics, with the overall goal of presenting a balanced programme that provides a sense of the current state and future direction of statistics, data science and their applications. The programme will span sectors of practice including academia, business, industry, government and official statistics along with the breadth of ISI and Associations affiliated with ISI. Topics include but are not limited to official statistics, survey statistics, environmental statistics, business and industrial applications of statistics, mathematical statistics, probability, statistics and data science education, statistical literacy and statistical computing and data visualization.

Accepted Invited Sessions will be held either live-streamed or pre-recorded, details will be given later. The pre-recorded sessions will have a time to have live interactions with attendees. The SPC will determine which IPS will be offered in which modality, but all submissions should be willing to do either.

Live-streamed

Real-time (synchronous) sessions will be scheduled each day. This time block is necessarily limited, given the desire to reach out to all time zones. It will last two and a half hours from 14:00 to 16:30 Central European Summer Time. The relevant times are:

Country
Start
End

West Coast USA
05:00
07:30

The Netherlands
14:00
16:30

Japan
21:00
23:30

Australia (Sydney)
22:00
00:30

New Zealand
00:00
02:30

Pre-recorded

Asynchronous, pre-recorded sessions will be released each day during the conference. Opportunities to interact with presenters either live or via chat will be available.

Invited Paper Sessions

IPS proposals must meet the following requirements and include the following information:

Session Title - description
Connection to ISI, Associations or Committees
Organiser – name, affiliation, contact information
Session Chair – name, affiliation, contact information
For each speaker,

Name, affiliation, contact information
Title of talk (if appropriate – not needed for panel)
Abstract

The best proposals will include participants that reflect the diversity of ISI including age, gender and country/region. Strong proposals will have speakers confirming their willingness to participate should the programme be accepted. Note that speakers can only speak in one session.

When submitting a proposal, you should indicate to which of the ISI Associations your session is related:

If you specify more than one Association, choose a primary one and your proposal will be first reviewed by that Association under the guidance of its representative on theSPC.
If you think that your proposal does not relate to any ISI Association, you may choose ISI as the primaryassociation.
Proposals will be reviewed by the SPC on a competitivebasis.

Just a quick reminder: each proposal should include a brief description and justification for the proposed session and a list of presenters and discussants who have agreed to participate. The selection criteria will take into account scientific quality, impact, and overall diversity.

IPS Selection Criteria

The SPC will select IPS to ensure that the WSC programme:

is interesting, of high quality, with sessions that emphasize innovative ideas, approaches and/or applications to problems of importance;
reflects a balance of Organisers / Presenters / Discussants from around the world and a diversity of participants with respect to age, gender and statistical interests.

Invited Papers historically have been and will continue to be a key feature of a successful WSC. We look forward to receiving your proposals!

Please read the Guidelines for Session Organisers before submitting your proposal.
Please submit your IPS proposal before 15 November 2020.

General enquiries about the Scientific Programme should be directed to Nalini Ravishanker at [email protected].

John Bailer
International Statistical Institute President (ISI)
Nalini Ravishanker
Scientific Programme Committee Chair (SPC)




Forthcoming Event: LACSC 2021 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing
SUMMARY

The 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing LACSC 2021 will be held in Ciudad de México, México, from April 19 to 21, 2021. LACSC 2021 invites to submit papers before January 11, 2021.

TEXT

The 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing LACSC 2021 will be held in Ciudad de México, México, from April 19 to April 21, 2021. This international conference is jointly organized by the Department of Statistics and the Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering of the Instituto Autónomo de México (ITAM), the Latin American Regional Section of the International Association for Statistical Computing (LARS-IASC) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI). The theme of this year is “Statistical Computing for Intelligent Decision Making” and the Keynote Speakers,

Wendy L. Martínez, Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA
Daniel Russo, Columbia University, USA
Enrique Sucar, Inst. Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptima y Electrónica, México
Renato Assunção, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Antonietta Mira, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

LACSC 2021 invites to submit papers, contributed paper sessions and invited paper sessions before January 11, 2021. The call of papers and all the information is available at http://lacsc2020.itam.mx

The aim of LACSC is to foster the progress of the theory, methods and practice of statistical computing in Latin America, and to become the main meeting point of the statistical computing scientific community in LA. This year, the call of papers of the conference gives an account of the interest of academics, scientists and professionals in methodological aspects of statistical computing and relevant applications for the Latin American community.

You cannot miss LACSC 2021! The Local Organizing Committee is also organizing an interesting social program. Mexico City is the capital of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos (official name of the country). Originally this city was built on an islet where some natives found an eagle devouring a snake and was called Tenochtitlan. Chinampas for agriculture were built around it and became the capital of the Aztec Empire. With the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521, Mexico City fell under its dominance and became the center of the economic activity of the power of New Spain. Its outstanding colonial architecture earned it recognition as the City of Palaces. Currently, Mexico City stands in a valley surrounded by volcanoes, proud of its heritage, the product of the fusion of two cultures. It is the largest and most populous city in Latin America and one of the most dynamic capitals in the world; It has a large number of museums, theaters, concert halls, archaeological ruins, theme parks and recreational parks. Also, it offers a great gastronomic variety typical of all regions of Mexico and the world. Please see more information on the following links: https://www.visitmexico.com/en/ and https://www.lonelyplanet.com/mexico/mexico-city


(SHORT SUMMARY) 3rd LARS-IASC School on Computational Statistics and Data Science
The Third LARS-IASC School on Computational Statistics and Data Science will be held in Ciudad de México from April 17 to 18, 2021. The school theme is Stochastic Simulation and Reinforcement Learning and the IASC will provide up to 10 scholarships.

Forthcoming Event: 3rd LARS-IASC School on Computational Statistics and Data Science

The Third LARS-IASC School on Computational Statistics and Data Science will be held in Ciudad de México, México, from April 17 to April 18, 2021. This is a satellite event of the 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing, LACSC 2021, jointly organized by the Instituto Autónomo de México (ITAM), the Latin American Regional Section of the International Association for Statistical Computing (LARS-IASC) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

This year the school theme is Stochastic Simulation and Reinforcement Learning (http://lacsc2020.itam.mx) and the instructors,

Enrique Sucar, Inst. Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, México

“Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Applications”

David Muñoz-Negrón, Instituto Tecnológico de México (ITAM)

“Stochastic Simulation: Output Analysis and Applications”

Eduardo F. Morales, Inst. Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, México

“Reinforcement Learning”

The main purpose of the school is to spread the knowledge base and advances in Statistical Computing in Latin American countries and to increase the quantity of researchers and data scientists in the field. The program is organized around three axes: knowledge base and advances, software and data science applications and it is oriented to postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners in statistics and data science. For LARS-IASC students, the IASC will provide (a) up to 10 scholarships – 100% waiver in registration fee for people living in developing countries (low income countries https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/low-income and lower middle income countries https://data.worldbank.org/income-level/lower-middle-income); (b) 1 full scholarship that includes registration fee, travel, and stay expenses. To apply for these scholarships, the candidates must,

Be a member of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC). More information on how to become a member can be found here: http://iasc-isi.org/become-a-member/
At the time of the application and of the events be living and working/studying in a developing country.

ITAM’s mission is to contribute to the individual’s comprehensive education and to develop a more free and prosperous society. In order to achieve its research, teaching, and outgrowth endeavors, ITAM aims to reach the highest levels of academic excellence in an environment promoting the plurality of ideas and respectful of ethnic, cultural, and religious differences. Our institution's goal is to prepare and educate women and men that are capable of acting in an informed, rational, responsible, critical way, and committed to creating, managing, and shaping public opinion, institutions, as well as further works. It also intends that these women and men be capable of creating and transmitting knowledge of the highest ethical, scientific, technological, and professional levels, allowing society to become aware of its problems and contributing to their understanding and solutions https://www.itam.mx/en



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