The International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013)

Official Website: http://statistics2013.org/

The International Year of Statistics ("Statistics2013") is a worldwide celebration and recognition of the contributions of statistical science. Through the combined energies of organizations worldwide, Statistics2013 will promote the importance of Statistics to the broader scientific community, business and government data users, the media, policy makers, employers, students, and the general public. The goal of the year:

• increasing public awareness of the power and impact of Statistics on all aspects of society;
• nurturing Statistics as a profession, especially among young people; and
• promoting creativity and development in the sciences of Probability and Statistics

Of course, your organization might choose to have special activities during 2013, or to shine a special light on Statistics through some of your regularly scheduled activities.

We hope many groups will place special emphasis on activities to engage students and potential students of statistics, helping them to become more aware of statistics as a key scientific discipline. Some organizations might consider special foci, such as a broad statistical literacy outreach or promoting the ways in which statistics advances science and improves the human condition.

Activities for the first quarter of 2013:

October 17-18, 2012 — "Statistics and Its Applications", National University of Uzbekistan (NUUz), Dept. of Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics

January 1-9, 2013 — Workshop and Conference on Limit Theorems in Probability, Virtual Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Bangalore, India

January 2-5, 2013 — International Indian Statistical Association meeting, India

January 6-10, 2013 — ISBA Regional Meeting and International Workshop/Conference on Bayesian Theory and Applications, Banaras Hindu University, India

February 7-8, 2013 — 5th Biennial Statistical Society of Australia Young Statisticians Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne

February 21-23, 2013 — ASA Conference on Statistical Practice, New Orleans, LA, USA

February 22-23, 2013 — 2013 Spring Undergraduate workshop, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

March 10-13, 2013 — ENAR Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL USA

March 11-14, 2013 — 10th International Workshop on Operations Research: Making Decisions Under Uncertainty/Modeling Uncertainty, Havana, Cuba

March 12-14, 2013 — NatStats 2013 Conference, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia

March 14-15, 2013 — Tunisian Association of Statistics and its Applications, Fourth meeting on Statistics and Data Mining (MSDM 2013), Hammamet, Tunisia