Events Archive
2007 Events
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The SDASA Annual Business
Meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 14th, from
6 to 8 PM at Amylin Pharmaceuticals.
Chapter President Dr. Dale Glaser and Chapter Representative
Dr. Bob Riffenburgh will report on local and national ASA activities.
Karen Messer,
Professor of Biostatistics and
Bioinformatics at UCSD and Director of the
Biostatistics
and Bioinformatics Shared Resrouce at the Moores Cancer Center, will be
giving a talk on "Phase II Clinical Trials in Oncology".
Parking at the company
and pizza and drinks will be free of charge. RSVP by November 9th to
Xuesong Guan with the subject
line: "Business Meeting".
[Directions]
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The SDASA recently participated in the 50th Annual Greater
San Diego Science and Engineering Fair. This year 730 middle
school and high school students participated. Individual scientists
and professional organizations judge the merits of their projects
during several rounds of judging. SDASA members participated as a
judging team in the professional organizations' round. /
[Report]
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SDASA Careers Day, 2007.
The SDASA's 8th annual Statistical Careers Day
is Saturday, May 5th in the Little Theater
at San Diego State University.
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The keynote speaker,
Dr. Duane Steffey is Director of Statistical and Data Sciences at
Exponent and will give a talk
entitled "Interesting Times and Opportunities for Statisticians in
Academia, Industry and Government".
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2006 Events
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The SDASA cordially invites you to its Second Annual
One-Day Conference to be held on the 17th
of November in the Conference Room at the
Center for Molecular Genetics at UCSD.
We are honored to have
Dr. Brad Efron as our keynote speaker.
For more information on the conference, or to
contribute an oral or poster presentation, please
contact
Sheela Talwalker. Abstracts, limited to 300 words,
are due by the 15th of October. Decisions will be made
by October 31st. [ Program | Abstract Submission Form | Registration Form | Flyer | Directions ] |
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The SDASA's
Annual Picnic and BBQ is Saturday, September 9th
from 10 AM - 3 PM at San Deguito Park in Del Mar.
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Book Club: The Elements of Statistical Learning
Next Meeting, (3-5 PM) August 25th in the Small Conference
Room (D203) of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center
(Unsupervised Learning with Donald Bamber)
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The SDASA and Pfizer La Jolla Laboratories are pleased to announce that
Cyrus R. Mehta, PhD of
Cytel
Statistical Software and Services and the
Harvard University
School of Public Health will be giving a talk on
Flexible Adaptive Trial
Design: Improving the Return on Clinical Trials on Wednesday, the
7th of June at
Pfizer La Jolla Laboratories.
There will be a reception from 5-6 PM and the talk will run from 6-7 PM.
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SDASA Careers Day, 2006.
The SDASA's 7th annual Statistical Careers Day
is Saturday, May 20th in the Center for
Molecular Genetics at UCSD.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Robert Newcomb,
Director of the Statistical Consulting Center in the
Social Science Department at UC Irvine.
Peggy Wallace, CEO of Making Conversation, LLC,
will be giving a talk on Tips for the Interview.
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The SDASA is pleased to announce a set of lectures by
Professor Helena Kraemer of Stanford University.
Professor Kraemer's lectures on
Power in Randomized
Clinical Trials: Some Old and New Ideas
and
Clinically Interpretable Effect
Sizes: Their Role in Study Design, Interpretation,
and Meta Analysis
will be followed by
a Panel Discussion and Question and Answer Session.
Lectures and discussion will take place on Wednesday, the 26th of April, from 11 AM to 4 PM in Room 107 of the Leichtag Building at UCSD. Please reply to Sheela Talwalker by April 23rd, if you plan to attend. The price for the lectures and discussion is $30 ($20 with a valid student ID) before the 23rd and $40 ($30) thereafter. |
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The SDASA invites you to a short course on
Multiple Comparisons, Multiple Endpoints and Interim Monitoring
with Dr. Alex Dmitrienko,
on Friday, the 20th of January, from 8:30 AM to
4:30 PM at the UCSD Center for Molecular Genetics.
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2005 Events
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The SDASA
Annual Business Meeting will be October 27th from 6-9 PM in
Leichtag 107
(Building 804, Grid E-10) Dr. Phillip Good will describe some of his experiences from 25 years of statistical consulting in "My Life as a Consultant" / [Report] |
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The SDASA's
Annual Picnic and BBQ is Sunday, September 18th
from 11 AM - 4 PM at the El Arroyo Picnic Area and Gazebo
in Escondido's Kit Carson Park. /
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The SDASA's
Annual Teachers Fair is Saturday, September 10th
from 9 AM - 3 PM at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center
in La Jolla. The discussion will center on "Exciting Developments
in Statistics: New Ways Computers Can Help Us Describe Patterns"
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SDASA Careers Day, 2005.
The SDASA's 6th annual Statistical Careers Day
is Saturday, April 30th /
The keynote speaker, Professor
Hal Stern, will give a talk on
Forensic Statistics ("The Bullets match ...
But Who Cares") / [Report] |
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Applied Nonlinear Statistical Methods, a one-day ASA Council of Chapters traveling course, was given by Professor Tim O'Brien on March 25 / [Report] | |
2004 Events
Annual Picnic