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Young Statisticians

Welcome !!

Do you feel you're still in the early years of your statistical career? For example, are you studying or researching in the field of statistics or have you recently had a career change to statistics? No matter what your age is, if you're a career-young statistician then the RSS Young Statisticians Section is here to support you!

The Young Statisticians Section (YSS) is the newest section of the RSS and aims to unite all statisticians in the early stages of their career. The YSS provides a central resource for Continuing Professional Development and networking through the support we offer and an exciting schedule of events. This is applicable to any career-young statistician, whatever sector or field they work in and whatever their age.
 
The section will continue to support its members by offering both professional development and networking opportunities. The committee are optimistic that word will spread and the section can grow to represent an entire community of young statisticians learning from one another.
 
 
YSS Objectives
The mission of the YSS is to unite statisticians in the early stages of their careers, acting as a central resource which supports, promotes, coordinates and provides a voice for all those within the YSS community. More specifically, the section will:
  1. Encourage networking through formal and social events both face to face and online.
  2. Aid the professional development of statisticians in the early stages of their career, from all sectors.
  3. Provide an interface between young statisticians and all RSS activities/services and between statistical employers and employees.
  4. Provide outreach to promote the prospects of a career in statistics.

 

 

 

News:  YSS activities at the RSS international conference,

Sept, 13-17    

in Brighton.
 
13th September 2010, 10:00am - 4.30 pm:
Young Statisticians Training Day: How to make most of the RSS conference
RSS conference.
 
Featuring presentations on
- A young statisticians experience of the RSS conference
- Creating posters with impact
- How to market yourself and network at the conference
Followed by a workshop on how to write a good abstract, providing the opportunity:
- to see examples of good and bad abstracts
- to find out the conference committee guidelines for accepting abstracts
- to work in groups to create an abstract for an article from Significance to be reviewed using the committee guidelines. Prizes will be awarded for the best abstract.
 
This pre-conference activity is open to statisticians at any stage in their career. For more information and to register visit:
 
14th September 2010, 8:45am - 10.00 pm:
Networking breakfast

A chance to meet and network with other Young Statisticians at the
conference. Featuring hot breakfast rolls and our famous "speed
networking" sessions.
 
15th September 2010, 12- 1.00 pm:
YSS Retrospective Read paper
(conference version of the Pre-ordinary Meetings)
 
This tutorial session will support and provide background explanation
to the re-read paper by Rob Tibshirani on LASSO to be held on the
afternoon of the 15th.
 
15th September 2010, 5.00 pm:
YSS AGM

Held immediately before the "Best of RSC 2010" session, the AGM
provides an opportunity to find out what the YSS committee have been
up to over the last 12 months.
 
15th September 2010, 7.00 pm:
YSS evening social

An opportunity to socialise and get to know your fellow Young
Statisticians in an informal environment. Featuring an icebreaker
introduction and a cash bar. Venue TBC.
 
 
 
 

News:  Joint Young Statisticians and West Midlands event,    

Oct 14

speakers: James Carpenter (LSHTM) and Mona Akache (Warwick). More information will be made available soon.
 
 
 
 

News:  Joint meeting of YSS and RSS Centre for Statistical Education,    

Oct 22

at the University of Plymouth.

The RSS Centre for Statistical Education (CSE) is starting a pilot
programme for the new RSS CSE Stats Club with YSS. The aim is to
encourage schools to set up workshops called 'RSS CSE Stats Club' once
a week or fortnight during lunch times or after school. Each school
can structure their workshop as they like but are supported by the RSS
CSE who provide work material and a website for those part of the
club. This meeting seeks to promote the new RSS CSE Statistics Club
and to present the wide range of career prospects available to those
who study statistics. The event is aimed at GCSE and A Level students
and their teachers.

The morning will consist of statistical career talks and a workshop
for the students will take place after lunch. Talks cover a wide range
of topics, including

- Academia; "Statistics for science" (Dr Stan Yip University of Exeter)
- Government; "Statistician or analyst? A life in the day of an
Assistant Statistician" (Dr Daryl Lloyd, Department for Transport.
Government Statistical Service)
- Academia; "There's no theorem like Bayes Theorem" (Dr. Paul Hewson,
University of Plyamouth)
- Industry; "A year in the life of a statistician" (Tim J. Wyatt,
GlaxoSmithKline)
- Medical; "Piecing together an epidemiological puzzle" (Ross Harris,
Health Protection Agency)
- Finance; "Statistics at the Bank of England" (Eleanor Broughton,
Bank of England)

For further information, please contact Karen Lamb, k.lamb@sphsu.mrc.ac.uk

 
 
 

News:  Young Statisticians' Meeting 2011,    April 12-14

in Southampton
 
The Young Statisticians' Meeting (YSM) is an annual event specifically designed for career young statisticians, organised by career young statisticians. If you are in the early years of your statistical career (first 10 years) or currently studying for a PhD, MSc or BSc in statistics then YSM offers an excellent opportunity to network amongst your peers, present your own research in a friendly atmosphere and discover a variety of other statistical topics currently being researched.
 
For further information, please visit
 
 
 

News:  Young Researchers in Mathematics 2011,    April 14-16

at the University of Warwick

This conference for PhD students and young post-docs in mathematics
will be held over 14th-16th April 2011 at the University of Warwick.
The aim of the event is to strengthen ties between young
mathematicians in the UK and beyond.

For more information and to register, please visit
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/postgrad/events/ yrm2011/
 
 
 
 
 

Past events 2009-2010

 
 
 

Committee Members

 

Young Statisician Members

Top: Claire, Emma, Laura, Paul, Oliver, Karen, Rebecca
Middle: Kerry, Jenny, Natalia, Adele
Bottom: Helen, Kim, Sophie, Deborah

 

Contacts


    Adele Marshall (Chair)
    Paul Baxter (Secretary)

    Claire Gormley, Deborah Aniyeloye, Emma Eastoe, Helen Thornewell, Karen Lamb, Kerry Dwan, Kim Kavanagh, Laura Gray, Natalia Bochkina, Oliver Ratmann, Rebecca Walwyn, Sophie Barthel

     

     

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    Please join here.

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    These can be found here.

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