The draft programme for this year’s RSS International Conference has now been released. The conference will take place in Harrogate, North Yorkshire from 4-7 September.
With over 65 invited topic sessions and professional development workshops accepted onto the programme, alongside 7 keynote sessions, it promises to be a busy event.
Session topics will range from statistical anxiety to the reproducibility crisis, eliciting expert knowledge to making better use of MCMC samples, and GitHub: version control for research, teaching and industry to FinTech and economic modelling.
Conference attendees will find out what it entails to model environmental risks such as waves, rainstorms and landslides; look at analytics for digital earth; and hear about energy, sustainability and statistics.
Improving sub-national official statistics estimates and data visualisation and modelling to inform public health intelligence are some of the areas covered in the Social and Wellbeing Statistics stream. Electronic health records, linked data, real world evidence and excess mortality are covered in the Medical Statistics stream.
You can also listen to the predictions for the Women's World Cup 2023 and the data detectives getting a better understanding of crime. You might also be intrigued to find out what the ‘From boxing to drumming … and beyond’ session is all about, or discover ‘How to avoid becoming an ornamental data scientist’.
Professional development workshops will cover subjects including ‘Secrets for securing research funding’, ‘How to do it all: advice from female statisticians’, ‘Working as a statistician or a data scientist in an international organisation’, ‘Debugging deciphered’, ‘Visualising spatial data in R’ and ‘How to help students develop statistical consultancy skills’.
There is still time to contribute to the programme through a talk or poster - the deadline for submissions for 20-minute talks is 5 April.