[Forum SIS] Fwd: IASE News Update

[Maria Gabriella Ottaviani]

>To: Mariagabriella.Ottaviani at uniroma1.it
>Subject: IASE News Update
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>Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 16:13:44 +1200
>From: jharraway at maths.otago.ac.nz
>Reply-To: jharraway at maths.otago.ac.nz
>
>
>Hi Dr. Maria G. Ottaviani,
>
>There are several items of news I would like to convey to the current
>membership and earlier supporters of the IASE whose memberships may have
>lapsed.
>
>The IASE 2012 Roundtable Conference, "Technology in Statistics Education:
>Virtualities and Realities", will be held on 2-6 July 2012, in Cebu City,
>Philippines. The Roundtable format differs from many other conferences. Over
>four and a half days, only 16 invited papers will be presented. Each paper
>will receive a full hour for presentation and discussion. The authors and
>discussants have a worldwide distribution, including at least nine
>countries. A monograph will be produced.
>For more information please visit http://icots.net/roundtable/
>
>The ISI Scientific Programme Committee for the 59th World Statistics
>Congress (WSC), Sunday 25- Friday 30 August, 2013 in Hong Kong, has approved
>seven invited paper sessions proposed by IASE, plus five additional invited
>sessions under the youth theme. These sessions will be announced soon.
>Although the deadline for special topic sessions has passed, contributed
>papers and posters will be accepted beginning later in 2012 through 15
>February 2013. Any attendee may offer a contributed paper on work that has
>not been previously published or presented. For more details please visit
>http://www.isi2013.hk
>
>The IASE Satellite before the World Statistics Congress is scheduled
>Thursday 22- Saturday 24 August 2013 in neighbouring Macau and Chaired by
>Tae Rim Lee. This promises to be an exciting conference. It is a joint
>satellite with IAOS, International Association of Official Statistics. The
>Thursday and Saturday will feature papers proposed by IASE members on the
>theme "Statistics Education for Progress". The Friday will have a special
>sub-theme, "Statistics Education for Progress: Youth and Official
>Statistics". On this day, IASE members will join with representatives of the
>IAOS in combined sessions. Of course IAOS members are welcome to attend the
>three days and I hope many will. The Friday will have four sub themes:
>
>Official statistics resources for schools
>Official statistics resources for tertiary education
>Putting official statistics into the real world of youth
>Educational uses of youth statistics.
>
>Current indications are that there will be strong representation from China,
>Japan and South Korea which should herald a worthwhile expansion of IASE
>activities in this part of the world.
>The conference website is under development by Brad Payne who produced the
>excellent Malahide Satellite website in Dublin last year.
>
>Our other major conference is ICOTS9 which will be held from 13 to 18 July
>2014 in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. Flagstaff is a small city, near a variety
>of mountain ranges and natural wonders, including the Grand Canyon. At an
>altitude of roughly 2000 meters, Flagstaff will be the highest host city for
>an ICOTS conference and the first time ICOTS has been held in the United
>States.
>
>The conference theme, in line with the mountain setting, is "Sustainability
>in Statistics Education". The International Programme Committee includes the
>following members:
>
>Tim Dunne (South Africa), IPC Chair
>Gillian Lancaster (United Kingdom), Scientific Coordinator
>Arthur Bakker (The Netherlands), Editor of Proceedings
>John Shanks (New Zealand), Information Manager
>Roxy Peck (United States), Local representative on the IPC
>Helen MacGillivray (Australia), Programme Scheduler
>
>The conference website can be found at http://icots.net/9/. Please keep in
>contact with this site as it will be added to over the next two years. We
>are fortunate to have John Shanks as webmaster. John built our impressive
>sites for both ICOTS7 and ICOTS8. Please contact Tim Dunne if you have ideas
>for the program. This is an important conference as it is truly
>international and much is gained by meeting colleagues in person from around
>the world.
>
>I also ask you to keep informed about the International Statistical Literacy
>Project. Reija Helenius, the Director, from Statistics Finland, has advised
>that the next ISLP Competition 2012-2013 will be organized the same way as
>last time. The competition will start in the beginning of September this
>year 2012. The website for updated information is
>http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/islp/  Note that you can check your
>country coordinators for the competition by searching the ISLP website.
>
>Finally, if you have not had the opportunity to renew your IASE membership
>please note that all you have to do is go to the IASE website
>http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase  and select members and then the
>membership application form. There is a substantial discount for people from
>developing countries.
>
>Best wishes
>John Harraway
>President
>International Association for Statistical Education