The Dennis Trewin Prize, named after the former Australian Statistician Dennis Trewin AO, is awarded annually by the Canberra Branch for outstanding early career research in an area related to statistics and/or data science conducted within the ACT or regional NSW outside Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong.

This year we have a short-list of two candidates. They will be presenting their work at our late October meeting and a selection panel will determine the winner. Each candidate will have 20-25 minutes for their presentation and 5 minutes for audience questions. In partnership with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, monetary prizes totalling $1,000 or more will be on offer and distributed at the discretion of the selection panel.

After the presentations the panel will be given time to deliberate in a zoom breakout room, while those attending in-person will be asked to move outside and will have the opportunity to mingle with the candidates. After judging has been completed, all will be invited back in after which the winners and runner-up will be announced.

Also, we will be having an SSA Canberra dinner that evening at a nearby venue, so if you are interested in attending the dinner and catching up with members and friends in person, please see below for details for RSVP-ing.

Date: Tuesday 31 October 2023

Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm AEDT   

Venue: Room 4.04 in the Marie Reay Teaching Centre, the Australian National University, or via Zoom.

Zoom link:

https://anu.zoom.us/j/81782141817?pwd=N3FrcVBjamg0eEVpT0FCUUhvVXFkUT09

The zoom link will be open just before 5.30pm. RSVP is not required. Full zoom details given at the end of the email.

Speakers

1: Rui Shen: On the Estimation and Selection Consistency of Network Autoregressive Model: A Non-asymptotic Viewpoint

2: Xu Ning: A Double Fixed Rank Kriging Approach to Spatial Regression Models with Covariate Measurement Error

Full details given below.

Dinner: 

After the talks we will be holding a dinner at Badger & Co in the adjoining building at ANU (Badger & Co – Uni Pub – ANU – Canberra (badgerandco.com.au) at 7.15pm.  If you are interested in attending the dinner, please let me know by 4pm Monday 30 October by entering your details at SSA Canberra Branch dinner attendance sheet, or contacting me (warren.muller@csiro.au; 0407 916 868). Please regard this as a firm commitment, not just an intention. For withdrawals after the deadline, please remove your name from the sheet and phone or text me (0407 916 868).

NOTE: We are offering discounts to SSA early career and student members who attend dinner! For this meeting, dinners will be a fixed charge of $5 for student members and $10 for early career members. As the venue is card payment only, subsidised participants should pay cash to Warren Muller, who will pay for their meal by card. Other participants should purchase their own meals.