What's New @ DSAP
International Biometric Society
Singapore region of International Biometric Society (http://www.biometricsociety.org/regions/) has been established this year with 15 founding members. Li Jialiang is the correspondent for member activities and other information.
Honours Project / Track II Project Oral Presentations, Semester 1 2011/2012
Please click here for the schedule.
QS World University Rankings
NUS Statistics and Operations Research have been highly ranked in the latest QS world rankings; the seventh globally and the top in Asia. We thank our staff and students for the hard work that led to this achievement. The top ten are:
1. Stanford
2. Harvard
3. Berkeley
4. Cambridge
5. MIT
6. Oxford
7. NUS
8. Toronto
9. Imperial
10. Princeton
The full list can be found here.
United Nations Population Projections Based on New Statistical Models (23/06/2011)
The United Nations Population Division released its 2010 revision of population projections, which were covered by the New York Times: "U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Century’s End". Leontine Alkema was involved in the development of new statistical models to project the total fertility rate for all countries, which were used in the population projections. This research will be published in Demography in August 2011 (Alkema, Raftery, Gerland, Clark, Pelletier, Buettner and Heilig: "Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate for All Countries").
To read on 2010 revision of population projections, click here.
To read on "U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Century’s End", click here.
Second Singapore Conference on Statistical Science
Click here to find out more.
Influenza research covered by Reuters, AFP
Research by Roman Carrasco, Alex Cook and others in NUS, Duke NUS and elsewhere in Singapore on antiviral stockpiling for influenza pandemic preparedness has been the subject of articles in Reuters and AFP and been syndicated to several thousand new outlets worldwide. The research has been published online in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Joint Research On Casino Gaming
Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore (CRA) will collaborate with the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability to promote joint research and development activities in the area of mathematical research relating to casino gaming. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed yesterday at the 2nd CRA Gaming Technology Forum. Click here for more details.
First annual DSAP graduate student conference
The first annual DSAP graduate students' conference will be held at IMS on Thursday 27 January. A timetable is available here. Directions to IMS can be found here. Attendance by non-research students is by invitation
Statistics Learning Centre
The centre is set up to help students who are reading any ST1000-level module, ST2131 and ST2334. Our experienced professors, assisted by our graduate students, are there to help students to clear their confusions and to enhance their understanding of statistical concepts. The operating hours of the centre are:
- Tuesdays, 12pm to 2.30pm
- Wednesdays, 12pm to 2.30pm
- Thursdays, 10am to 12noon
Click here for more details.
Computational Genomics Workshop: PyCogent/Qiime
A computational genomics workshop will be held 29th November to 1st December 2010 at the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability. It will cover PyCogent and Qiime, two powerful tools for analyzing large genomic data sets.
Click here for more details.
Laha Travel Award
Our Phd student, Fang Xiao has won a Laha Travel Award of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) to present his research paper (written jointly with Prof Louis Chen and Prof Qi-Man Shao) at the IMS Annual Meeting at Gothenburg, Sweden, in August 2010.
DSAP blog
The department now has a blog. Please visit and post comments or posts!
NUS Statistics Committee
The NUS Statistics Committee is a by-students-for-students committee with the purpose of fostering a unified community amongst the students in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability through organizing student initiated social, intellectual and other events. Click here to view their website.
Saw Swee Hock Professor of Statistics
Professor Peter Hall will be visiting the department from September to October 2011 as Saw Swee Hock Professor of Statistics
Statistics Advice Centre
The Statistics Advice Centre will operate from 18 August 2009 onwards. The centre offers free, advisory service to all NUS researchers (staff and students) to discuss matters of a statistical nature. The service will be offered on a walk-in, first-come first-serve basis.
The consultants are available to discuss your statistical problems with you on Tuesdays, 10.00am to 11.30am, and Thursdays, 12noon to 1.30pm.
If you wish to visit the Statistics Advice Centre, please go to the front desk of the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability located at Blk S16, Level 7 to be directed to the consultant on duty.
Please note that the service offered by the Statistics Advice Centre is purely advisory. The consultant will be happy to discuss with you any problems of a statistical nature that you may have. Such problems include, but are not limited to, concerns about the design of an experiment that you are planning to do, problems that you have with data that you have collected, discussion of appropriate statistical analyses, and help with the interpretation of output of statistical packages. Any service required beyond mere advice and discussion will have to be arranged with the Statistics Consulting Centre on a collaborative and/or paid basis.
The centre will operate by appointment during the University vacation periods. Please email to stamm@nus.edu.sg to arrange an appointment.
