Risk Analysis
Entries Sought for Paper Competition
T
he ASA Section on Risk Analysis
engineering structures, health risks, and
Analysis Student Paper Award commit-
is soliciting entries for their
risks to defense and national security.
tee, at
simmonssj@uncw.edu. The email
Student Paper Competition.
Entrants should submit a completed
should include the completed manu-
Each year, the section offers at least one
manuscript by January 10, 2010. There
script and the letter from the student’s
student travel award of up to $1,000 to
are no requirements concerning the
advisor. All submitted materials must
defray the cost of attending JSM.
minimum or maximum length of the
arrive by midnight on January 10,
The competition is open to all graduate
manuscript, but conciseness is encour-
2010, with the words “Student Paper
and undergraduate students, full or part
aged. In addition, a letter from the
Award” in the subject line. The manu-
time, attending an accredited academic
student’s advisor is required certifying
script and supporting materials should
program who are members of the Section
that the student is registered during the
be included as PDF documents attached
on Risk Analysis (students may join the
spring of 2010 and that the student is
to the email.
section at the time of submission).
primarily responsible for the work con-
Manuscripts will be judged on rel-
Papers should develop new method-
tained in the paper. Joint papers are
evance to and interest of the subject
ology in risk analysis or apply existing
acceptable, but the entrant should be
matter, the quality of writing, and the
risk methods in a novel way. The con-
the first-named author and the advisor’s
quality of the research. The result of
tribution may be a theoretical devel-
letter should make clear the student’s
the competition will be announced by
opment or cover any of the numerous
contribution relative to the coauthors.
January 31, and the winner(s) will be
applications of risk analysis, including
Entries should be sent to Susan
required to submit an abstract to the
environmental risk, financial risk, risk to
Simmons, chair of the Section on Risk
ASA by midnight on February 1. n
Statistical Consulting
Travel Award
winners
Announced
Cynthia r. Long, section
Publications officer
Congratulations to our travel award win-
ners for their best topic-contributed ses-
sions during JSM 2009. Christopher
Schmid of Tufts Medical Center orga-
nized “So You Want to Be an Expert
Witness?” and Richard Ittenbach of
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical
Center organized “Statistical Consulting
with Limited Resources.” Both sessions
were interesting and well-attended.
Do you have an idea for a topic-con-
tributed paper or panel session for JSM
2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia?
If so, contact our 2010 JSM program
chair, Walter Ambrosius, at wambrosi@
wfubmc.edu. You should be working on
organizing the session now so you can
submit the session information when
the JSM abstract submission site opens
on December 1, 2009. n
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