Outstanding Presentation Award to David M. Steinberg of Tel
leveraging SPES visibility at these presentations by encouraging
Aviv University for “Sequential Design of Experiments for GLMs”
mixers with refreshments following the presentations. Other ideas
were to distribute the SPES brochure at the mixer, follow up with
Outstanding Presentation Award (runner-up) to Herbert Lee
attendees, award ASA SPES membership to some attendees (dis-
of the University of California, Santa Cruz, for “Treed Gaussian
cretion of presenter), and to make a formal presentation about
Processes for Computer Model Emulation”
SPES at the mixer.
Outstanding Presentation Award (honorable mention) to More publicity is needed for the statistics in chemistry award.
Morris H. Morgan of Hampton University for “Statistical
There was no award this year because of a lack of nominations.
Response of Chaotic Networks to Structured Noise”
Funded by DuPont in 2009, the award is $2,000, which will be
used to fund the 2010 award.
Outstanding Presentation Award (honorable mention) to
Christopher Tong of Merck & Co., Inc. for “Simple Linear SPES is allotted a full-page ad per year in Amstat News, and
Regression When Both Variables Are Random”
we are looking for ideas about how to best use this space to
promote SPES activities. Our current publicity chair, Stephanie
Outstanding Presentation Award (honorable mention) to
Pickle, is in charge of this activity.
Sanjib Basu of Northern Illinois University for “A Unified
Competing Risks Cure Rate Model for Failure Data” Volunteers are needed to fill SPES positions in 2010.
Openings include a publications chair, FTC steering committee
Outstanding Presentation Award (honorable mention) to representative, and operating manual committee chair.
Ta-Hsin Li of IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for “A Robust
Nonlinear Method for Spectral Analysis”
2010 Joint Research Conference
In an effort to encourage excellence in the JSM poster pro-
Will Guthrie, SRC Program Committee
gram, SPES began the outstanding poster presentation awards
The 17th Spring Research Conference on Statistics in
program at JSM 2007. The section is pleased to announce the
Industry and Technology and the 27th Quality and
results of its third competition for contributed posters. As with
Productivity Research Conference will be held jointly at the
the paper presentation awards, all awards are based on audi-
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in
ence evaluations. The awards will be presented to the winners
Gaithersburg, Maryland (just outside Washington, DC),
at the SPES mixer during JSM 2010.
from May 25–27.
The goal of the conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary
Outstanding Poster Presentation Award to Maria Weese of The
research among statisticians, scientists, and engineers in qual-
University of Tennessee for “The Use of T-Squared Control
Charts for Process-Driven Studies”
ity and productivity, industrial needs, and the physical and
engineering sciences. Statistical issues and research approaches
drawn from collaborative research will be highlighted. You
Outstanding Poster Presentation Award (runner-up) to Yang Yang
of the University of Michigan for “Inference with Censored
are invited to contribute papers on these topics for pre-
Degradation Data”
sentation. Submit title, authors, and a short abstract to
jrc2010cp@nist.gov for consideration. The deadline for abstract
Outstanding Poster Presentation Award (honorable mention)
submission is March 15, 2010.
to Ritaja Sur of the University of Maryland for “Statistical Student scholarships for participation in the conference
Analysis of Eye Movement Data”
include the Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarship (see
www.amstat-online.org/sections/qp/Natrella_Scholarship.htm)
Congratulations to all the winners. Start preparing now for
and JRC student scholarships.
JSM 2010 and you may see your name listed among the award
Conference sponsors include SPES, the Section on Quality
winners next year.
and Productivity, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,
NIST, The Boeing Company, and the Smith School of
Business at the University of Maryland. For further informa-
SPES Executive Council Meeting
tion, contact Will Guthrie at
will.guthrie@nist.gov. n
Phil Scinto, SPES Past Secretary, and Elizabeth Schiferl,
SPES Secretary-Treasurer
Corrections
Highlights of this year’s meeting include the following:
The photos in the Walter shewhart article, published in the
The SPES budget continues to be in the black. while dues september issue of Amstat News, were provided by Darin and
have declined, revenues from continuing education courses spon- Joanne sekulic, neither of whom are shewhart’s relatives. We
sored by SPES at both JSM and FTC have been good. This year,
apologize for any confusion.
SPES sponsored four courses at JSM.
In the october 2009 issue of Amstat News, stephen Fienberg’s name
The Marquardt Program sponsors speakers from industry
was misspelled. we apologize for the error.
to give talks to those in academia. There was discussion about
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