RSS 2014 International Conference
Monday 1st - Thursday 4th September
City Hall, Sheffield UK
Registration Brochure
Introduction
The Royal Statistical Society’s annual international conference this year takes
place at the City Hall in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and we hope that it is already
in your diary. There is something for everyone in the exciting and diverse
programme built round the conference streams which include Communication
of statistical ideas, Data Science, Medicine & epidemiology, Policy evaluation,
and Statistical methods and theory.
There is a 20% discount available on registration until 30 May and 10% until
21 July, so sign up early to take full advantage of these offers.
We are delighted to welcome Lord Allan of Hallam (Facebook), Peter Hall
(Melbourne), Tim Harford (Financial Times & BBC) and Terry Speed (Melbourne)
as our plenary speakers for the event.
We look forward to seeing you in Sheffield in September.
Full information about all aspects of the conference can be found at www.
rssconference.org.uk and check out the conference blog for insights into the
conference, and more in depth looks at the programme themes.
In addition there will be 29 invited sessions on a broad range of topics of
interest to statisticians and users of statistics with speakers from at least 12
countries.
There is a full professional development programme with pre-conference short
courses on Monday 1 September and workshops running throughout the main
conference.
The RSS Conference prides itself on being welcoming to new attendees and
there will be plenty of opportunity to meet old and brand new friends over tea
or coffee, at lunch or at one of the evening social events.
Professor Marian Scott OBE, FRSE
University of Glasgow
Chair of the RSS Conferences & Events Programme Board
Confirmed Speakers
Invited session speakers will include:
The conference programme will feature the following
plenary speakers:
Paul Agnew
(UK Met office)
Dame Valerie Beral
(Oxford)
Shirley Coleman
(Newcastle)
Ton de Waal
(Statistics Netherlands)
Peter Diggle
(Lancaster University)
Mark Elliot
(University of Manchester)
Johan Erikson
(Statistics Sweden)
K.J. Gile
(Massachusetts)
Richard Gill
(Leiden)
Mark Girolami
(Warwick)
Claire Gormley
(Dublin)
David Gross
(Freiburg)
Gustav Haraldsen
(Statistics Norway)
Tuesday morning
Opening plenary
President’s Invited Lecture
Lord Allan of Hallam
(Facebook)
Wednesday lunchtime
Significance lecture
Tim Harford
(Financial Times,
BBC Radio 4
‘More or Less’)
Wednesday afternoon
Terry Speed
(Walter and Eliza Hall
Institute, Melbourne)
Thursday afternoon
Closing plenary
Peter Hall
(University of Melbourne)
Peter Holmes
(formerly RSS Centre for
Statistical Education)
Arnold Komarek
(Prague)
Denise Lievesley
(King’s College London)
Marloes Maathuis
(Zurich),
Giovanni Montana
(King’s College London)
Tony O’Hagan
(University of Sheffield)
Sylvia Richardson
(MRC Biostatistics Unit,
Cambridge)
Duncan Ross
(Society of Data Miners)
Jesus Rogel-Salazar
(Dow Jones)
Alan Smith OBE
(ONS)
K. Feridun Turkman
(University of Lisbon)
Ron Wasserstein
(American Statistical Association)
A full list of invited speakers can be found here:
http://www.statslife.org.uk/events/annual-conference/speakers
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Registration
To book at a place at the conference please download a booking form from:
http://www.statslife.org.uk/events/annual-conference/registration
Details of the relevant fees at the different stages of registration can be found
below – if you have any questions about the rate you should pay please email
conference@rss.org.uk
Registration fees (excluding VAT) before 30 May:
Membership type
RSS Retired Fellow
RSS Student Fellow
RSS EDA Fellow
RSS CStat/GradStat
RSS Fellow
RSS student member
RSS section/group member
None of the above
Full
Conference
232
232
232
280
312
368
368
432
2-day
attenance
160
160
160
208
232
280
280
344
1-day
attenance
96
96
96
112
128
152
152
192
Registration fees (excluding VAT) between 31 May and 21 July:
Membership type
RSS Retired Fellow
RSS Student Fellow
RSS EDA Fellow
RSS CStat/GradStat
RSS Fellow
RSS student member
RSS section/group member
None of the above
Full
Conference
261
261
261
315
351
414
414
486
2-day
attenance
180
180
180
234
261
315
315
387
1-day
attenance
108
108
108
126
144
171
171
216
Registration fees (excluding VAT) after 21 July:
Membership type
RSS Retired Fellow
RSS Student Fellow
RSS EDA Fellow
RSS CStat/GradStat
RSS Fellow
RSS student member
RSS section/group member
None of the above
Full
Conference
290
290
290
350
390
460
460
540
2-day
attenance
200
200
200
260
290
350
350
430
1-day
attenance
120
120
120
140
160
190
190
240
Additional charges (for those not registering for the full conference)
(all excluding VAT):
Welcome reception
Awards reception
Conference dinner
£25
£15 (free to RSS members)
£48
Accommodation
Accommodation bookings are being handled by Marketing Sheffield –
please visit: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/RSS14 for further information
Professional development workshops
will include:
Tuesday 2nd September
Pre-conference courses
Note: Pre-conference short courses are charged for
separately via a different registration form
The following one-day courses are scheduled to take
place on Monday 1 September:
An introduction to Multivariate meta-analysis
Presented by Malcolm Price, Richard Riley, Ian White,
Dan Jackson and Jamie Kirkham
Statistical Principles for the Design of Experiments
Presented by Steven Gilmour, University of
Southampton
Sensitivity Analysis for Computer Models
Presented by Jeremy Oakley and Mark Strong,
University of Sheffield
Multivariate Data Analysis
Presented by Marta García-Fiñana, Trevor Cox,
Gabriela Czanner, Christopher Cheyne and Mario
Cortina
Financial Time Series Volatility Modelling and
Analysis
Presented by Tony Lawrance, University of Warwick
• Young Statisticians’ Guide to the Conference
• Giving a memorable presentation
• Best practice for running courses
Wednesday 3rd September
• Writing for a non-statistical audience
• CStat revalidation - experience to date and plans
for 2015
• Introduction to working with schools
Thursday 4th September
• Career development pathways for professional
statisticians
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Conference programme overview
10.45am - 11.30am
Plenary 1 - Campion (President’s Invited Lecture)
4.30pm - 5.30pm
Parallel Contributed sessions
MONDAY
12noon - 1.20pm
Parallel Invited sessions
• Communication of Statistical Ideas
• Time Series
• Government surveys and evaluation
• Medical
• Data Science
• Challenges for the Statistician
1 September (evening)
Welcome Reception at the Winter Garden
TUESDAY
2 September
9.40am - 10.40am
Parallel Contributed sessions:
• Statistics & the Law
• Spatial Analysis
• Housing and household security
• Industry & Commerce
• Environment & Ecology
• Medical/bioinformatics
• Communicating statistical evidence and
understanding probabilistic inference in criminal
trials
• New advances in multivariate modelling
techniques
• How are official statistics used in policy
evaluation?
• Statistics in Industry
• Bayesian spatio-temporal methodology for
predicting air pollution....
2.30pm - 4pm
Parallel Invited session
• Data visualisation – storytelling by numbers
• Papers from the Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society
• Data collection challenges in Establishment
Surveys
• Nightingale’s Legacy: The Value of Statistics to
Society
5.45pm - 7pm
Royal Statistical Society Awards Ceremony
7pm - 8.30pm
Awards and Poster Reception
WEDNESDAY
3 September
9am - 10am
Parallel Contributed sessions
• Statistical Methods & Theory
• Medical/Survival Data
• Roads and transport
• Statistics in Sport
10.10am - 11.40am
Parallel Invited & Contributed sessions
• What does the ubiquity of data mean for Society?
• Quantum statistics
• Statistics and Emergency Care
• Meta-analysis (contributed)
• Statistics in Sport
12.10pm - 1.10pm
Plenary 2 - Significance Lecture
The Big Data trap
2.30pm - 4pm
Parallel Invited sessions
• Statistical Modelling with big data
• Bayes meets Bellman
• YSS/Significance Magazine Competition Finalists
• Measuring segregation
• Statistics in Sport
4.20pm - 5.20pm
Parallel Invited sessions
5.30pm - 6.20pm Plenary 3
7.30pm - 8pm IOS/RSS Merger 21st
Anniversary Reception (Cutlers’ Hall)
8pm until late
Conference Dinner (Cutlers’ Hall)
THURSDAY
4 September
9.20am - 10.40am
Parallel Contributed sessions
• Statistics methods & theory/regression
• Loans, Prices, Inflation and the Income Gap
• Genetic sequencing
• Data linkage and privacy
• Communication of Statistical Ideas
• Trial design
11.10am - 12.40pm
Parallel Invited sessions
• Statistical Analytics Challenge finalists
• Checking and Cleaning in Big Data
• Mega Trends in Statistics – The past, present &
future of statistical thinking
• Anonymisation Practices for Sharing Data
• Floods: risk assessment, management and
attribution to climate change
2pm - 3.20pm
Parallel Invited sessions
• Who’s afraid of data science
• Advances in Astrostatistics
• Exploiting large genetic data sets
• Vic Barnett and his contributions to statistics
3.40pm - 4.30pm Plenary 4
Visit http://www.statslife.org.uk/events/annualconference/programme for full details
• Bayesian methods
• Medical/Observational data
• Victims of theft and older people
• Statistics in Sport (and Song)
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Key dates
30 May
30 June
21 July
1 September
2 September
2 September
3 September
4 September
First registration deadline (20% discount)
Final deadline for submissions for contributed posters
Second registration deadline (10% discount)
Pre-conference courses and evening welcome reception at the Winter Garden
(AM) Conference opens with the Campion (President’s Invited) Lecture
(Evening) Society Awards Ceremony at City Hall
(Evening) Conference dinner at Cutlers Hall
(PM) Close of conference
Conference office
(020) 7614 3918
conference@rss.org.uk
Twitter: @RSSAnnualConf
Conference chair
Mike Campbell
m.j.campbell@sheffield.ac.uk