SECS News & Events

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 NZSA Award recipients are Claire Cameron (Campbell Award), Thomas Yee (Littlejohn Research Award), Jason Wen (Worsley Early Career Research Award) and Harold Henderson (Jean Thompson Award).

  2025 best student presentation winners (from left to right): Sarah Croft, Tarin Eccleston, Lisa Chen (Harmonic Analytics), John Haywood (NZSA President), Siwei Zhai, Ruiting Mao and Alec van Helsdingen.       The NZSA congratulates the winners of the 2025 NZSA Best Student Presentations. Harmonic Analytics generously sponsored these prizes at the 2025 NZSA Conference.        

The September 2025 issue of our newsletter is available here.

The Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago is very pleased to be hosting the 2025 NZSA Conference from 8-10 December. Registration is now open at: https://www.otago.ac.nz/maths-and-stats/news/2025-nzsa-conference. The Chair of the Organising Committee is Conor Kresin: conor.kresin@otago.ac.nz.

Full details are here: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/about-the-faculty/department-of-statistics/ihaka-lecture-series.html#2025-series The first law of geography is that everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. This year’s Ihaka Lectures are about geographic data – facts on maps. Drawing maps and analysing them used to require specialised resources. Modern computing has made maps accessible as a ...

The NZSA Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for the Association’s awards for 2025.  The list of awards is: Campbell Award, recognising sustained contribution to the promotion and development of statistics. Jean Thompson Award, recognising excellence in the application of statistics in New Zealand industry. Littlejohn Research Award, recognising excellence in research, based on publications during the five calendar ...

We have a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NZStatisticalAssociation Please check out our first video, a webinar from the SECS Network: Career progression: Commonalities & differences from academia to industry.

The NZSA 2025 Conference will be held in Dunedin from Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 December 2025, hosted by the University of Otago, with the conference sessions located in the St David Complex. For further enquiries about the conference please contact the Chair of the Organising Committee, Conor Kresin: conor.kresin@otago.ac.nz.

We are pleased to invite applications for the newly established NZSA Tidy International Travel Scholarship, specifically designed to support Student and Early Career Statisticians (SECSs) in attending international conferences related to statistics and/or data science, including those held in Australia.   Scholarship Details: Value: $2,500 Number: One scholarship per year   Eligibility Criteria: You must be a current member of the NZSA. ...

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