SECS News & Events

On the two days following the NZSA 2026 Conference, 17-18 December, the Japanese Society of Computational Statistics will be holding a symposium at the University of Auckland to celebrate their 40th anniversary.  They have graciously provided a range of options for NZSA members to participate. You are invited to attend the keynote presentations (Ross Ihaka, Thomas Lumley, Paul ...

Student Travel Award The New Zealand Statistical Association (NZSA) is funding travel awards for students attending our 2026 conference. To be eligible for these awards, applicants must: Be a student enrolled at a New Zealand institution at the time of registration. Students are required to have their supervisor e-mail the NZSA Awards Committee convenor, Vanessa Cave to ...

The NZSA Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for the Association’s awards for 2026.  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 ...

The organising committee invite proposals for the BayesComp 2027 Mirror Conference in Aussois, France, that will take place on 17-21 May, 2027. The event will complement the main BayesComp 2027 meeting in Texas and provide a European forum for researchers in Bayesian computation and related areas. Plenary sessions will be broadcasted from Texas, while talks in Aussois ...

It’s time to register for the NZSA annual conference!  Early bird registration and abstract submission are open until Oct 31. You can register at: https://www.stats.org.nz/nzsa2026/index.php This year the conference is in Auckland,  Dec 14-16,  hosted by the University of Auckland.  It will run from 1PM Monday the 14th to 5PM on Wednesday the 16th.  Wednesday afternoon will deviate ...

Full details are available here: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/about-the-faculty/department-of-statistics/ihaka-lecture-series.html#2026-series   Lecture 1: Thursday 23 July Trustworthy data visualisation Kieran Healy Professor of Sociology, Duke University, U.S.A.   Lecture 2: Thursday 30 July 6pm When creativity meets code Dr Nicola Rennie Data visualisation specialist, Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom   Lecture 3: Thursday 6 August 6pm Spotting the weird ones Professor Rob J Hyndman Monash University, Australia   Abstracts and links are at https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/about-the-faculty/department-of-statistics/ihaka-lecture-series.html#2026-series

The Pacific Dataviz Challenge is a competition for all—of any age, background or skillset—that encourages storytelling, design, innovation and technical skill in the visualisation of Pacific data. Participants, individually or as a team, are invited to create data visualisations that highlight important issues or opportunities facing the Pacific region. Your submission could be an infographic, animation, dashboard, web app, poster, ...

The April 2026 issue of our newsletter is available here.

We are pleased to invite applications for the second round of the NZSA Tidy International Travel Scholarship, specifically designed to support Student and Early Career Statisticians (SECS) 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 ...

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).