SECS News & Events

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 ...

The 76th annual New Zealand Statistical Association (NZSA) Conference will be hosted by the University of Auckland, 14-16 December 2026. For more information, and to register, please see https://www.stats.org.nz/nzsa2026/index.php. Note that early bird registration is open until 31 October.

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).

  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.