Featured Speakers

Introductory Overview Lectures

Sunday, July 31
4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
Introductory Overview Lecture: Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis
Speaker: Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri

Monday, August 1
8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Introductory Overview Lecture: Causal Inference
Speaker: Judea Pearl, University of California at Los Angeles

Tuesday, August 2
8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Introductory Overview Lecture: Data Science
Speakers: Michael Jordan, University of California at Berkeley, and Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago

Wednesday, August 3
8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Introductory Overview Lecture: Adaptive Clinical Trial Design
Speaker: Scott Berry, Berry Consultants

Late-Breaking Sessions

Monday, August 1
2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Late-Breaking Session I: Invest in What Works - First Steps Towards Establishing Evidence-Based Policymaking Clearinghouse
Speakers: Shelly Wilkie Martinez, U. S. Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President; Amy O'Hara, Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications, US Census Bureau; Kathy Stack, Laura and John Arnold Foundation; Jeri Mulrow, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Tuesday, August 2
10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Late-Breaking Session II: Data Journalism and Statistical Expertise: An Urgent Need for Writers, Bloggers, and Journalists to be Statistically Savvy
Speakers: Regina Nuzzo, Gallaudet University; Mark Hansen, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Alberto Cairo, University of Miami; Julia Belluz, Vox Media; Carl Bialik, FiveThirtyEight

Monday, August 1

Nanny Wermuth

10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Medallion Lecture I: Tracing Pathways of Dependence: How Far Did We Get?
Nanny Wermuth, Johannes Gutenberg-University/Chalmers University of Technology

Joe Palca, NPR

4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
ASA President’s Invited Address: Science and News: A Marriage of Convenience
Joe Palca, NPR

Tuesday, August 2

Vincent P. Barabba, Market Insight Corporation

4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
ASA Deming Lecture: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective
Vincent P. Barabba, Market Insight Corporation

Jessica Utts, University of California at Irvine

8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
ASA President’s Address and Founder & Fellows Recognition: Appreciating Statistics
Jessica Utts, University of California at Irvine

Wednesday, August 3

Gerda Claeskens, KU Leuven

2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Medallion Lecture II: Model Averaging and Post-Model Selection
Gerda Claeskens, KU Leuven

Alice S. Whittemore, Stanford University School of Medicine

4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
COPSS Awards and Fisher Lecture: Personalizing Disease Prevention: Statistical Challenges
Alice S. Whittemore, Stanford University School of Medicine

Key Dates

    Attend

  • May 2, 2016 11:00 AM
    Registration and housing open
  • June 1, 2016
    Early registration deadline
  • June 2, 2016 12:01 AM - June 30, 2016 11:59 PM
    Regular registration (increased fees apply)
  • June 29, 2016
    Housing deadline
  • July 1, 2016 12:01 AM - July 21, 2016 11:59 PM
    Late Registration (increased fees apply)
  • July 30, 2016 - August 4, 2016
    2016 Joint Statistical Meetings

    • Program Participants

  • July 15, 2015 - September 3, 2015 11:59 PM
    Online submission of invited session proposals open
  • September 30, 2015
    Online submission of Continuing Education course proposals deadline
  • October 8, 2015 - October 29, 2015 11:59 PM
    Online submission of invited session abstracts open
  • December 1, 2015 12:01 AM - February 1, 2016 11:59 PM
    Online submission of abstracts (all except invited papers and panels)
  • January 14, 2016
    Online submission of topic-contributed session proposals deadline
  • January 15, 2016
    Online submission of Computer Technology Workshop (CTW) proposals deadline
  • January 19, 2016 - April 5, 2016
    Online submission of JSM Meeting & Event Requests
  • January 25, 2016
    Deadline to request registration extension for government agencies
  • March 31, 2016 - April 18, 2016 11:59 PM
    Online abstract editing open
  • May 17, 2016
    Draft manuscript deadline
 
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