The New England Statistics Symposium is an annual conference that moves throughout the region. In odd-years the conference is held at the University of Connecticut. Short courses, break-out groups, poster sessions and keynote addresses are spread over two days. In recent years there has been a student paper competition and various other sponsored awards. A historical overview is presented below.
Year |
Host |
Keynote Speakers |
| 2022 | Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut | Jeff Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Biostatistics Susan Murphy, Harvard University |
| 2021 | Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Rhode Island | Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Siddhartha Chib, Washington University in St. Louis Christopher Schmid, Brown University |
| 2019 | Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut | Samuel Kou, Harvard University David Rosenberg and Amanda Stent, Bloomberg |
| 2018 | Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst | Montse Fuentes, Virginia Commonwealth University Dawn Woodard, Uber |
| 2017 | Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut | Xihong Lin, Harvard University David Madigan, Columbia University |
| 2016 | Department of Biostatistics, Yale University | Scott Zeger, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Sally Morton, University of Pittsburgh |
| 2015 | University of Connecticut | Yaakov Bar-Shalom, University of Connecticut Adrian Raftery, University of Washington |
| 2014 | Harvard University | Alan Argesti, University of Florida Lee-Jen Wei, Harvard University |
| 2013 | University of Connecticut | Mike West, Duke University Richard Bass, University of Connecticut |
| 2012 | Boston University | Rick Durrett, Duke University Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2011 | University of Connecticut | Brad Carlin, University of Minnesota Jun Liu, Harvard University |
| 2010 | Harvard University | Iain Johnstone, Stanford University Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft Research New England |
| 2009 | University of Connecticut | James O. Berger, Duke University Richard A. Davis, Columbia University |
| 2008 | Suffolk University | Andrew Lo, MIT Martin Wells, Cornell University |
| 2007 | University of Connecticut | Paul Dupuis, Brown University Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut |
| 2006 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Lawrence H. Cox, National Center for Health Statistics Soren Bisgaard, University of Massachusetts |
| 2005 | University of Connecticut | Evarist Gine, University of Connecticut David Harrington, Harvard University |
| 2004 | Harvard University | George Cobb, Mount Holyoke College Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2003 | University of Connecticut | Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University J. Michael Steele, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2002 | Yale University | Leon Gleser, Univeristy of Pittsburgh Bruce Levin, Columbia University |
| 2001 | University of Connecticut | Joseph Ibrahim, Dana Farber and Harvard University Joseph Horowitz, University of Massachusetts |
| 2000 | Brown University | David Mumford, Brown University Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut |
| 1999 | University of Connecticut | Louise Ryan, Dana Farber and Harvard University Donald Geman, University of Massachusetts |
| 1998 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | James Stock, Harvard University L.J. Wei, Harvard University |
| 1997 | University of Connecticut | Constantine Gatsonis, Brown University Richard Dudley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1996 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Gerald Hahn, General Electric John Pratt, Harvard University |
| 1995 | University of Connecticut | Andrew Barron, Yale University Cyrus Mehta, Cytel Corporation |
| 1994 | University of Rhode Island | Herman Chernoff, Harvard University David Salsburg, Pfizer Central Research |
| 1993 | University of Connecticut | Carl Morris, Harvard University Stuart Geman, Brown University |
| 1992 | Bentley University | Alan Gelfand, University of Connecticut Robert Devaney, Boston University |
| 1991 | University of Connecticut | Nan Laird, Harvard University David Pollard, Yale University |
| 1990 | University of Lowell | Yali Amit, Brown University Persi Diaconis, Harvard University |
| 1989 | University of Connecticut | Herman Chernoff, Harvard University Andrew Rukhin, University of Massachusetts |
| 1988 | University of Massachusetts | |
| 1987 | University of Connecticut | John Hartigan,Yale University Donald B. Rubin, Harvard University Gottfried Noether, University of Connecticut |