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Science Fair -- Albuquerque Chapter of the ASA

Albuquerque Chapter of the American Statistical Association

Chapter Newsletters

2005

Dear Chapter Members,

I would like to update you on several activities our chapter will be involved during this year.

On Saturday, April 8th, we will award prizes for "Best Use of Statistics" at the New Mexico Science and Engineering Fair (Socorro, NM). A first, second and third place will be awarded amongst the Senior Division projects. Prizes will include a plaque for the school, as well as a certificate and some cash ($60 for first place, $30 for second place) for the student. Information on the science fair can be found at http://infohost.nmt.edu/~science/fair/. You will also find a description of last year's experience at http://www.amstat.org/chapters/Albuquerque/scifair.html. Thanks to an ASA grant received last year (from the ASA Section on Statistics Education) and generous donations from our members, we should be able to offer this recognition to our high school students in the following years.
As for last year, we would appreciate any help from our members willing to be part of the judging team. March 10th 2006

Thanks to the efforts of our current Chapter representative, we are now affiliated with mu-sigma-rho, the national statistics honorary society. Undergraduate and graduate students fulfilling the qualifications criteria can now become members of the society through our chapter (see http://www.amstat.org/chapters/Albuquerque/msr.html for more details).We think that this affiliation will be beneficial for our profession by increasing the interest of undergraduate and graduate students in statistics. So far, only students from University of New Mexico have applied for membership, but I would strongly encourage members of other universities in New Mexico to advertise this opportunity to their students. Deadline for application (with transcripts) is March 15th for this year.

We plan to organize a chapter meeting on Thursday or Friday during the last three weeks of September. The meeting will be held in or close to Santa Fe, as it seems to be the most convenient location for most of our members. Due to the success of last year's meeting, we plan to propose again this year a mix between general and technical talks. We will give you more details as soon as they are available.

Alyson Wilson from Los Alamos has been maintaining our chapter's website up to this year. We sincerely thank her for her dedication and help while she was no longer an officer. Our chapter representative, the new webmaster, has updated the webpage for this year's event. You can visit it at http://www.amstat.org/chapters/Albuquerque/.

As a concluding remark, I will remind you that this chapter is your chapter, and it is part of our duty, as officers, to promote or develop anything that could be useful or beneficial to the chapter or, more generally, statistics in New Mexico. If you have any ideas, suggestions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us. You will find below the names and e-mails of all current chapter members.

Secretary-Treasurer: Larry Pratt (Lawrence.pratt@intel.com)
Vice-President: Scott Vander Wiel (scottv@lanl.gov)
Chapter Representative: Erik Barry Erhardt (erike@stat.unm.edu)
President: Cedric Sallaberry (cnsalla@sandia.gov)

Sincerely,

Cédric SALLABERRY
For the Albuquerque Chapter of the ASA
February 21, 2006

2004

Chapter Members:

I'd like to update you on three chapter events that will be happening over the next several months.

First, several individuals from the chapter will be traveling to the New Mexico Science and
Engineering Fair in Socorro on April 9 to judge entrants in the Senior Division for a "Best Use of Statistics" award. We will award prizes for first, second, and third places. All prizes include a plaque and certificates; first also includes $60 and second $30. We have received a $500 grant from the ASA Section on Statistics Education to help cover the cost of prizes for this year and next year.

Second, as part of the ASA Traveling Short Course program, Tim Hesterberg will be presenting a short course entitled "Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests for Doing and Teaching Statistics." Details have yet to be arranged; we are hoping to hold the course in April in the Albuquerque area.

Third, the date of our annual meeting has been set for Friday, September 16. Speakers tentatively include Bob Mason, a past president of ASA; current president Fritz Scheuren; and president-elect Sallie Keller-McNulty. Several slots for chapter members to speak have also been included in the program.

I'll keep you posted with the details of these events as they become available.

Sincerely,

Sarah Michalak
President, Albuquerque Chapter of the ASA
March 04, 2005

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