Early Career & Student Statisticians Conference
18 to 21 November 2024 (Mon-Thu)
The Early Career & Student Statisticians Conference (ECSSC) is a biennial conference held during the interstitial years of the Australian Statistical Conference (ASC).
It is jointly organised by the ECSS Network of the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA), and the Student and Early Career Statisticians Network (SECS) of the New Zealand Statistical Association (NZSA).
For 2024, we are excited to coordinate three local hubs: Perth, Hobart, and New Zealand; as well as offer a livestream.
Aims
The aims of this event are:
- Provide an opportunity to socialise and share ideas amongst peers.
- Build and expand professional networks for mutual support and collaboration.
- Discuss new techniques and technologies applicable to statistics and data science.
- Promote the role of statistics in academia, government, and industry.
An “Early Career or Student Statistician” is anyone who is currently studying statistics or data science, or has graduated in the last five years and works with statistics. There is no age restriction.
Format
ECSSC2024 is a hybrid event held over four half-days across three in-person hubs. For the best experience, delegates are strongly encouraged to attend one of these hubs either in Perth, Hobart, or New Zealand. Nevertheless, presenters at each hub will be livestreamed to the other hubs and to the online audience.
The first day has a workshop that is included as part of the conference registration.
Submissions
The Organising Committee encourages all early career statisticians and students to submit an abstract for inclusion in the conference programme.
We are looking for a diversity of abstracts, i.e., we are not only interested in scientific or academic findings, but invite descriptions of proposals or works-in-progress, career experiences, challenging problems, reviews of emerging statistical technologies and techniques, and even biographies of statistical heroes.
If in doubt, send it out!
Important Dates
Please note that these dates might be adjusted as the conference approaches.
| 1 July 2024 | Call for abstracts |
| 15 July 2024 | Registration opens |
| 26 July 2024 | Deadline for abstracts submission |
| 23 August 2024 | Notification of abstract acceptance |
| 13 September 2024 | Deadline for registration of accepted abstracts |
| 14 September 2024 | Deadline for early-bird registration |
| 11 October 2024 | Programme released |
| 4 November 2024 | Invitations to Slack workspace |
| 11 - 15 November 2024 | Tech rehearsals |
| 15 November 2024 | Registrations close |
| 18 November 2024 | Conference starts |
| 21 November 2024 | Conference concludes |
Acknowledgement of Country
The ECSSC2024 Organising Committee acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and New Zealand, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures; and to elders both past and present.