Congratulations to the 2026 Student Award Winners! 🎉

John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award
🏆️ Harriet Mason, Monash University
🔗https://harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/

Student Paper Awards
🎓️ Yujie Ran, Nanyang Tech
🎓️ Beenu Sareena, University of Nebraska
🎓️ Adam Struzik, Adam Mickiewicz University
🎓️ Sarah Wang, University of Pittsburgh

These recipients will present their work at 2026 JSM and be honored at the mixer. 🔗https://community.amstat.org/jointscsg-section/awards/student-paper-competition

👏 Thank you to the review panels for their hard work! #rstats

📢 Call for Nominations: 2026-2027 Statistical Computing & Graphics Award

The Statistical Computing & Graphics Sections invite nominations recognizing innovation in statistical computing, software, or graphics with significant impact on practice or research.

🏆 $5,000 prize
✈️ Up to $1,000 travel support to JSM 2027 (award presentation)

Recent awardees include Hadley Wickham (2025) and Douglas Bates (2023).

🗓️ Nomination deadline: May 31
🔗 Details: https://community.amstat.org/jointscsg-section/awards/computing-graphics-award

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Are you an undergraduate or graduate student developing statistical software? Don’t miss your chance to be recognized! 🖥️

We’re now accepting submissions for the 2026 John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award.

🏆 Prize:
-$2,000 cash award
- Present at JSM 2026

📅 Submission Window: Opens October 24, 2025. Deadline is December 5, 2025, 5:00 PM EST.

Both individuals and teams are eligible.

🔗 https://community.amstat.org/jointscsg-section/awards/john-m-chambers

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Are you an undergraduate or graduate student working in Statistical Computing or Graphics? This is your chance to shine! We are inviting submissions for the 2026 Student Paper Competition.

🏆 Prizes:
- Up to 4 winners
- $1,000 cash award
- Present at JSM 2026

📅 Submission Window: Opens November 24, 2025. Deadline is December 5, 2025, 5:00 PM EST.

See more details at: https://community.amstat.org/jointscsg-section/awards/student-paper-competition

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📢 Call for proposals: eCOTS 2026! Sparking Joy and Discovery in a World of AI 🌟

Join CAUSE June 15–18, 2026, for an online conference exploring how AI can enhance creativity, curiosity, and connection in teaching statistics & data science.

Submit proposals by early 2026: https://www.causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots26/proposals

The submission portal is open now through September 3rd for proposals for invited sessions for JSM 2026 in Boston, MA.

For more information or to submit, please visit: https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2026/.

Reach out to Sherry Zhang (Statistical Graphics Section, Program Chair-Elect 2025) at [email protected] or Ben Baumer (Statistical Computing Section, Program Chair-Elect 2025) at [email protected] with questions.

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JSM 2025 – Wednesday Highlights

🖥️ Computing
8:30 AM – Changepoints: complex & large-scale data
10:30 AM – Intensive methods + Google innovation
2:00 PM – Generative AI & ML in biomedicine

📊 Graphics
Same great lineup: changepoints, computational methods, and visual challenges in AI & applied domains.

Don’t forget our joint section mixer is this evening!

📍 5:30–7:00 PM, Omni Hotel, Room H – Cumberland 6

Tuesday Highlights

📌 Computing

8:30-10:20AM
- Machine learning in spatial and spatio-temporal statistics
- Big data & the curse of dimensionality
- Computational advances in hypothesis testing

10:30-12:20PM
- Contributed poster presentations
- High performance data science using Julia: promise, successes, and challenges

📌 Graphics

8:30-10:20AM
- Who are the ggplot2 extenders, and how can you become one?

10:30-12:20PM
- Contributed poster presentations
- Developments in statistical graphics