The 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) will be held in Poland, Oregon, on August 3 – 8, 2024. Two invited sessions are allocated for the ICSA. The theme for JSM 2024 is “Statistics and Data Science: Informing Policy and Countering Misinformation”. Not all sessions have to adhere to this theme. The sessions related to the theme would be preferred. ICSA members who are interested are encouraged to submit an invited session proposal online at ww2.amstat.org/jsminvited through ICSA sponsorship. The submission deadline for invited session proposals is September 7, 2023. After this date, no further invited session proposals will be accepted.
The invited sessions are 110 minutes in length. The sessions typically include 2–6 participants, including the chair, with two of the most popular and successful formats being 2–3 speakers with a discussant or a panel discussion of 3–5 panelists. The information required to submit an invited session proposal includes:
- Session Type (Invited Paper or Invited Panel)
- Sponsor (Outside Organization, ASA Committee, ASA Section, Sponsoring Society, ASA Journal). A pre-approved list is provided; select no more than three.
- Session Title
- Session Description (3500 character maximum)- Please provide a short description of the session, including focus, content, timeliness, appeal and format of the session.
- Session organizer, including affiliation and email address
- Session chair, including affiliation and email address
- Session speakers and any discussants, including affiliation and email address
Please contact Yingwen Dong at Yingwen.Dong@sanofi.com for any questions regarding the ICSA-sponsored invited sessions.