6 Conferences
Conferences provide an opportunity to learn about new research, get feedback on your own research, practice presentation skills, take a short course, network, and more. Dr. Li is happy to discuss conferences relevant to your research and career goals in our meetings.
If we have discussed a conference and Dr. Li is funding your trip, please send Dr. Li a projected budget for the trip before purchasing plane tickets, registrations, or reserving hotels.
6.1 UCSC Travel Policies
Please review UCSC’s travel guide before you make purchases. The travel website sometimes is not up to date with the most recent policy changes, so it is also a good idea to look up in the emails for latest updates.
Some common pitfalls for conference travel: - Make sure you are within the lodging limit from UCSC. - Make sure the date of travel matches the conference dates (arriving no earlier than one day before the conference, and leaving no later than one day after the conference). If you would like to combine conference travel with personal trips (e.g., arriving a few days earlier or leaving a few days later), you will need to save records for a comparison ticket. - Similarly when traveling to and from a different location (e.g., flying from SFO to conference and return to your home in a different city), comparison tickets are needed.
6.2 Some conferences and timeline to participate
6.2.1 Statistics
- ENAR, usually in March, with abstract submission deadline in October and student paper competition due in October.
- WNAR, usually in June, with abstract submission deadline in February and student paper competition due in April.
- ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, usually in June, with abstract submission in April and student paper competitions from all ASA sections are due in April.
- Joint Statistical Meetings, usually in August, with abstract submission in February and student paper competitions from all ASA sections are due in November.
- International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, usually in January, with abstract submission in June.
- ISBA world meeting: every two years in July, with abstract submission in November and travel support in April (roughly).