Fw: World Statistics Congress - IASE Call for Special Topic Sessions, NewDeadline: June 30, 2014

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From: iddo@research.haifa.ac.il
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:00 AM
To: lisbethk@terra.com.br
Subject: World Statistics Congress - IASE Call for Special Topic Sessions, 
NewDeadline: June 30, 2014

Dear colleague:

IASE, the Int'l Association for Statistical Education, is encouraging you to 
submit a
proposal for a Special Topic Session (STS) for the 60th ISI World Statistics 
Congress
(WSC) in Rio de Janeiro July 26-31, 2015.
Deadline: extended until 30 June 2014.
Proposals will be evaluated by the WSC60 Local Programme Committee (LPC), 
decisions by
September 2014.
     IASE is encouraging proposals on a range of topics related to the 
learning,
teaching, use, or improvement of understanding of statistics and probability 
in diverse
contexts, both by professionals, workers, managers, school pupils, 
university students,
teachers, and the general public. Special Topic Sessions are an important 
component of the
scientific programme of the WSC. Proposals for STS can be submitted by 
individual members
of the IASE and other ISI Associations, Committees, or from outside 
institutions and
organisations.

*HOW TO SUBMIT* : online at: www.isi2015.ibge.gov.br. Use the "Submission 
System" option
on the left-side menu. If you have already registered with this system, use 
your username
and password to login. If not, use the option given to create an account to 
register for
the first time.

*WHAT TO INCLUDE* : An STS proposal should include the following (you will 
have to paste
these components onto the website-based form):
1. TITLE: up to 30 words (but much shorter is better!)
2. DESCRIPTION: up to 3000 characters (including spaces - about 30-35 text 
lines). Explain
the focus of the proposed session, justify the topic (why it should be of 
interest to WSC
participants, what is innovative or useful about it, etc) and sketch briefly 
the proposed
content/papers/structure. At this stage an abstract for each paper is not 
required
3. SESSION LENGTH: Choose between 70 or 100 or 120 minutes. Session 
composition should fit
the requested length in terms of the number of papers included, assuming 
20-25 minutes per
paper + extra time for other session components (opening, closing, general 
discussion,
etc).
4. CONTACT INFORMATION: submit contact details and affiliation of all 
persons proposed for
the session: Organizer, Chair, Presenters, Discussant (optional). To 
maximize diversity,
the same person cannot be the (oral) presenter of more than one paper at 
WSC60, and cannot
be both a chair and presenter/discussant in the same session.

*PROPOSAL PLANNING* : There is a limited number of slots, so only 
high-quality proposals
will be selected. There will be more 100-minute session slots, so we suggest 
to aim for
that. The use of Discussants may not be needed for most sessions dealing 
with technical
topics. A Discussant should be a part of an STS only if it would really 
benefit from it.
Sessions that include speakers from different countries will be given 
preference.
    *CONSULTATION WITH IASE* :  Those wanting informal feedback on their 
proposal in
order to improve their quality and fit with IASE sponsorship are encouraged 
to submit
details and ideas by 15-June-2014 to Bruno de Sousa, the IASE representative 
for WSC60:
*<bruno.desousa@fpce.uc.pt>*. We will do our best to provide quick feedback. 
Afterwards,
it is your responsibility to submit the full revised proposal to the WSC60 
Local Program
Committee via the website as explained above by 30-June-2014.
  Persons who already submitted a proposal for an Invited Paper session 
will be notified
soon by the WSC60 Scientific Committee regarding their status, and if not 
accepted will be
encouraged to re-submit it as an STS to the LPC.

*WHAT ELSE IS COMING* :
-- ICOTS9 is approaching in July 2014! see the website of the International 
Conference on
Teaching Statistics, http://icots.net/9, for details and updates.
-- Keep your eyes open for a separate announcement coming soon regarding the 
special 2-day
IASE Satellite conference to be held just before WSC60 in a different 
section of Rio on
July 24-25, 2014.
-- By Feb 2015: submit to WSC60 proposals for individual contributed papers 
and posters.

Thanks,

--Iddo

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Iddo Gal, PhD
President, Int'l Association for Statistical Education, IASE
Chair, Department of Human Services
University of Haifa, 31905 Haifa, Israel
E-mail: iddo@research.haifa.ac.il