Departmental News

2009

• Postgraduate Open Day 2009: The Department of Statistical Science invites all interested parties to attend the Postgraduate Open Day 2009 on 1 October 2009.

• New staff members that joined the department in 2009:  Anneli Hardy (Statistical Consulting Service; May 2009), A/Prof. Sugnet Lubbe (July 2009) and Miguel Lacerda (Lecturer; September 2009).

• Sichel Medal : 2009

The Sichel Medal is awarded annually by the South African Statistical Association for the best paper published in the previous year in a peer-reviewed journal and authored or co-authored by one or more of their members. The medal was instituted in  1997 in memory of Professor Herbert Sichel, a  Professor at WITS and one of the doyens of South African Statistics.

 

The winners this year, 2009,  were Legesse Debusho from the University of Pretoria and Linda Haines from UCT for their paper entitled "V- and D-optimal population designs for the simple linear regression model with a random intercept term'' which was published in the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference in 2008, Volume 138, pages 1116-–1130.   Much of the work for the paper was completed at UKZN while Legesse was a PhD student under Linda's supervision. The consolidation and write up of the study was done here at UCT where Linda is a staff member and at the University of Limpopo and later at the Pretoria University where Legesse is a staff member.

2008

• Three new lecturers have joined the department this year: Kutlwano Ramaboa, Greg Distiller and Melvin Varughese.          - April 2008

• At the 19th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) (Auckland, New Zealand, Jan 2008), Prof Theo Stewart was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Society on MCDM.  The citation reads: "As the highest honour that  the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making bestows upon a scholar who, over a distinguished career, has devoted much of his talent time and energy to advancing the field of MCDM, and who has markedly contributed to the theory, methodology and practice of MCDM".
  
  This award  is an extraordinary award, only rarely given, and was in addition to a second award, the Presidential Award, for service in office to the Society.              - January 2008

Other

• Some very useful Bio-informatics resources are now available for download:

  • Biometrics and Research Methods: Training Resource Workshop

  • "A First Course in Biometry for Agriculture Students" by AA Rayner: Table of contents and downloads

  • Biometry notes by HM Dicks

• Have a look at upcoming seminars.
  

• Have a look at vacancies.