2011-2012 Schedule

• Wednesday May 9, 2012 at 6pm. Joint meeting of StatChat and the Twin Cities chapter of the American Statistical Association. Recent US Supreme Court Finding on Statistical Significance. At Augsburg College. See the abstract here.
• Monday May 7, 2012 Allan Rossman talk at University of Minnesota. 3:30pm in Room 325, Educational Sciences Building.
• Thursday March 8, 2012 at 6-8pm. Special Pot-Luck session with guest star Rob Gould, Educating Citizen Statisticians. See the full agenda here.
• Friday 24 February, 2012 at 3:00 pm. Michael Bulmer webinar on The Island: Letting Students Experiment and Collect Data. Recording of the webinar. Sponsored jointly by StatChat and Project MOSAIC.
• Friday 20 January, 2012 at 3:35pm. Charles Guyer on What Statistics 101 Doesn't Teach, But Should. Location: 131 Tate Laboratory of Physics, University of Minnesota, For more information, see this link.
• Friday 28 October, 2011, 1:30-3:00 Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics, Harvard University Statistical Education and Educating Statisticians: Producing wine connoisseurs and master winemakers Location: 325 Ed Sciences Bldg, University of Minnesota

  Xiao-Li will talk about his innovative course in intro stats as well as his program to prepare excellent teachers of statistics. (Some links: Xiao-Li's home page & Stat 105 at Harvard.)

  Following the talk, you are invited to stay on and visit with Xiao-Li as part of an informal social hour with our statistics education faculty and graduate students.

Archive from past seasons

• AY 2010-2011 Schedule
• AY 2009-2010 Schedule