The following is a list of events that are related to the academic development of statistics majored undergraduate students.
2020 Science Career Fair
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The 2020 Science Career Fair is focused on helping you find an internship, a first job, or your next job! The event is open to all current Ohio State students and recent alumni, but physical and life science majors are highly encouraged to attend.
Attending employers recruit across a broad range of disciplines, but the focus will be on careers in the Sciences. There will be a large number of private, non-profit, governmental sector companies recruiting for Interns, R&D developers, chemists, microbiologists, lab technicians & scientists, pharmaceutical researchers & sales, medical consulting & sales, GIS analysts, meteorologists, medical researchers, medical scribes, data scientists, geologists, software analysts, and many other related technical careers. In addition, there will likely be opportunities for technology, marketing, communications, business, data analytics, pharmacy, environmental sciences, and biological & biomedical engineering students.
Attending employers seek to fill full-time, entry-level positions, as well as summer internships. Advanced research via Handshake is recommended to determine if a particular employer of interest will be in attendance and a good match for you. Keep checking back, as employers are being added each week up to the event.
2020 UConn Sports Analytics Symposium
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Keynote Presentations
Thompson Bliss, Data Scientist, National Football League
Estimating the Impact of Travel, Rest, and Playing at Home in the National Football League
Ron Yurko, PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Going Deep: Models for Continuous-Time Within-Play Valuation of Game Outcomes in American Football with Tracking Data
Stephanie Kovalchik, PhD, Senior Data Scientist at Zelus Analytics
Making the Intangible Tangible: Using Mixture Models for Estimating Latent Quantities in Sports
ESPN Sports Analytics Team, ESPN
Poster Session
Training Workshops