As indicated in recent emails, the 2020 SSC Annual Meeting has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 epidemic.

All registration fees for the SSC conference and the allied CSSC conference are being refunded in full.  The CSSC 2020 has transitioned to an online conference hosted through Zoom and registration for the event is now free. 

As you can imagine, there are a number of costs being borne by the Society associated with the cancelled meeting. If you wish to donate a portion of your registration fee to the Society, to help defray these costs, there is a button to accommodate that on the form.

The tentative plan is to move as many of the invited sessions/talks as possible from the 2020 program to the 2021 meeting in St. John's. To date we have confirmation that the 2019 Gold Medal address by Bruno Rémillard, the 2019 Impact Award address by Belkacem Abdous, and the 2020 CRM-SSC Prize address will be presented at the 2021 meeting, together with addresses by the winners of the 2020 Gold Medal, the 2020 Impact Award winner, and the 2021 CRM-SSC Prize.

The only talks from the 2020 program that will be presented this June, in virtual format, are the presidential invited address, the Pierre Robillard Award address, and possibly the Canadian Journal of Statistics Award address. Details to follow.

The Biostatistics, Business and Industrial Statistics, Data Science and Analytics, Probability, and Survey Methods Sections will be running virtual workshops this year, details will be announced shortly. The Case Studies Competition will be held online.

We are currently working on the logistics and timing for conducting a virtual annual general meeting.

On behalf of all members of the SSC, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the 2020 local organizing committee, co-chaired by Shirley Mills and Yiqiang Zhao of Carleton University, the 2020 program committee and particularly the program chair J. C. Loredo-Osti of Memorial University of Newfoundland, our SSC office staff, Michelle Benoit and Marie-Pierre Nantel, our electronic services manager, Angelo Canty, and the many translators, section organizers and a host of others, who have worked so hard to put together what would have been a spectacular conference in Ottawa.

I look forward to seeing you all in person at the 2021 meeting in St. John's.