Thursday 29 September 2016

TOTAL 2016/2017 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FOR 100L AND 200L STUDENTS

TOTAL 2016/2017 ELIGIBILITY
  1. Be a Registered FULL TIME undergraduate in a recognized Nigerian University
  2. Be a certified 100 or 200 level student at the time of application
  3. Show proof of SSCE or Equivalent Certificate.
  4. Show proof of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) score.
  5. Show proof of Admission letter from the University and Matriculation Number
  6. Show proof of A-level or Equivalent Certificate (for direct entry students)
PLEASE NOTE:
  • Students with less than 200 score in UTME need not apply
  • Students with less than 2.50 CGPA of 5-point scale, or equivalent
  • 300 level students and above need not apply
  • Current beneficiaries of similar awards from any other Company or Government Agency need not apply.
HOW TO APPLY

Personal Information: Enter your name, date of birth and permanent home address Upload your recent passport photograph. 2. Contact Information: Enter your email and mobile phone information. Only use an active email and mobile phone number.
3. Origin: Enter your state and local government of origin data. You are required to upload a certificate or proof of origin from your local government or state.
4. University Information: Select your university, course and year of study. You will be required to upload your JAMB/University admission letter.
5. Result Information: Input your JAMB score or CPGA. You are required to upload your JAMB statement of result and university CPGA. For year two medical students, your JAMB score suffices.
6. Review Application: Review your application ensure all fields have been correctly entered. Upload all the documents required:
  • Recent Passport Photograph
  • Certificate or Proof of Origin
  • Senior Secondary Certificate of Education (SSCE)
  • UTME result
  • JAMB/University Admission Letter
  • 1st Year Result showing CGPA
7. Conclusion: Attest that all info given is true. Accept terms and condition. On screen alert will confirm that you have successfully completed the application. You will receive an email to confirm this too.
 Source: https://scholarships.totalcsredu.com

Shell Nigeria Recruitment for General Practioners - 4 Positions

Shell Nigeria Recruitment for General Practioners - 4 Positions

Thursday 15 September 2016

ATBU 2016/2017 D.E ONLINE SCREENING UPDATE

D.E  candidates who applied in ATBU bauchi can now log in and proceed  with their online screening as Jamb had sent their updates to the school.
candidates can visit the school portal below for the online screening
ATBU
always visit our blog for updates and don't forget to comment below if you find the information useful. Thanks

Sunday 11 September 2016

NYSC BATCH B TIME TABLE 2016

The NYSC Batch B timetable for 2016 has been released, check it out below:
Display of list of all approved programmes for institutions on NYSC portal for cross checking and feedback 14th – 21st September 2016
2 Collation of Prospective Corps Members’ Data by Corps Producing Institutions CPIs 12th – 30th September 2016
3 Submission/Uploading of Senate/Academic Board Approved Results for Full/Part-Time Graduates and Revalidation Lists by CPIs 3rd – 8th October 2016
4 Uploading of Corrected Lists by Corps Producing Institutions 8th – 14th October 2016
5 On-line Registration by Foreign and locally Trained Nigerian Graduates 17th October – 12th November 2016
6 Entertainment of complaints from Prospective Corps Members by the state Deployment and Relocation officers and NYSC Help Lines/Desks officers. 17th October – 12th November, 2016
7 Forwarding of Complaints to Mobilisation Dept by State Deployment and Relocation officers 17th October – 12th November, 2016
8 Deployment and Printing of Call-up Letters by ICT Department 14th – 19th November, 2016
9 Notification/On-line Printing of Call-up Letters/Delivery of Call-up letters to Institutions 21st – 25th November, 2016
10 On-line Printing of Deployment Disposition by Corps Producing Institutions CPIs 21st – 25th November, 2016

Friday 9 September 2016

WORKERS BLOCK ROAD IN KADUNA

Yesterday, the popular Barnawa road in Kaduna state was blocked with refuse dump in protest for non payment of employees. According to reports, governor Nasir Elrufai has not paid the workers he employed to evacuate the refuse dump in Kaduna and in protest to that, the employees poured the wastes on the road and blocked from using the road.

See photos below

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/09/photos-workers-block-major-road-in.html

Thursday 8 September 2016

2016 INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS





 
 




























 












2016 Meetings Around the World

IMS Annual Meeting

July 11, 2016 – July 15, 2016
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(IMS Sponsored Meeting)



January

January 25, 2016 – January 27, 2016
Lunteren, The Netherlands
15th winter school on mathematical finance with minicourses by Dirk Becherer and Fred Espen Benth, special invited lectures by Nicole Bäuerle, Sara Biagini and Thorsten Schmidt.


February

February 21, 2016 – February 23, 2016
Osaka, Osaka, Japan
The AQFC has been an annual international conference since 2013. The aim of the conference is to feature the latest developments in the field of quantitative finance and promote its research in Asia. It also hopes to bring together researchers as well as practitioners on quantitative finance in Asia and elsewhere and provide a platform for interaction and cooperation. There will be plenary talks as well as contributed talks.


March

March 1, 2016 – March 4, 2016
Bochum, Germany
The DMV-Fachgruppe Stochastik organizes jointly with the Ruhr-Universität Bochum the 12th German Probability and Statistics Days 2016 – Bochumer Stochastik-Tage. In the tradition of the previous conferences, this meeting provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of new results in the area of probability and statistics. Contributed talks will be given in 12 sections devoted to specific topics; the highlight of each section will be one invited main talk.
March 16, 2016 – March 19, 2016
College Park, MD, Maryland
Participants are encouraged to give a short talk or present a poster or an open problem. The local organizers are Sandra Cerrai, Dmitry Dolgopyat, Mark Freidlin and Leonid Koralov.
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)


April

April 1, 2016 – April 2, 2016
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Information-Theoretic Methods of Inference Workshop Objectives and Topics The objective of this workshop is to study new methods of statistical inference based on information-theoretic methods. Info-metric and Information-Theoretic ideas are being applied in variety of disciplines, such as biology, ecology, economics, finance and physics (for examples see Fall 2014 conference celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Institute). The Spring 2016 workshop focuses on the use of info-metric and information-theoretic ideas in the development and
April 4, 2016 – April 8, 2016
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
This workshop focuses on numerical methods and mathematical analysis for non­spatial stochastic dynamical models that arise in molecular biology. New experimental techniques at a molecular level boosted the interest for such models in recent years, for example for gene regulatory networks, biochemical signaling and transduction cascades, molecular motors, and morphogenesis.
April 4, 2016 – April 8, 2015
Lancaster, United Kingdom
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Amanda Turner
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
April 5, 2016 – April 8, 2016
Lausanne, Switzerland
Uncertainty quantification is critical to achieving validated predictive computations in a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. The field relies on a broad range of mathematics and statistics foundations, with associated algorithmic and computational development. This conference will bring together mathematicians, statisticians, scientists, and engineers with an interest in development and implementation of uncertainty quantification methods.
April 8, 2016 – April 8, 2016
New York, NY, USA
Main Speakers: Rick Kenyon (Brown), Joel Lebowitz (Rutgers), Allan Sly (Berkeley), Peter Winkler (Dartmouth); Junior Speakers: Guillaume Barraquand (Columbia), Hao Shen (Columbia). Registration is free on the probability day website.
April 25, 2016 – April 27, 2016
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Participants will be introduced to the discrete graph theory methods and models of structured population as well as classical continuous models based on differential equations. They will learn how to use such methods and/or build and analyze models in the context of the tutorial's topics and will work in small groups to experience how to use the methodology to describe, simulate, and analyze the relevant biological systems. Participants will be exposed to software that implements the mathematical methods, aids visualization, and facilitates computations and analyses. Participants will learn how the tutorial materials may fit into mathematics and biology courses or be used as an introduction to independent studies or undergraduate research.


May

May 2, 2016 – May 6, 2016
Toronto, Canada
The workshop presents recent results in areas related to heavy tails, extremes and dependence, including topics on a) weak convergence for heavy tailed dependent processes and time series; b) stationary and stable processes; c) stable random fields; d) regular variation and heavy tails; e) complex stochastic systems: random matrices and random networks with heavy tails. The workshop will feature 4 expository lectures by Gennady Samorodnitsky and Clément Dombry on related background for graduate students and people interested in these areas, and include around 20 talks on recent research advances by well-established or young researchers. There are also a few open problem sessions and a poster session. Funding opportunities are available, with priority given to graduate students and junior researchers.
May 6, 2016 – May 8, 2016
Evanston, Illinois, USA
This conference is part of the 2015/2016 emphasis year in probability theory. It is jointly hosted by Women in Probability.
May 9, 2016 – May 11, 2016
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
The purpose of this meeting is to bring together mathematicians, both regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its applications.
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Ed Waymire
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
May 9, 2016 – May 12, 2016
Austin, Texas, USA
This is the third in a series of meetings organized at UT Austin on related topics, alternating yearly in an emphasis on mathematics one year, and on network applications the next. The 2016 workshop will again be on the mathematics of stochastic processes and graphs, this time focusing on the studies of processes in, and on, large graphs. Our aim is to bring together a diverse set of eminent researchers from various communities in this broad subject, to give a global picture which will hopefully lead to interactions and cross-fertilization.
May 17, 2016 – May 20, 2016
Leiden, The Netherlands
Main invited speakers: Antoine Ayache, Martin Grothaus, Jun Kigami, Virginia Kiryakova, Anatoly Kochubei, Vassili Kolokoltsov, Yurii Kondratiev, Takashi Kumagai, Nikolai Leonenko, Jacques Lévy Véhel, Yuri Luchko, Francesco Mainardi, Enzo Orsingher, Mark Podolskij, Igor Podlubny, Maria Dolorez Ruiz-Medina, Gennady Samorodnitsky, Murad Taqqu, Tommi Sottinen. For more information, particularities and registration, see the website. Organizers: Yuliya Mishura, Grygoriy Torbin , Georgiy Shevchenko, Peter Spreij, Martina Zähle.
May 18, 2016 – May 21, 2016
Cappadocia, Turkey
As part of the conference, IC-SMHD-2016 will feature a Festschrift honoring Prof. Dr. Hamparsum (Ham) Bozdogan, Toby McKenzie Professor at the University of Tennessee, for his outstanding contributions not just to the domain of information complexity and model selection enterprise in high-dimensions, but also to his international outreach contributions in disseminating statistical knowledge to the young future scholars from many different countries, including Turkey.
May 25, 2016 – May 27, 2016
Chicago, Illinois, USA
SRC has a history of more than two decades, and continues to explore many important topics, including statistical methodologies and theories on design and analysis of experiments, uncertainty quantification, computer experiments and statistical computing, applications of data science in business, industry and government policy making, methods on quality improvement and measurement system, etc. This year’s keynote speakers are Jeff Wu from Georgia Tech, Henry Wynn from London School of Economics, and Dennis Lin from Penn State.
May 28, 2016 – May 29, 2016
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye
International Workshop on Mathematics and Statistics is a peer reviewed academic event held annually. IWMST-2016 is organized by Scientific Cooperations and aims to increase the collaboration among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in Mathematics and Statistics through scientific publications. The workshop is a part of International Conference of Basic Sciences which consists of three separate workshops of different disciplines.
May 31, 2016 – June 4, 2016
Austin, Texas, USA
The conference will feature Professor Sayan Mukherjee from Duke University as the principal lecturer, and five additional featured speakers including Professors Rabi Bhattacharya, Susan Holmes, Ann Lee, Lek-Heng Lim and Yusu Wang. This conference will introduce graduate students and junior researchers to TDA, an active new field, which lies at the exciting intersection of topology, geometry, and statistics and serve as an opportunity to foster research collaborations.
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
May 31, 2016 – June 4, 2016
Austin, Texas, USA
UT-Austin is hosting a five-day conference on Topological Data Analysis (TDA): Topology, Geometry and Statistics. The conference will feature Professor Sayan Mukherjee from Duke University as the principal lecturer, who will deliver a series of tutorial lectures on TDA. Five additional featured speakers including Professors Rabi Bhattacharya, Susan Holmes, Ann Lee, Lek-Heng Lim and Yusu Wang, will give additional talks on topics such as TDA in Machine learning, Statistics and Geometry, application of TDA in biomedical fields.


June

June 1, 2016 – June 4, 2016
Berlin, Germany
The workshop, which is jointly organized by Humboldt University Berlin and Technical University Berlin, provides a forum for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and young faculty members from all over the world to discuss their research in an informal atmosphere.
June 5, 2016 – June 10, 2016
Sandbjerg Estate, Sønderborg, Denmark
This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together scientists from integral geometry, geometric probability, geometric measure theory, stochastic geometry, stereology, applied probability, spatial statistics and bioimaging. An important scope of the workshop is to discuss recent theoretical advances in stochastic geometry and their potential for applications. The workshop will celebrate the scientific achievements of AU professor Eva B. Vedel Jensen.
June 6, 2016 – June 10, 2016
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
After five groundbreaking conferences at Penn State, Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, June 6 to 10, 2016. This meeting will continue the interdisciplinary tradition of its predecessors, bringing together researchers in astronomy, cosmology, statistics, and machine learning to facilitate progress on the significant data analysis challenges that result from current and future astronomical sky surveys. Abstracts will be accepted for contributed talks and for posters.
June 10, 2016 – June 11, 2016
Pavia, Italy
The conference will honor Eugenio Regazzini on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It will take place at the University of Pavia, Italy, on June 10-11, 2016. The program will feature invited talks of authoritative speakers who have been working on topics related to the ones Eugenio has contributed to in Statistics, Probability and Mathematical Physics. IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Antonio Lijoi and Pietro Rigo
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
June 11, 2016 – June 16, 2016
Avignon, France
The 3rd ISNPS conference will put together recent advances and trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics. This conference will be a perfect place to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration between researchers from all over the world and contribute to the further development of the field.
June 12, 2016 – June 18, 2016
Snowbird, Utah, USA
The conference on Algebraic Statistics is one of 4 MRCs for early-career mathematicians run by the American Mathematical Society. Funded by NSF, MRCs foster the formation of self-sustaining cohorts of mathematical scientists centered on research areas of common interest. The program provides participants travel, room, and board at the conference site and supports subsequent travel to the Joint Mathematics Meetings and a limited number of follow-up collaboration gatherings. Applications are accepted from November 1, 2015 to March 1, 2016.
June 12, 2016 – June 18, 2016
Svetlogorsk, Russia
Seminars on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models have a long tradition. They were started by Prof. Vladimir Zolotarev in the 1970’s. The seminars are attended by leading probabilists from all over the world. The Seminars traditionally aim at bringing together people from Eastern and Western parts of Europe to share their expertise, new results, exchange the ideas and discuss open problems. In this century Seminars took place in Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain, Latvia, Italy, Israel, Romania, Poland, Norway and Russia.
June 12, 2016 – June 15, 2016
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
You are cordially invited to 2016 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium in Atlanta! The city of Atlanta enjoys a mild climate throughout the year, and is accessible from most cities across the North America. Keynote Speakers for the 2016 Applied Statistics Symposium will be Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley and David Madigan, University of Columbia Banquet Speaker will be Michael Eriksen, Georgia State University. Details are forthcoming on the symposium website. Details of the scientific programs are on the symposium website.
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Yichuan Zhao 
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
June 15, 2016 – June 18, 2016
Cartagena, Colombia
The event covers diverse areas of quantitative finance and actuarial science. Also, the Congress would provide space to debate on topics related to these areas. Topics of interest are teaching, research, technical regulation and business practice in Andean and Caribbean regions, and its inter-relation with the rest of the world.
June 19, 2016 – June 22, 2016
Santander, Spain
The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) is the premier forecasting conference, attracting the world’s leading forecasting researchers, practitioners, and students. Through a combination of keynote speaker presentations, academic sessions, workshops, and social programs, the ISF provides many excellent opportunities for networking, learning, and fun.
June 20, 2016 – June 22, 2016
Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
This conference is held in memory of Evarist Giné (1944-2015), who was an influential, brilliant and prolific contributor to modern probability theory and mathematical statistics, with a focus on problems arising in infinite-dimensional settings. His work has had a profound impact on modern probability theory, mathematical statistics and recently also machine learning. The workshop will highlight recent activities in the areas Evarist worked in, as well as memorial sessions to celebrate his mathematical achievements.
June 20, 2016 – June 24, 2016
La Jolla, California, USA
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Haya Kaspi, Amber Puha, & Ruth Williams
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
June 21, 2016 – June 24, 2016
Berkeley, CA, USA
This four-day series of academic workshops addresses algorithmic and statistical challenges in modern large-scale data analysis. The goals of this series of workshops are to explore novel techniques for modeling and analyzing massive, high-dimensional, and non-linearly structured scientific and internet data sets and to bring together computer scientists, statisticians, mathematicians, and data analysis practitioners to promote the cross-fertilization of ideas.
June 22, 2016 – June 24, 2016
Magdeburg, Germany
Contributed poster presentations are highly welcome and can be submitted before May 1st. Registration is open until May 15th, but please note that the number of particpants is limited and registration is on a first come first serve basis. More information including a list of speakers can be found on the workshop webpage.
June 23, 2016 – June 25, 2016
Xuzhou, China
The international workshop on Mathematical Reliability and Safety (MRS 2016) aims to bring active experts in various fields including reliability theory, risk management, statistics, and safety to exchange the newest developments, and promote advances in reliability and safety. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Reliability theory; Stochastic orders; Risk and security; Extreme value theory; Order statistics; Dependence modeling.
June 25, 2016 – July 6, 2016
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The summer school has two themes with the following speakers: 1. Informational and Imperfect Financial Markets (June 25 to June 29): Marek Rutkowski (University of Sydney), Agnès Sulem (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt), and Thaleia Zariphopoulou (University of Texas at Austin) 2. Market Microstructure and Algorithmic Trading (July 2 to July 6): Robert Almgren (Quantitative Brokers), Alvaro Cartea (University of Oxford), and Sebastian Jaimungal (University of Toronto)
June 27, 2016 – June 30, 2016
Hong Kong, China
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics Asia Pacific Rim Meeting series promotes interaction and networking among statisticians and probabilitists from Asia, the Pacific Rim, and other parts of the world. The previous three meetings were successfully held in Seoul, Tsukuba, and Taipei. We are pleased to announce that the fourth meeting will take place on the beautiful campus of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, during the period of June 27–30, 2016. The program covers recent developments and the state-of-the-art in a variety of modern research topics in statistics and probability. For more information, you may contact the program chairs: Ming-Yen Cheng (cheng@math.ntu.edu.tw) and Xuming He (xmhe@umich.edu).
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
June 27, 2016 – July 1, 2016
Barcelona, Spain
The Barcelona Summer School on Stochastic Analysis is a one-week scientific activity consisting mainly of courses addressed to PhD students and young researchers on current research topics in Stochastic Analysis. Selected participants are also given the opportunity to deliver short talks or to display posters.
June 27, 2016 – June 30, 2016
Copenhagen, Denmark
The bienniel NORDSTAT conference is organized under the auspices of the Nordic and Baltic statistical societies. This year the Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics is organizing the meeting at the North Campus of University of Copenhagen. Abstract submission deadline: March 13. Early bird registration: April 11.


July

July 7, 2016 – July 9, 2016
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The primary purpose of the Sixth IMS-FIPS Workshop is to bring together a global cast of leading academic experts, practitioners and junior researchers to share research that underscores the contributions of probability and statistics to the development of quantititative models, methods, techniques and technologies in the fields of finance and insurance.
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
July 10, 2016 – July 13, 2016
Tinos, Greece
Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 April 2016 The three short courses will be given by: *Eric Moulines on When Langevin Meets Markov . *Yee Whye Tee on Scalable Methods for Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning. *George Michalidis on Modeling, computation, inference and applications of graphical models.
July 10, 2016 – July 15, 2016
​Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The conference will be held at the Victoria Conference Centre, adjacent to the famous Empress Hotel.
(IMS Sponsored Meeting)
July 11, 2016 – July 15, 2016
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Scientific Program Chair, Alison Etheridge
Local Organizing Chair, Tom Salisbury
(IMS Sponsored Meeting)
July 25, 2016 – July 29, 2016
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
An exciting interdisciplinary five-day workshop to introduce a one month long research program on causal inference in genetics.
July 25, 2016 – July 27, 2016
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Our 2.5-day workshop will bring together a diverse group of faculty from the field of algebraic and discrete mathematical biology to address the need to develop educational resources by: 1) surveying existing educational resources in discrete and algebraic mathematical biology; 2) identifying topics appropriate for undergraduates not yet featured in the existing literature; 3) identifying target courses in the mathematics and biology curricula that would benefit most from featuring those topics; 4) initiating the development of new curricular materials and ultimately publishing the materials for those topics; 5) facilitating the growth of a community of faculty actively involved in creating and using curricular resources for algebraic mathematical biology.
July 28, 2016 – July 30, 2016
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
The purpose of the conference is to promote interaction and networking among new researchers in these fields. Deadline for application is February 27.
(IMS Sponsored Meeting)
July 30, 2016 – August 4, 2016
Chicago, Ilinois, USA

(IMS Sponsored Meeting)


August

August 1, 2016 – August 3, 2016
Ilulissat, Greenland
If you have emergent questions, please contact Søren Asmussen, asmus@math.au.dk
August 7, 2016 – August 10, 2016
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
The 3 day conference will run from August 8th to 10th and will have 9 invited sessions, contributed sessions and 3 plenary speakers: Regina Liu (Rutgers University, USA), Fabrizio Ruggeri (Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Italy), and Bo Henry Lindqvist (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway). In addition there will be a student workshop in two parts given by Udo Kamps (RWTH Aachen, Germany) and Barry Arnold (University of California at Riverside, USA) on August 7th.
August 8, 2016 – August 12, 2016
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
This tutorial will review the basics of theory in the field of evolutionary quantitative genetics and its connections to evolution observed at various time scales.
August 14, 2016 – August 19, 2016
Stanford, California, USA
This multidisicplinary conference focuses on the following topics: Monte Carlo, quasi-Monte Carlo, Markov chain Monte Carlo; Digital nets and lattice rules; Discrepancy theory; Complexity and tractability of multivariate problems; Multi-level Monte Carlo; Sequential Monte Carlo and particle methods; Rare event simulation; Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo; Variance reduction methods; MC/QMC methods in physics, chemistry, finance, computer graphics and other areas.
August 15, 2016 – August 19, 2016
Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark
The field of nonlinear statistics (NS) seeks to answer the fundamental questions that arise when defining new statistical models and tools in nonlinear spaces. The field spans from theoretical statistics and geometry to the development of data analysis tools that are directly applicable to actual data. A typical application area is bioimaging.
August 17, 2016 – August 19, 2016
Maastricht, The Netherlands
This conference continues a series of conferences on small area estimation that have been organized annually at different places around the world. It will give researchers and practitioners from all over the world an opportunity to exchange information or learn about state-of-the-art small area estimation techniques. So far small area estimation has predominantly been an academic area of research. The aim of this conference is to give more attention to applications and implementation in government agencies.
August 18, 2016 – August 21, 2016
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Statistical and Data Sciences: A key to healthy people, planet and prosperity. The 2016 International Indian Statistical Association Conference will be held in Corvallis, Oregon August 18–21, 2016. It will bring together statisticians worldwide from academia, industry, government, and research institutes.
August 22, 2016 – August 23, 2016
Leuven, Belgium
The main theme is how to deal with the effects of model selection on further inference, this in various settings, using several estimation and selection methods. Speakers include: F. Bachoc (Toulouse), A. Charkhi (KU Leuven), N.L. Hjort (Oslo), D. Kozbur (ETH Zurich), D. Rothenhäusler (ETH Zurich), U. Schneider (Vienna), J. Taylor (Stanford), X. Tian (Stanford).
August 24, 2016 – August 26, 2016
Kerman, Iran
The Conference will be organized by Iranian Statistical Society,Scheduled every two years, the conference is a major Iranian event for statistics and probability, covering all their branches, including theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, and stochastic processes.
August 30, 2016 – September 2, 2016
Utrecht, Netherlands
Confirmed invited speakers are Henk Bruin, Vilmos Komornik, Derong Kong, Wenxia Li, Joerg Thuswaldner and Reem Yassawi.
August 31, 2016 – September 2, 2016
London, London, United Kingdom
The conference will focus on three themes of time-to-event analyses, all of which concentrate on population-based data and translational epidemiology: 1. Recent methodological developments in competing risks and net survival 2. Hierarchical and correlated data in survival and longitudinal analysis 3. Causal inference in longitudinal settings with time-dependent confounding The conference will include world-renowned invited speakers as well as oral and poster communications.


September

September 5, 2016 – September 8, 2016
Manchester, United Kingdom
Now in its 24th year, the conference has a focus on current statistical issues and fosters the exchange of ideas and information. Plenary speakers in 2016 will include Christl Donnelly (Imperial College London), Anne Glover (former Chief Scientific Adviser, European Commission) and Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University). This annual conference regularly attracts over 450 participants from all over the world, ranging from senior academic statisticians through to new graduates and postgraduate students. The host city is 2016 European City of Science.
September 6, 2016 – September 10, 2016
Minsk, Belarus
Titles of sessions: Robust and Nonparametric Data Analysis; Multivariate Analysis; Statistical Analysis of Time Series and Spatial Data; Probabilistic and Statistical Analysis of Discrete Data; Asymptotic Methods in Stochastics; Econometric Modeling and Financial Mathematics; Survey Analysis and Official Statistics; Data Mining. Proceedings will be published before the Conference; extended versions of the selected papers will be published in Special issues of some journals after the Conference.
September 7, 2016 – September 10, 2016
Almaty, Kazakhstan
The aim of the International Conference on Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICAAM) is to bring mathematicians working in the area of analysis and applied mathematics together to share new trends of applications of mathematics. We plan to found the conference series to provide a forum for researches and scientists to communicate their recent developments and to present their original results in various fields of analysis and applied mathematics
September 15, 2016 – September 16, 2016
Ghent, Belgium
The Flexible Statistical Modeling: past, present and future (FSM2016) workshop will take place the 15 and 16 September 2016 in the beautiful city of Ghent in Belgium. This workshop brings together international researchers in the field of flexible modeling to share their latest results. The purposes are to stimulate research in this field, identify interesting new problems and applications, and foster dialogue and future research collaborations. The program includes 3 plenary talks, 8 invited talks and 2 young researcher talks.
September 22, 2016 – September 23, 2016
Boulder, Colorado, USA
The Climate Informatics workshop series, now in its sixth year, seeks to bring together researchers from all of these areas. We aim to stimulate the discussion of new ideas, foster new collaborations, grow the climate informatics community, and thus accelerate discovery across disciplinary boundaries. Since earth system sciences can be brought to bear on the study of climate, the scope of the workshop also includes data science approaches to problems at the nexus of climate and the earth system sciences.
September 26, 2016 – September 27, 2016
Munich, Germany
The 7th CEQURA Conference on Advances in Financial and Insurance Risk Management, organized by the Society for Financial and Insurance Econometrics and in collaboration with the Montreal Institute of Structured Products and Derivatives and the Bayerisches Finanz Zentrum, provides a platform for presenting and discussing current developments in research and industry, and fosters the exchange between academics and practitioners from the risk management community.
September 30, 2016 – October 2, 2016
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
The Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference (WHOA-PSI) seeks to showcase the exciting new ideas coming out of the post-selection inference framework and investigate how tools from higher-order asymptotics can both elucidate important properties of post-selection inference procedures, as well as suggest new directions which may ultimately yield more accurate small-sample performance.
September 30, 2016 – October 1, 2016
Davis, California, USA
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Hans-Georg Müller Web page: under construction
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)


October

October 6, 2016 – October 7, 2016
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
The main goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in the development of nonparametric theory and methods or innovative applications from different sub-fields of statistics for stimulating interactions. Plenary lectures are given by Peter Bickel, Raymond Carroll, David Ruppert and Jane-Ling Wang.
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Naisyin Wang 
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
October 12, 2016 – October 14, 2016
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
The conference will honor Prof. Jayaram Sethuraman’s contribution to foundational issues in latent variables research. In addition to a plenary talk by Prof. Sethuraman, there will be four plenary talks. The conference will also feature 6 pairs of concurrent sessions, each with 3 speakers, with each speaker giving 25-30 minute talks.
October 13, 2016 – October 14, 2016
Poznan, Poland
European R users meeting (eRum) is an international conference that aims at integrating users of the R language. eRum 2016 will be a good chance to exchange experiences, broaden knowledge on R and collaborate. One can participate in eRum 2016: (1) with a regular oral presentation, (2) with a lightning talk, (3) with a poster presentation, (4) or attending without presentation or poster. Due to space available at the conference venue, organizers set limit of participants at 250.
October 14, 2016 – October 16, 2016
Niagara Falls, Canada
This international conference is being organized to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss recent advancements on statistical distributions and their applications, and to provide opportunities for collaborative work. The scopes of ICOSDA 2016 include, but not limited to statistical distributions and their applications; statistical modeling; high dimensional data analysis; and Bayesian statistics. The conference presenters are invited to submit their articles for consideration of publication in a special issue of the Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications (http://www.JSDAjournal.com/). The submitted papers will go through the same rigorous peer review process as regular submissions. Accepted papers will receive at least 50% discount of Article Processing Charge (APC). A limited number of accepted articles may receive full APC waiver.
October 15, 2016 – October 15, 2016
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
The conference will consist of a few talks, with some short comments and introductions in between, and will include the inaugural Fienberg lecture.
October 21, 2016 – October 23, 2016
La Jolla, California, USA
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Dimitris Politis, Ruth Williams Web page: under construction
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)


November

November 7, 2016 – November 9, 2016
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Our workshop will help unlock the conservation potential of genomics research, and ensure that genetic and non-genetic factors are considered in quantitative fashion when evaluating and managing wild and cultivated species. More broadly, we will lay a foundation for developing new theory and approaches for describing, quantifying, and interpreting the complex, multidimensional information contained in biodiversity datasets.
November 18, 2016 – November 19, 2016
Ghaziabad (Delhi NCR), Uttar Pradesh, India
The Conference aims at creating a competent forum to bring Academicians, researchers, Industry professionals from all across the world to bring together & share their experience, work, research outcomes from various parts of the world on a global forum.This Conference includes all major topics of Mathematical Sciences, Statistical Sciences & Computer Sciences.


December

December 4, 2016 – December 9, 2016
Atlantic City, NJ, United States
The program will be on our website by June 1st. The 3-day conference (with poster sessions) provides a learning experience on recent developments in statistical methodologies. It’s followed by 2 parallel 2-day short courses. The conference at the Tropicana Casino Resort consists of 12 3-hour tutorials on current applied biostatistical topics based on recently published books that are sold at a ~40% discount. Attendees receive bound presentation proceedings. Walter Young has chaired this conference for 47 consecutive years.
December 5, 2016 – December 9, 2016
Canberra, Australia
The major focus of the conference will be Big Data: Mining, Analysing and Teaching. It aims to bring together the statistical approaches to data analysis with the techniques of data mining and their use in teaching statistics. Application to Big Data will be of particular interest.
December 5, 2016 – December 9, 2016
San José, Costa Rica
The Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM) is the main event in probability and statistics in the region, having been held roughly every two or three years for almost 30 years. It is organized under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the SLAPEM (Latin-American Society on Probability and Mathematical Statistics). On this ocassion the event is organized by the Universidad de Costa Rica, the Universidad Nacional and the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica.
December 5, 2016 – December 9, 2016
Canberra, Australia
The 23rd Australian Statistical Conference which is to be held in conjunction with the 14th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM) and the 9th Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics (OZCOTS) will provide unique insight into statistics, data mining and statistics teaching. The major focus of the conference will be Big Data: Mining, Analysing and Teaching. It aims to bring together the statistical approaches to data analysis with the techniques of data mining and their use in teaching statistics. Application to Big Data will be of particular interest.
December 10, 2016 – December 12, 2016
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
This workshop will gather friends and colleagues of Peter to celebrate this exceptional man and his unique contributions to statistics.
December 12, 2016 – December 15, 2016
Multan, Pakistan
For more information please contact Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aslam Adeeb (Conference Coordinator), aslamadib@yahoo.com or Mr. Ali Asad (Conference Secretary), aliasadncba@gmail.com
December 15, 2016 – December 17, 2016
Taipei, Taiwan
Experimentation is one of the most common activities in scientific researches and industrial processes. An experiment is cost-efficient only when it is carefully designed and its results are correctly analyzed. The CEDA 2016 will highlight the most recent advances in the design and analysis of experiments and demonstrate their applicability to practitioners in scientific and industrial communities. In addition, it provides an excellent platform to share research ideas among senior mentors, junior researchers and Ph.D. students/graduates.
December 19, 2016 – December 22, 2016
Chennai, India
The second international conference and workshop on Statistical Methods in Finance aims to expose the participants to new and active areas of research and to engage researchers into working groups. The conference is jointly organized by Indian Statistical Institute and Chennai Mathematical Institute with support from International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics.
December 19, 2016 – December 22, 2016
Shanghai, China
IMS Representative(s) on Program Committees: Ming Yuan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(IMS Co-sponsored Meeting)
December 21, 2016 – December 23, 2016
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
The three-day Conference being organized by Department of Statistics, Calcutta University to celebrate its Platinum Jubilee in 2016, will offer a common platform to statisticians engaged in applied research, to interact and exchange ideas. The main focus will lie on: (i) Design of Experiments in Agriculture and Industry (ii) Survey sampling and official statistics (iii) Biostatistics (iv) Applications of Statistics in Soocial Sciences (v) Applications of Statistics in Industry (vi) Applications of Statistics in Physical Sciences

2016 HEALTHY MEAL PLAN

7-Day Heart-Healthy Meal Plan

EatingWell's 7-Day Heart-Healthy Meal Plan provides an overall healthy-eating program at five different daily caloric levels: 1,200, 1,400, 1,600, 1,800 and 2,000. The menus are packed with nutrient-rich foods, including whole grains, lean meats, low-fat dairy and plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. The program also meets nutritional criteria specific to people with cardiovascular disease or those hoping to prevent its development. Find the right calorie level for you »

EatingWell 7 Day Heart-Healthy Meal Plan

 Day Heart Healthy 1200 calorie menu - Day 1

  • Breakfast

    • 1 Cup Skim Milk
    • 1 Orange, medium
    • 1 Cup Cheerios Cereal
  • Morning Snack

    • 1 Cup Cantaloupe Melon
  • Lunch

  • Afternoon Snack

    • 2 Tablespoons Prepared Hummus
    • 4 Ounces Carrot Sticks
  • Dinner

2016/2017 ATBU ADMISSION SCFREENING (D.E STUDENTS TO HOLD ON)

Procedure for 2016/2017 Undergraduate Admission Screening Exercise

PROCEDURE FOR 2016/2017 ADMISSION SCREENING EXERCISE

This is to inform all candidates who applied for admission into degree programmes of ATBU Bauchi for the 2016/2017 Academic Session as First or Second choice and have scored 180 and above in the UTME, and a minimum of Lower Credit / Merit grade in Diploma from a recognized polytechnic accredited by NABTEB, 9 Points in NCE/IJMB, that there will be online screening which commences on 24th August and ends on 9th September 2016.
NOTES:
  1. The following courses have NOT been accredited so therefore candidate who choose any of these courses should hold on till further notice.
    • Architecture
    • Building Technology
    • Surveying and Geoinformatics
    • Industrial Design
    • Automobile Technology Education
    • Building Technology Education
    • Electrical Electronics Education
    • Business Education
    • Integrated Science Education
  2. Direct Entry (DE) students should hold on as their records are being expected within the week from JAMB.

Procedure for screening:

  1. Candidates should visit ATBU website, locate and click on the 2016/2017 ATBU Screening red link / button at the bottom - left below the slider of the Home Page. This opens the 2016/2017 Screening Procedure Page where you can proceed for login.
  2. Click Login, this will take you to a page where you are to provide a valid JAMB Number as a Username and Click the Login button. Generate your Remita Retrieval Reference Number (RRR) and proceed to any bank for payment or you can pay using a credit or debit card.
  3. After payment, revisit the Portal to login to your account, fill the Screening Form accordingly and upload your passport photograph.
  4. After submitting the form, Print a copy of the Acknowledgement Slip for future reference.
  5. List of eligible candidates who have met the requirements from amongst those who have registered will be displayed on the website in due course. Candidates are expected to frequently visit the website www.atbu.edu.ng for updated information.
  6. The successful candidates will be invited for physical screening in a date to be announced later.

SGD

A.G. Hassan

Registrar

source: http://www.atbu.edu.ng/#/ug/screeningprocedure

2016 NDLEA RECRUITMENT



NDLEA commences recruitmen


minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the federal government has approved the recruitment of 5000 staff in the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), in addition to 10,000 in 2017.
Malami, who spoke at the ECOWAS ministers meeting, said there are plans by the federal government to improve the capacity of the agency in relation to fighting crimes in the region. Malami, who urged member countries’ ministers to adopt the new ECOWAS Regional Drug Action Plan, for the year 2016-2020, said it provides a road map and working document for the ECOWAS drug control team.
“We see and applaud that kind of political commitment in the region. We also want to see the translation of political commitment into real actions,” Ugbe said.
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Source: http://nigerianuniversityscholarships.com/ndlea-commences-recruitment-share/

Wednesday 7 September 2016

2016 LATEST SONGS



We'll make sure you're the first to know about the top 2016 new releases in the world of music. So whether you're in the mood for some banging party songs or something a little more chilled, we'll make sure you're covered with all the best from the UK top 40.
There are a LOT of September 2016 new released songs just waiting for you to download them.
Start the month off right with Sia releasing her top tune 'The Greatest' feat. Kendrick Lamar early on in the month.
We will be bringing you the newest songs from around the world in the UK's first real-time new music chart including Mike Posner's 'Be As You Are' and DNCE's new hit 'Toothbrush'.
New music from Zara Larsson should be arriving in the form of 'Ain't My Fault'.
Guess what!? At the tail end of the month, Vodafone Breaker Anne-Marie will be back with her follow up single 'Breathing Fire'.

Read more at http://www.bigtop40.com/songs/#htrGkMzUi2GfdMLW.99

 SOURCE: http://www.bigtop40.com/songs/

Tuesday 6 September 2016

N-POWER 2016 APPLICATION UPDATE


 N-Power Programme - The application period for the N-Power Programme has ended. Verification and assessment will commence immediately. We appeal to all applicants to be patient during this process. The N-Power Programme team will be in touch regarding assessment and eventual enrolment. Information will be available on this website and on the N-Power social media platforms on Twitter and Facebook.

If you have any concerns or questions, please contact us via email: info@npower.gov.ng

Click here for more information

Saturday 3 September 2016

ATBU 2016/2017 ADMISSION UPDATE

 ATBU 2016/2017 ADMISSION
  This is to inform all candidates who applied for admission into degree programmes of ATBU
Bauchi for the 2016/2017 Academic Session as First or Second choice and have scored 180
and above in the UTME, and a minimum of Lower Credit / Merit grade in Diploma from a
recognized polytechnic accredited by NABTEB, 9 Points in NCE/IJMB, that there will be online
screening which commences on 24th August and ends on 9th September 2016.
NOTE: The following courses have NOT been accredited so therefore candidate who choose any
of these courses should hold on till further notice.
Architecture
Building Technology
Surveying and Geo-informatics
Industrial Design
Automobile Technology Education
Building Technology Education
Electrical Electronics Education
Business Education
Integrated Science Education
A. Procedure for screening:
1. Candidates should visit ATBU website, locate and click on the 2016/2017 ATBU
Screening menu at the top right of the Home Page. This opens the 2016/2017 Screening
Page where you can proceed for login.
2. Click Login, this will take you to a page where you are to provide a valid JAMB Number
as a Username and Click the Login button. Generate your Remita Retrieval Reference
Number (RRR) and proceed to any bank for payment or you can pay using a credit or
debit card.
3. After payment, revisit the Portal to login to your account, fill the Screening Form
accordingly and upload your passport photograph.
4. After submitting the form, print a copy of the Acknowledgement Slip for future reference.
B. List of eligible candidates who have met the requirements from amongst those who have
registered will be displayed on the website in due course. Candidates are expected to
frequently visit the website www.atbu.edu.ng for updated information
C. The successful candidates will be invited for physical screening in a date to be
announced later.


mean while it was observed that there are complaints on the registration for direct entry candidates i personally tried consistently for one of my friends and this was the output shown 

Note: the above output shows on an attempt to log in for a d.e candidate.
on a contrary when tried to log in for utme candidate it was successful as shown below
then after generating the rrr and done with the final payment, the form finally opened where i filled in the necessary  information.
Note: scratch card for all sittings is mandatory as you can't submit without it.
below is the final output after filling the necessary information.


Problem Encountered:
From what i saw, there is no June/July on the candidates year of exams, no option for awaiting result etc

Conclusion: our blog concluded that possibly the school may be working on their site for upgrate. Keep patronizing our blog for updates and don't forget to drop your comments below thanks