Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB/ASC18 Melbourne: AGM Wed 29 Aug 2018

1. Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB/ASC18 Melbourne: AGM Wed 29 Aug 2018 ISCB Sub-Committee National Groups

2. National Groups SC:Terms of Reference and Membership

3. Polish NG:Report • PNG Representatives, mandate 2016-2018 Krystyna Szafraniec (chair), Alicja Cicha-Mikołajczyk (vice-chair), Kinga Sałapa (treasurer), Renata Majewska (webmaster) • Membership 2016 • 94 registered, 75 paid membership fee (among them 2 students, 10 retired) • Membership 2017 • 63 total, including 5 students, 10 retired • Membership 2018 • 62 total, including 5 students, 10 retired • Course Organisation • 2-day course entitled “Statistical methods and models for analysis of multiple events and competing risks data”, September 25-26, 2017, Krakow • Speaker Tomasz Burzykowski, Professor of Biostatistics/ Bioinformatics at the Center for Statistics of Hasselt University (Belgium) and at the Medical University of Bialystok (Poland) • 38 participants,18 members of PNG,16 participants from abroad • Seminars Organisation • Educational seminar organised for non-statisticians, lectures given by members of PNG: „Pitfalls in Medical Statistics”organised within the Xth Conference on Preventive Cardiology, November 17-18, 2017, Krakow, • Regular meetings: December 15, 2017, Kraków; June 22, 2018, organised by members of PNG from Medical University of Silesia in Sosnowiec • PNG Life Short Summary • Since this year, regular Summer Meetings have been planned to hold in different academic places, home institutions of PNG members • We made some steps toward 2020 Annual ISCB Conference in Krakow • Next regular meeting is scheduled for December 2018 in Krakow

4. Hungarian NG:Report • HNG Representatives • Chair: Julia Singer (2017-2020) • Secretary: Tímea Gombos (2017-2020) • Treasurer: Attila Dávid (2017-2020) • Membership 2017 • 23 members, 20 scientists, 2 students, 1 retired • Membership 2018 • 21 members, 17 scientists, 3 students, 1 retired • Course Organisation Planned short course: 9 November 2018:The design and analysis of N of 1 trials, delivered by Stephen Senn. Seminars Organisation • Monthly regular seminars, Biometrics Conference (organized each three years) and Biosimilar Forum (yearly, organized in cooperation with the Viennese section of IBS and Accelsiors Ltd ) • HNG Life Short Summary • Regular meetings, award for young statisticians: in 2018 two awards were granted.

5. Romanian NG:Report • RNG Representatives • National Representative: AncaVitcu (2017-2018) • Deputy/Treasurer: AncaIgnat (2017-2018) • Webmaster: Elena Rotaru (2017-2018) • Nationalnetwork coordinators: Elena Podoleanu (Bucharest), SoranaBolboacă (Cluj-Napoca), Gabriel Dimitriu (Iași), Liana Bera (Sibiu), Laszlo-Barna Iantovics & Marius Mărușteri (Târgu Mureș), Corina Vernic (Timișoara) (2017-2018) • Membership 2017 • 59 members (59 scientists) • Membership 2018 • 55 members (55 scientists) • Workshop on Recent Trends in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics • It will be held in Sibiu, during two days at the end of November • Will includ a number of contributed talks, an interactive session, a panel discussion. and optional evening social events • Is targeted experienced as well as early career statisticians • Seminars Organisation • Being affiliated to the academic community all members have a hectic life imposed by their status - almost regularly deliver lectures, organize workshops and conferences at local and national levels • RNG Life Short Summary • Short meetings with the local coordinators are held almost each month, and at local level discussions take place whenever needed.

6. Czech NG:Report • CzNG Representatives • Zdeněk Valenta (chairman), Marek Malý (vice-chairman), JindraReissigová (treasurer) • Mandate 11/2015-11/2018 • Membership 2017 • 39 members (34 scientists, 3 students, 2 retired) • Membership 2018 • 39 members (34 scientists, 2 students, 3 retired) • Course Organisation • Hein Putter and T.A. Balan:‘Frailty Models: Theory & Practice’ (3rd Nov 2017). One day non-sponsored ISCB course in Prague attended by 20 participantsfromthe Czech Republic (12), Norway (2), South Korea (2), Ireland (2), Romania (1) and Austria (1) • Seminars Organisation • PatríciaMartinková, AdélaDrabinová and Jakub Houdek (ICS CAS CR, University of Economics in Prague)‘Teaching psychometrics and analysing composite measurements with R and Shiny’ • Zhiliang Ying (Department of Statistics at Columbia University in New York, U.S.A., Chief Co- Editor of ‘StatisticaSinica’).‘Measurement theory and statistical models’ • ŠárkaRusá, Dept. of Probability & Mathematical Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics & Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. ‘Identifying influential observations in joint Bayesian models’.

7. 2018 ISCB Conference Awards for ScientistsReport by Zdeněk Valenta • Applicants • The NG SC received a total of 14 eligible applications for the Conference Awards for Scientists (CASc), up from 5 applications last year and 10 in 2016. A nice geographic diversity was achieved this year • The applicants represented 11 countries of Cameroon (1), Kenya (1), India (1), Nigeria (2), South Africa (1), Bangladesh (3), Czech Republic (1), Lebanon (1), China (1), Turkey (1) and Costa Rica (1) • The SC appears to be moving in the right direction by attracting the applications from largely non-EU countries • Winners • The NG SC decided to grant three ISCB CASc awards in 2018 • The highest score earned the submission by Marek Brabecfrom the Czech Republic. His winning contribution was entitled ‘Semiparametric model for short term effects of air pollution upon asthma symptoms exacerbations’ and earned 43 points out of 50 possible • The second winning application by Anower Hossain from Bangladesh was entitled ‘Analysing time to event outcomes in cluster randomised trials using cluster-level analysis methods’ and earned 40 points • A third winning application was submitted by Samer A. Kharroubifrom Lebanon. It was entitled ‘Bayesian nonparametric estimation of HRQoL from preference data, and a new utility measure for Two Condition-Specific Measures (Asthma and Overactive Bladder)’ and earned 39 points • Congratulation to the 2018 CASc Award winners!