The orientation class of the new first year students of Applied Statistics (Batch - 16) will be held on Tuesday, 26th January at 11 AM in the ISRT Seminar room. All the students of 16th Batch are welcomed to ISRT as the new members of the family.

ISRT clinched a comprehensive win against the Department of Pharmacy in their first match of the Inter Department Cricket Tournament organised by the University of Dhaka. The match was held on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at the Jagannath Hall ground. ISRT won the match by four wickets, batting first Pharmacy Department scored 124 runs in 20 overs. Chasing the target, ISRT made 125 runs for 6 wickets in 16 overs.

We all congratulate the ISRT cricket team.

ISRT faculty Shahedul Ahsan Khan has been selected to receive one of International Biometric Society's ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards for the 2010 ENAR Spring meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The meeting is supposed to take place on March 22-23, 2010 and Shahedul Ahsan Khan is expected to present his paper there. He is currently on study leave for higher studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Sabria Jihan Khan, Applied Statistics alumni from Batch 7, has received Ashalata Sen memorial gold medal at the convocation of University of Dhaka. She secured highest marks in her MS final examination among the students of all departments under the Faculties of Science, Biological Sciences and Pharmacy.

Congratulations Sabria!

After completing his higher studies at the University of Westminster, United Kingdom, Md. Asaduzzaman has joined ISRT on December 8, 2009. Asad, a student of the first batch of Applied Statistics, graduated from ISRT in 2001. He joined ISRT in 2001 as a lecturer and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2005.

ISRT family welcomes Asad back!

A TOUR of its carefully tended, 300-acre corporate campus here leaves little doubt why surveys, year after year, rate the SAS Institute, the world’s largest private software company, among the best places to work.

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A New York Times article on R, which is the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia. It is becoming their lingua franca partly because data mining has entered a golden age, whether being used to set ad prices, find new drugs more quickly or fine-tune financial models. Companies as diverse as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Shell use it.

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ISRT family is pleased to welcome Mr Md. Mahsin and Mr Sharif Mahmood, who both joined ISRT as lecturers on September 08, 2009. Both of them were students of the Batch 8 of Applied Statistics, University of Dhaka. They successfully completed the MS in Applied Statistics in the early of the year 2009.