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Dream and Reality

Dream and Reality. Mohammed Nasser Professor and Chairman Department of Statistics Rajshahi University. Prof. K.M. Hossain (1930-1999) his colleagues, staff and students. Acknowledgement. Acknowledgement. Qazi Motahar Hossain. 1897-1981. T he pioneer of statistics in Bangladesh .

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Dream and Reality

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  1. Dream and Reality Mohammed Nasser Professor and Chairman Department of Statistics Rajshahi University

  2. Prof. K.M. Hossain(1930-1999)his colleagues, staff and students Acknowledgement

  3. Acknowledgement QaziMotaharHossain 1897-1981 The pioneer of statistics in Bangladesh

  4. Acknowledgement P.C. Mahalanobis (1893-1972) The pioneer of statistics in Asia “A good mathematician may not be a good statistician but a good statistician must be good mathematician”

  5. We are deeply indebted to • Our life-longwell-wisher, Professor B.K. Sinha, ISI, Kolkata. ( retired) • The world top most biostatistician, Professor P.K. Sen, University of North Carolina. • Eminent bio-informaticianProfessor Kohei. Akazawafrom Nigita University, Japan . • Stephen P. Luby, Professor, Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford Univ., USA.

  6. Our Dream • To bring back the rich cultural educational heritage of ShompurMôhabihar ( 781- 13th century) • To build a statistical center of international standard in Bangladesh • To have collaboration with with other departments as well as universities/institutes. • To produce some world class scientists like Silvodro, AtishDipankar, Jagadish Chandra Basu, MegnadShaha etc

  7. A Bird View Department of Statistics • Established in 1961 • 31 teachers ( at present 25) • 22 office staff • The present enrolment of the student in the undergraduate classes is about 400 • Apart from offering B.Sc. Honours and M.Sc. degrees in Statistics, the department also conducts research for higher studies leading to M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees.

  8. Major Achievements of Our Department before HEQEP • The Department has its own seminar library with a large number of Textbooks, Journals, and Scientific Literature • A sophisticated computer unit with 100 computers and other electronics appliances. • Two international conferences were organized. In the last decade The department publishes an annual journal named International Journal of Statistical Sciences (IJSS). ( 11 issues)

  9. Major Achievements of Our Department before HEQEP The department has an association of its own, named “ParishankanSamity” Recently, the alumni of this department have formed a Statistics Alumni Association in Dhaka to incorporate all ex-statistics student of Rajshahi University from all over Bangladesh and also from abroad to promote academic, research and all other activities in the field of statistics. For the last 15 years this department has been keping relation with Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

  10. Major Achievements of Our Department before HEQEP • We built research link with • Kyoto Gakuen University, Japan and The University of Electro-Communication, Tokyo, Japan • University of Malaya • University of Putra Malaysia • ICDDR,B

  11. Research areas of our department Anthropometric Statistics Bayesian Inference Bio-statistics Bioinformatics Bootstrap techniques Computer Programming & Simulation Demography

  12. Research area of our department • Human Growth and Human Morphology • Nonlinear programming • Order Statistics • Earthquake Prediction Modeling

  13. Research area of our department • Reliability • Robust Statistics • Sampling techniques • Social and Educational Statistics • Stochastic Modeling • Statistical Inference • Statistical Data Mining • Environmental Statistics

  14. Activities after HEQEP • Activities of HEQEP started in the beginning of 2011 in the Department of statistics, with vow to enhance Capacity Building For Teaching-Learning Of Statistical Data Mining For Agriculture, and thus to lay down the spring- board to jump in area of world class research on Statistical Data Mining with a group of researchers not only from our dept. but also from other departments from RU and other national-international universities/institutes.. Health And Environment

  15. Activities after HEQEP • Firstly the department formed a self-assessment committee, then inter-Department expert committee consisting of experts from different disciplines like Agricultural Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Environmental Science, Life Science, Business Studies etc. of this university.

  16. Activities after HEQEP A website “http://www.statru.org” was launched at very beginning of 2011, which added a great milestone to our department.

  17. Activities after HEQEP Honors syllabus was updated with including geometry, statistical programming and Modern statistical research area like Data mining Bioinformatics etc.

  18. Activities after HEQEP Five training for enhancing the quality of our teachers ,students and staff have been completed. Prof Dr. Raquib Ahmed is delivering his lecture on GIS Training Programme

  19. Activities after HEQEP • We have completed 57 weekly seminars • 10 national and 2 international workshops • 5 training programmes • 6 student workshops • 95 percent of planned infrastructural development have been completed. • Preparations to host an International Conference 2012 on Statistical Data Mining for Bioinformatics,Health, Agriculture and Environment along with few more workshops are going in full swing

  20. Activities after HEQEP 57 weekly seminar have been completed of different fields by the expert of varies universities of home and abroad.

  21. Activities after HEQEP • Prof. in Emeritus Dr. Mir MasumAli from Ball State University, USA delivering his article on "Use, Abuse and Applications of Statistics"

  22. Activities after HEQEP • A scene of Group discussion on the workshop

  23. Visiting professors of the department of statistics Activities after HEQEP Prof. Dr. KoheiAkazawa, Niigata university, Japan visited the Department for two weeks and delivered four lectures on Survival Analysis. Prof. Dr. Koynoygi, Japan visited this department and delivered a lecture on Health Statistics. Dr. Pinakpani Pal, ISI, Kolkata, Dr. A. B. M. Shawkat Ali, Central Queensland University, Australia Dr. Masahiro Sugimoto, Kyoto University, Japan Dr. AHM RahmatullahImon, Ball State University, USA Visited the Department and delivered their important Lectures. Prof Akazawais delivering his lecture

  24. Activities after HEQEP A monograph research on demography by Prof. Dr. SamadAbedin has been published in national and international journal. Chairman of our Department and prominent professor Dr. Mir Masum Ali formally uncovered this monograph on international workshop.

  25. Activities after HEQEP The World statistics day first time was observed by department with the theme “Service, Integrity, and Professionalism”. To familiar the necessity of statistics in society the department organized many programmes with a colorful rally, seminar etc.

  26. Activities after HEQEP A multimedia documentary on The Sundarbans made by a group of students was presented for making environmental consciousness about world largest mangrove forest to the audience.

  27. Activities after HEQEP An academic exhibition of the faculty members was staged in our Department where the researcher present their research poster .Former professor Hosnaarahossain, Prof. Dr. Mir Masum Ali, and Prof. Dr. SamadAbedin Deeply observed this exhibition and marking. Prof HosnearaHossainis visiting the academic exhibition.

  28. Activities after HEQEP Collaborative work with ICDDR,B has been functioning. Already we have been able to organize some collaborative activities for sharing knowledge and experience. Even two or more specialist visits our Department and delivered some training programme.

  29. Infrastructural development Activities after HEQEP Picture: Computer unit of the Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi

  30. Infrastructural development Activities after HEQEP Picture: Chairman’s room of the Department of Statistics, University of Rajshahi

  31. Infrastructural development Activities after HEQEP Picture: Office of the Visiting Professor.

  32. Future Plan To obtain research funds to improve our research groups To strengthen collaborative research To have active relation with government –nongoverment agencies, private firms, research institute collaborative research

  33. Thanks

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