Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa Spanish Society for Statistics and Operation Research SEIO

The Executive Committee

• President: Begoña Vitoriano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Past president: Jesús López-Fidalgo, Universidad de Navarra
• Vicepresident (for Statistics): Carmen Armero, Universitat de València
• Vicepresident (for Operations Research): Mercedes Landete, Universidad Miguel Hernández
• Secretary: F. Javier Martín, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

About society

The SEIO was first created on the 12th February 1962 under the name of the Spanish Operations Research Society. Its first meeting took place in the rooms of the Institute of Statistical Research of the Upper Council of Scientific Research and was attended by 52 people interested in methods of Operations Research and the propagation within Spain of the theory and practice in the field.

In a General Meeting held on the 30th June 1976, the Society’s activities of the SEIO were extended to include Statistics and Computing. In the General Meeting held on the 20th December 1984 it was decided to modify its statutes, name and commitments and the SEIO was henceforth referred to as the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research. In March 1999 some of the statutes were changed further and are the ones that govern the Society today. At present, the SEIO has around 700 members.

News from the Society

In recent years, the Incubator of Surveys and Experiments competition has been held in the different autonomous communities, aimed at students in high school, baccalaureate and intermediate training cycles. The aim is to awaken students' curiosity for statistics as a fundamental tool for the analysis of data from studies in experimental and social sciences. The Society of Statistics and Operations Research organizes every year the national phase of this competition. This year will held in Bilbao from 26 to 28 June, organized by the Department of Mathematics of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, with the collaboration of BCAM Basque Center for Applied Mathematics and Eustat - Euskal Estatistika Erakundea - Basque Institute of Statistics. See more info https://www.seio.es/incubator/

Four disgtinguished statisticians must be congratulated, affiliated with the Society of Statistics and Operations Research: Vanesa Guerrero has won the L'Óreal-UNESCO "For Women in Science" research award, María José Ginzo has won the award for the Best Thesis in Digital Humanities 2023 of the international Society HDH and the BBVA Foundation. Rubén Ruiz for his appointment as a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Francisco Ruiz de la Rúa has won the Georg Cantor prize of the International Society on MCDM.

SEIO MEDALS 2024
SEIO Medals are intended to recognize the work of SEIO members who have contributed significantly and continuously to the advancement and proliferation of statistics and the operations research as scientific disciplines, both nationally and internationally. A maximum of two SEIO Medals per year will be awarded. The 2024 awards were announced in June, and the awardees are: Emilio J. Carrizosa Priego (Universidad de Sevilla) and M. Dolores Ugarte Martínez (Universidad Pública de Navarra). More information can be obtained here.

SEIO-FBBVA AWARDS 2024
The SEIO and the BBVA Foundation confers Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research – BBVA Foundation (SEIO-FBBVA) Awards for particularly significant scientific contributions in statistics and operations research. Awards made under this call, to be bestowed annually at national level, recognize originality, innovation and contributions in statistics and operations research, with the dual aim of encouraging research work in SEIO’s focus areas and its transmission to society..
The 2024 SEIO-FBBVA Awards were announced in July, and the awardees are:
Award: Methodological contribution in Statistics
• A general framework for circular local likelihood regression. María Alonso-Pena, Irene Gijbels, Rosa M. Crujeiras
Award: Methodological contribution in Operational Research
• On solving large-scale multistage stochastic optimization problems with a new specialized interior-point approach. Jordi Castro, Laureano F. Escudero, Juan F. Monge
Award: Applied contribution in Statistics
• Designing experiments for estimating an appropriate outlet size for a silo type problem. Jesús López Fidalgo, Caterina May, José Antonio Moler
Award: Applied contribution in Operational Research
• Shapley–Scarf housing markets: respecting improvement, integer programming, and kidney Exchange. Peter Biró, Flip Klijn, Xenia Klimentova, Ana Viana
Award: Best contribution in Statistics and Operational Research applied to Data Science and Big Data
• Mathematical optimization modelling for group counterfactual explanations. Emilio Carrizosa, Jasone Ramírez-Ayerbe, Dolores Romero

SYSORM 2024
The 4th Spanish Young Statisticians and Operational Researchers Meeting (SYSORM) was succesfully held in Santiago de Compostela, 19 to 21 June 2024. More than 30 young researchers from Spain and abroad participated jointly in 4 plenary lectures from renowned speakers. The aim of these SYSORM meetings is to represent and give visibility to the new generations of researchers in statistics and operational research, covering methodological issues to applied research, and promoting professional communication between them, both nationally and internationally.

SEIO PILL 9: DATA JOURNALISM: VISUALISE, SUMMARISE, INFORM
SEIO organised monthly a pills series PÍLDORAS SEIO para Comprender y Usar la Información (SEIO pills for understanding and managing information). The latest pill before the summer break, held on 26 June 2024, was devoted to Data Journalism, where Anabel Forte and Begoña Vitoriano interview the Spanish renowned journalist Kiko Llaneras, asking about his job and the way to transmit the information obtained from data.

SEIO LAUNCHS THE MANIFESTO FOR STATISTICAL LITERACY
The 6th of September, the Executive Committee of SEIO approved the Manifesto for Statistical Literacy, an initiative of the SEIO Working Group on Teaching Statistics and Operational Research, and approved the commitment to promote the Manifesto. SEIO is disseminating the Manifesto and receiving the interest of scientific societies, entities, groups and individuals to subscribe it. SEIO has dedicated a site on its website for promoting the Manifesto and the subscribers here. For the moment, it is only in Spanish, but an English translation will be ready soon. Any entity, group or person interested in adhering to the manifesto may do so by writing an email to vpe@seio.es.