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StatFest is a one day conference aimed at encouraging undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups (African American, Hispanic, Native Americans) to consider careers and graduate studies in the statistical sciences. StatFest 2018 will be hosted by Amherst College in the new Science Center.
The conference is free but preregistration is required; the deadline to register is Wednesday, September 19th.
The two-day event will take place at UMass (Conference Center) and Amherst College (Fayerweather Hall & Center for Humanistic Inquiry) on Friday, Sept. 21, and Saturday, Sept. 22. It includes panels on Spanish, Catalan and Galician theater and performance dealing with topics of exile, gender, sexuality, religion, translation, adaptation and performance traditions.