The Classification Society

The Classification Society would like to congratulate Dr. Efthymios Costa from Imperial College London for receiving the 2026 Distinguished Dissertation Award. Dr. Costa will present work from their thesis at the 2026 Annual Meeting of The Classification Society in Halifax.

Call for 2026 Distinguished Dissertation Award nominations! The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2026. Additional award information can be found here: theclassificationsociety.org/distinguished-….

The 2026 Annual Meeting of The Classification Society will be held on the Studley campus of Dalhousie University from June 16 - 18, 2026. Abstract submission is now open until March 23, 2026, at theclassificationsociety.org/annual-meeting…. #CS2026

🆕 Check out 👀 the latest November issue of Journal of Classification link.springer.com/journal/357/vo… Start reading this issue with the Editorial of the Editor-in-Chief @PaulDMcNicholas doi.org/10.1007/s00357…

Call for Psychometrika Special Section theclassificationsociety.org/call-for-psych…

Congratulations to all of the student presentation award winners from the 2025 annual meeting of the Classification Society! #CS2025 - Xiaoke Qin (@Carleton_U) - Alexa Sochaniwsky (@McMasterU) - Babak Fathollahi Dehkordi (@ubcokanagan) - Yasmin Yaccoub (@McMasterU)

@theclasssociety is delighted to announce that @PaulDMcNicholas's term as Editor-in-Chief of #JoC has been extended to 2030 theclassificationsociety.org/paul-mcnichola… @SpringerNature

Thank you @SanjeenaDang, @Utkarsh_J_Dang, and all of the students and staff of @CarletonU for hosting the 2025 Classification Society Annual Meeting! theclassificationsociety.org/on-the-2025-cl…

Congratulations to Dr. Sphiwe Skhosana, the winner of the 2025 Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award, and to Dr. Belen Pulido and Dr. Kat Clark, who were honourable mentions in the 2025 competition! theclassificationsociety.org/distinguished-…

Excited to share this call for papers to the upcoming Special Issue of JoC on Advances in Cluster Analysis! The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2024, and the call is on the journal website at link.springer.com/journal/357/up….

Congratulations to all of the student presentation award winners from the 2024 annual meeting of the Classification Society! - Mackenzie Neal (@McMasterU) - Xiaoke Qin (@Carleton_U) - Claire Cui (@DalhousieU) - Brynn O'Connell (@MacEwanU)

Congratulations to @pearce790 for winning the 2024 Distinguished Dissertation Award! theclassificationsociety.org/the-2023-disti…

A new mixture of experts modelling paper with Marco Berrettini, Giuliano Galimberti and Saverio Ranciati has recently appeared in JRSSC. academic.oup.com/jrsssc/article…

A special issue on “Advances in models and learning for clustering and classification” in Advances in Data Analysis and Classification edited with Luis-Angel García-Escudero and Salvatore Ingrassia is now online. link.springer.com/journal/11634/…

Registration open for CS2024! Please visit: theclassificationsociety.org/annual-meeting… #CS2024 #UBCO

Abstract submission for CS2024 open until March, 14, 2024! Please visit: theclassificationsociety.org/abstract-submi… #CS2024 #UBCO

Model-based clustering of spatial social networks using a latent space network model, by Egidi et al. It goes beyond distance-based modeling to account for other dimensions that are important for connections in social science data. academic.oup.com/jrsssa/article…

Hot off the presses: fit skew t or skew normal mixtures *fast*! rdcu.be/dzH01