Affiliates Update: October, 2003

1. DATA CONFIDENTIALITY TECHNOLOGY DAY, to be held in Washington on Thursday, November 20, 2003. The location will be announced shortly. In part, this technology day is a report on recent research under the NISS digital government project "Data Confidentiality, Data Quality and Data Integration for Federal Databases: Foundations to Software Prototypes" to our partner federal agencies: the BLS, BTS, Census, NASS and NCES.
The planned presentations:

- Introduction and Overview: Alan Karr, NISS

- Data Swapping Toolkit: Ashish Sanil, NISS

- Tabular Data (focusing in released marginals): Aleksandra Slavkovic, Carnegie Mellon University

- Perturbation Methods: Steve Roehrig, Carnegie Mellon University

- Regression Servers: Jerome Reiter, Duke University

- Privacy Preserving Regressions: Alan Karr

- Future Plans: Alan Karr

Space is likely to be VERY LIMITED. Those from affiliates other than the partner agencies who are interested in attending should send E-mail to me as soon as possible.

2. STATISTICAL COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE WORKSHOP.
On December 9, NISS will hold a small workshop on the statistical computing infrastructure of the future. In part, the workshop will contemplate a response to a potential call for cyberinfrastructure arising from the "Adkins report" _Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure:Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure_, which is available at

http://www.communitytechnology.org/nsf_ci_report/report.pdf

A larger, Affiliates-sponsored event is a likely follow-up.

3. FUTURE AFFILIATES EVENTS

First Annual Affiliates Problem Day
Thursday, March 4, 2004, NISS Headquarters

2004 Planning Meeting
Friday, March 5, 2004, NISS Headquarters

Workshop on Overarching Issues in Risk Analysis
Thursday-Saturday, April 22-24, 2004, Iowa State University

4. CO-SPONSORED EVENTS.
Affiliates reimbursement accounts (ARAs) may be used to attend events co-sponsored by NISS, including

2004 QPRC: 2004 Quality & Productivity Research Conference (May 19-21, Raleigh, NC), also sponsored by SAS, the Quality and Productivity Section of the ASA and other organizations.

MMR 2004: Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability Methodology and Practice (June 21-25, 2004 Santa Fe, New Mexico). Information is available at http://www.stat.lanl.gov/MMR2004/index.htm

5. 2003-04 SAMSI WORKSHOPS

Data Mining and Machine Learning
Closing Workshop, May 20-22, 2004
Mini-workshops TBA

Multiscale Model Development and Control Design
     Tutorials and Opening Workshop, January 17-19, 2004
     Multi-Scale Phenomena in Soft-Matter, Nano-Materials, February 15-17, 2004
     Fluctuations and Continuum Equations in Granular Flow, April 15-17, 2004

Undergraduate Workshop: Data Mining—Handling the Flood of Data, November 14-15, 2003

Hot Topics Workshop on National Defense and Homeland Security, April 1-2, 2004

For more information, see the SAMSI Web site:

http://www.samsi.info/upcomingworkshops.html

This page updated on November 3, 2003 2:57 PM