Affiliates Update: May 2004

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NISS Affiliates Program

NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates Program

Update: May 2004

0. NEW AFFILIATE. We welcome Golden Helix, Inc., Bozeman, MT. The contact is Christophe Lambert. To learn more, see their web site: http://www.goldenhelix.com

1. FUTURE AFFILIATES EVENTS

JSM Affiliates Lunch: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Sunday, August 8, Humber Room, InterContinental Hotel, Toronto
Pharmacogenomics Technology Day: Dates and Locations TBD, Fall 2004
Workshop on Total Survey Error: January, 2005. Location TBD
Workshop on Overarching Issues in Risk Analysis: April 2005, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

2. OTHER NISS JSM EVENTS

NISS/SAMSI Reception: 5:00-7:00 PM, Monday, August 9, Ontario Room, Fairmont Royal Hotel, Toronto, featuring announcement of recipients of the 2004 Sacks Award and Affiliates Proposal Development Fund awards
Invited Session: Risk-Utility Approaches to Statistical Disclosure Limitation, Thursday, August 12, Room 707, Toronto Convention Center. Presentations include:

* Inference-based Measures of Utility for Contingency Tables — Ashish Sanil, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

* Disclosure Risk and Data Utility for Remote-access Regression Servers — Jerome Reiter, Duke University; Ashish Sanil, National Institute of Statistical Sciences; Alan F. Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences; Shanti Gomatam, US Food and Drug Administration

* Data Swapping: Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility — S. Lynne Stokes, Southern Methodist University; George Duncan, Carnegie Mellon University; Sallie Keller-McNulty, Los Alamos National Lab

* Risk-utility Considerations in Secure Data Integration — Xiaodong Lin, NISS and SAMSI

3. APDF. Proposals for 2004 awards from the NISS Affiliates and NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates Proposal Development Fund (APDF) were due on June 1. Late proposals will still be considered, as time and resources permit. See http://www.niss.org/affiliates/apdf/apdf.html for details.

4. SAMSI PROGRAMS FOR 2004-05. SAMSI will conduct three programs next year:

Computational Biology of Infectious Diseases (Fall 2004 - Spring 2005)
Latent (Hidden) Variable Models in the Social Sciences (Fall 2004 - Spring 2005)
Data Assimilation for Geophysical Systems (Spring 2005)

Opportunities for participation include workshops, research visits and postdoctoral appointments. For further information, see http://www.samsi.info/200405/programs04-05.html

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

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

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