NISS Affiliates Program

NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates Program

Update: June 2004

• 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 Statistical Risk and Counterterrorism (co-sponsored): November 19-20, 2004, New York University
  
  
• Workshop on Total Survey Error: January, 2005, Research Triangle Park
  
  
• Workshop on Overarching Issues in Risk Analysis: April 2005, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
  

• 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:
  
  
  Ashish Sanil, NISS: Inference-based Measures of Utility for Contingency Tables
  
  
  Jerome Reiter, Duke University; Ashish Sanil, NISS, Alan F. Karr, NISS, and Shanti Gomatam, US Food and Drug Administration: Disclosure Risk and Data Utility for Remote-access Regression Servers
  
  
  S. Lynne Stokes, Southern Methodist University; George Duncan, Carnegie Mellon University, and Sallie Keller-McNulty, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Data Swapping: Disclosure Risk vs. Data Utility
  
  
  Xiaodong Lin, NISS and SAMSI: Risk-Utility Considerations in Secure Data Integration

• 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)