Affiliates Update: October 2004

1. AJL. This is a reminder that the Affiliates Job Listings are operating again this year. For those who are new to the Program and to remind everyone, the AJL is simply a centralized listing of job opportunities at the NISS Affiliates and NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates, and is located on the NISS Web site at

http://www.niss.org/affiliates/ajls.html

The AJL is open to all affiliates. Last year, there was a good mix of academic, government and industrial positions, and I hope for the same this year. Material for the AJL should be sent to Katherine Kantner (kak@niss.org). ASCII text is the preferred format (be sure that hyperlinks are clear), but we can handle almost anything.

2. BOARD OF TRUSTEES AFFILIATES COMMITTEE. As part of implementation of the NISS strategic vision, the Board of Trustees has established several ad hoc committees: Affiliates, Awards, Building, National Presence, NISS History and Science. Members of the Affiliates Committee are Alicia Carriquiry (Iowa State), Jon Kettenring (Drew University), James Landwehr (Avaya), Clifford Spiegelman (Texas A&M), Jack Stenner (Metametrics), Jessica Utts (UC Davis), and Lee Wilkinson (SPSS), who chairs the committee.

Jim Landwehr and Cliff Spiegelman are not Board members, but will help to provide input from the affiliates to the committee. However, as the committee proceeds, it will welcome input from all affiliates. The first meeting will be during the November 5-6 NISS Annual Meeting.

3. UPCOMING 2004 AFFILIATES EVENT

Workshop on Statistical Risk and Counterterrorism (co-sponsored): November 20, 2004, New York University. See

http://www.niss.org/affiliates/wsc112004/wsc112004.html for details.

4. PLANNED 2005 AFFILIATES EVENTS. The following list is only partially complete:

SAMSI Data Assimilation Kickoff Workshop (1/23-26/05, RTP)

SAMSI Undergraduate Workshop (2/18-19/05, NISS/SAMSI)

SAMSI Workshop: Data Assimilation--Issues, Challenges and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2/22-25/05, Los Angeles; hosted and co-sponsored by IPAM)

Affiliates Problem Day (3/3/05, NISS)

Affiliates Planning Meeting (3/4/05, NISS)

Workshop: Total Survey Error (3/17-18/05, Washington)

Workshop: Overarching Issues in Risk Assessment (4/28-30/05, Ames, IA; hosted and co-sponsored by Iowa State University)

Workshop: Latent Variable Models and Survey Data for Social and Health Sciences Research (5/4-6/05, Montreal; hosted and co-sponsored by the Canadian National Program on Complex Data Structures)

SAMSI LVSS Closing Workshop (5/19-21/05, RTP)

SAMSI CompBio Closing Workshop (5/22-24/05, RTP)

SAMSI Data Assimilation Summer School (6/12-23/05, Boulder, CO; hosted and co-sponsored by NCAR)

Workshop: Statistical Disclosure Limitation for Geospatial Data (Spring 2005, NISS)

Technology Day: Metabolomics (Spring 2005, NISS)

JSM Affiliates Meeting (8/7/05, Minneapolis)

SAMSI NDHS Kickoff Workshop (9/11-14/05, RTP)

SAMSI Financial Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics Kickoff Workshop (9/17-20/05, RTP)

Affiliates reimbursement accounts may used to attend all of these events.

4. POSTDOCTORAL APPOINTMENTS. NISS has project needs and funds to make several postdoctoral appointments between now and next summer. Areas include digital government (data confidentiality, data integration and data quality), dynamics of social networks, education statistics, software engineering, statistical disclosure limitation for geospatial image data, and bioinformatics. Involvement with SAMSI programs is possible. Please make students and young colleagues aware of these wonderful opportunities. Information and a downloadable announcement are available on the NISS web site, at

http://www.niss.org/postdoc_info.html

In particular, there is a unique opportunity for a postdoctoral fellow to join the NSF-funded NISS project "Dynamics for Social Networks Processes: Comparing Statistical Models with Intelligent Agents."

5. SAMSI PROGRAMS FOR 2005-06. SAMSI will conduct 2005-06 programs on

Astrostatistics (Spring, 2006). See http://www.samsi.info/200506/astro/astro-home.html

Financial Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics (entire year). See http://www.samsi.info/200506/fmse/fmse-home.html

National Defense and Homeland Security (entire year). See http://www.samsi.info/200506/ndhs/ndhs-home.html

Opportunities for participation are available for those at all career stages:

Long-term research visitors, associated with the individual SAMSI programs, for periods of up to one-year. SAMSI support for such visitors is typically in the form of expense reimbursement. To explore possibilities as a long-term visitor, use the contact addresses for the individual programs, or contact Jim Berger (berger@samsi.info).

Postdoctoral fellowships are available (up to 5), associated with individual SAMSI programs, with appointments beginning in July or September 2005; or January 2006. Appointments will typically be for two years and be made jointly between SAMSI and an associated organization. Extremely competitive salaries will be offered. For information and an on-line application, see http://www.samsi.info/200506/postdocappl/postdoc-home.html

University Fellow appointments (up to 3) are senior level positions that are joint with Partner universities. For information, see http://www.samsi.info/200506/fellows2005-06.html

SAMSI New Researcher fellowships (up to 3) provide support of up to $20,000 in salary for semester to year-long visiting outstanding researchers who have received their Ph.D. within the previous 8 years. For information, see http://www.samsi.info/200506/fellows2005-06.html

Visiting graduate student positions are available, although it is expected that the student’s advisor will be in residence for much of the time that the student is visiting. Applications should consist of a letter indicating the SAMSI programs of interest, a vita, and a letter from the student’s advisor.

This page updated on November 2, 2004 11:27 AM