0. NEW AFFILIATE. We welcome Nuevolution, of Copenhagen, Denmark. (The program is now international!) Mads Norregaard-Madsen is their representative.

1. AFFILIATES ANNUAL MEETING. An extremely successful meeting was held on March 3 and 4. Copies of all presentations will be on the affiliates web site shortly.

2. AJL REMINDER. Send material for the Affiliates Job Listings to Katherine Kantner (kak@niss.org). The AJL is located on the NISS web site at http://www.niss.org/affiliates/ajls.html

3. 2005 AFFILIATES EVENTS

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

- SAMSI LVSS Mini-Workshop on Causality (3/29/05, RTP)

- 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 Undergraduate Workshop (5/30-6/3/05, NCSU)

- SAMSI Data Assimilation Summer School (6/11-17/05, Boulder, CO; hosted and co-sponsored by NCAR)

- SAMSI Workshop: Random Graphs and Stochastic Computation (6/13-14/05, NISS/SAMSI)

- SAMSI Technology Transfer Course: Data Mining and Machine Learning (6/20-24/05, NISS/SAMSI)

- Technology Day: Metabolomics (Summer 2005, NISS)

- IMSMW ’05: Industrial Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Workshop for graduate students (7/25-8/2/05, NCSU)

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

- NISS/SAMSI JSM Reception (8/8/05, Minneapolis)

- SAMSI National Defense and Homeland Security (NDHS) Kickoff Workshop (9/11-14/05, RTP)

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

- Workshop: Overarching Issues in Risk Assessment (10/05, Ames, IA; hosted and co-sponsored by Iowa State University)

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

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

4. 2006 AFFILIATES EVENTS

- SAMSI Astrostatistics (ASTRO) Kickoff Workshop (1/22-25/06, RTP)

- SAMSI FMSE Closing Workshop (2/26-28/06, RTP)

- Affiliates Annual Meeting (3/2-3/06, NISS)

- SAMSI NDHS Closing Workshop (5/15-16/06, RTP)

- SAMSI ASTRO Closing Workshop (6/11-14/06, Penn State)

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.