Affiliates Update: April 2005

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Update: April 2005

1. SACKS AWARD NOMINATIONS. The NISS Awards Committee is continuing to accept nominations for the 2005 Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research through Friday, May 13. The process is much simpler than in previous years: only a letter of nomination is needed. For details, see http://www.niss.org/sacksaward/sacksaward-nominations05.html

2. 2005 APDF. The full announcement of the 2005 Affiliates Proposal Development Fund (APDF) awards competition for 2005 will appear shortly.
Three important changes have been made:

Rather than two awards of up to $10,000, we have set aside a pool of $25,000, from which we will make one, two (or conceivably but not likely more) awards. Proposals may request up to the entire pool of $25,000.
The formal cost-sharing requirement has been dropped.
Depending on circumstances, APDF award funds can either be sent to another institution or maintained in an account at NISS. This adds flexibility for recipients.
The likely target date for submission of proposals is June 15. The award(s) will be announced at the NISS/SAMSI JSM reception on August 8.

4. KETTENRING CONFERENCE. As I noted in my March update, NISS will honor Jon Kettenring's role as founder/instigator of the affiliates programs, NISS is sponsoring a one-day conference in Jon's honor. The title of the conference, which will be on Friday, September 30, 2005, at Avaya Labs Research in Basking Ridge, NJ, is "The Future of Data Analysis." A copy of the tentative program accompanies this message.

5. 2005 AFFILIATES EVENTS

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 (5/21/05, 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)
The Future of Data Analysis, A Conference in Honor of Jon Kettenring (9/30/05, Basking Ridge, NJ)
Workshop: Overarching Issues in Risk Assessment (10/27-29/05, 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.

6. 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)

7. 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

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