NISS Affiliates Program

NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates Program

Update: June 2005

• George Mason, University, Fairfax, VA. Edward Wegman is representative.
  
  
• Wyeth Research, Collegeville, PA. Dennis Cosmatos is representative.

Workshop on Privacy and Confidentiality (7/9-15/05, Bertinoro, Italy)

Workshop on Metabolomics (7/14-15/05, NISS).
See http://www.niss.org/affiliates/metabolomics200507/metabolomicsworkshop200507.html

CHANGED DATES: SAMSI Technology Transfer Course: Data Mining and Machine Learning, David Banks, principal instructor (7/25-29/05, NISS/SAMSI). See http://www.samsi.info/200405/ttsc/dmml-tt-200507.html

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

JSM Affiliates Meeting: Sunday 8/7/05, 11AM - 2 PM, Directors Row C, Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis

NISS/SAMSI JSM Reception: Monday, 8/8/05, 5-7 PM, Salon B, Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis

SAMSI National Defense and Homeland Security (NDHS) Kickoff Workshop (9/11-14/05, RTP). See
http://www.samsi.info/200506/ndhs/ndhs-workshop200509.html

SAMSI Financial Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics (FMSE) Kickoff Workshop (9/17-20/05, RTP).
See http://www.samsi.info/200506/fmse/fmse-workshop200509.html

The Future of Data Analysis, A Conference in Honor of Jon Kettenring (9/30/05, Basking Ridge, NJ).
See http://www.niss.org/affiliates/jkconference200509/kettenringconference.html

NISS/SAMSI Workshop on Collaborations in the Mathematical Geosciences (10/6-7/05, Research Triangle Park, NC).
See http://www.niss.org/cmg200510/cmg200510-index.html

Workshop: Overarching Issues in Risk Assessment (10/27-29/05, Ames, IA; hosted and co-sponsored by Iowa State University)

SAMSI FMSE Credit Risk Workshop (November 1-2, 2005, RTP)

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

• SAMSI Astrostatistics (ASTRO) Kickoff Workshop (1/22-25/06, RTP)
  
  
• SAMSI FMSE Summary Workshop (2/26-28/06, RTP)
  
  
• Affiliates Annual Meeting (March, 2006: location and dates TBD)
  
  
• SAMSI NDHS Summary Workshop (5/15-16/06, RTP)
  
  
• SAMSI ASTRO Summary Workshop (6/11-14/06, Penn State)
  

• NISS-organized invited session "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases," on Monday, August 8th from 2:00 to 3:50 PM, in Room 102D of the Minneapolis Convention Center. Presentations are by Max Buot: "Statistical Analysis in the Presence of Matching Uncertainty," Xiaodong Lin: "Privacy Preserving Statistical Analysis for Horizontally Partitioned Data Sets," and Ashish Sanil: "Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analyses of Distributed Data Using Data Perturbations."
  
  
• SAMSI-organized invited session "Latent Variables in Science and Statistics," on Tuesday, 9 from 8:30 to 10:20 AM, in Room 103C of the Minneapolis Convention Center. Presentations are by Kenneth Bollen, SAMSI and UNC: "Latent Variables in the Social Sciences: A Multidisciplinary Program of SAMSI," Thomas B. Kepler, Duke University: "Multiple Scales and Hidden Variables in Immunological Modeling," and Shree P. Khare, SAMSI: "A General Framework for Adaptive Observations in Geophysical Prediction."

• Michael Last, Ph.D., Statistics, University of California, Davis
  
  
• Francisco Vera, Ph.D., Statistics, University of South Carolina
  
  
• Mi-Ja Woo, Ph.D., Statistics, University of Georgia