Affiliates Update:November 2005

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NISS Affiliates Program

NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates Program

Update: November 2005

1. NEW AFFILIATES. We welcome to the program:

University of California Berkeley, Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics. Deborah Nolan is representative.

2. POSTDOCTORAL APPOINTMENTS. Together NISS and SAMSI will be making as many as eight postdoctoral appointments to begin in 2006, so please encouragement your graduating students, recent graduates and other young colleagues to consider these wonderful opportunities. Information and instructions for applying (in SAMSI's case, the application process is entirely on-line) are available on the Web:

For NISS, http://www.niss.org/postdoc_info.html

For SAMSI, http://www.samsi.info/opportunities/postdoc.shtml

3. UPCOMING AFFILIATES EVENTS

SAMSI FMSE Transition Workshop (2/26-28/06, RTP)
SAMSI Undergraduate Workshop (3/3-4/06, RTP)
Affiliates Annual Meeting (March, 2006: location and dates TBD)
Workshop on Survey Costs (Washington, April 18-19, 2006). Details TBA.
SAMSI NDHS Transition Workshop (5/15-16/06, RTP)
SAMSI ASTRO Transition Workshop (6/11-14/06, Penn State)
Workshop: Statistical Disclosure Limitation for Geospatial Data (Spring 2006, NISS)

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

4. SAMSI 2006-07 PROGRAMS. SAMSI will conduct programs in 2006-07 on

High-Dimensional Inference and Random Matrices (Fall 2006). For details, see http://www.samsi.info/programs/2006ranmatprogram.shtml

Development, Assessment and Utilization of Complex Computer Models (Full year program, with multiple subprograms). For details, see http://www.samsi.info/programs/2006compmodprogram.shtml

5. SAMSI WORKING GROUPS. Activities of working groups in current SAMSI programs can be followed on-line at:

FMSE: http://www.samsi.info/programs/2005finmathprogram.shtml

NDHS: http://www.samsi.info/programs/2005natdefprogram.shtml

All of the working groups will break for the holidays, but most plan to resume their activities in January.

In addition, working groups for the Astrostatistics (ASTRO) program will begin activities in late January. For preliminary information, see http://www.samsi.info/programs/2005astroprogram.shtml

6. 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

7. HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all, from everyone at NISS.

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