Affiliates Update: January 2006

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NISS Affiliates Program

NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates Program

Update: January 2006

1. 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

2. 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)
Interface 2006: 38th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics (May 24-27, 2006, Pasadena, CA). NISS is a co-sponsor.
Workshop: Statistical Disclosure Limitation for Geospatial Data (Spring 2006, NISS)

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. NISS NEWSLETTER. The January 2006 issue of the NISS Newsletter, available at http://www.niss.org/newsletter/2006-jan.pdf, features a summary of NISS research on secure statistical analysis of distributed databases.

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