Affiliates Update: July 2006

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NISS Affiliates Program

NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates Program

Update: July 2006

1. JSM 2006 EVENTS. Please do come to as many of these as possible.

NISS Fifteenth Anniversary Dinner: Saturday, August 5, 2006, 7:00 PM, Hotel Andra, Seattle.
NISS Affiliates and NISS/SAMSI University Affiliates Lunch: Sunday, August 6, 2006, 11 AM - 2 PM, Seattle Convention Center, Room 4C-1. Items on the agenda include:

* Location and dates for 2007 Affiliates Annual Meeting

* NISS and Affiliates initiatives, including Affiliates Working Groups and Exploration Workshops
Topic Contributed Session: SAMSI Program on National Defense and Homeland Security: 2005-2006, Sunday, August 6, 2:00-3:50 PM, Seattle Convention Center, Room CC-205
SAMSI Invited Session: Statistical Issues in Metabolomics: Monday, August 7, 8:30-10:20 AM, Seattle Convention Center, Room CC-612
NISS/SAMSI Reception: Monday, August 7, 2006, 5-7 PM, Sheraton Seattle, Cirrus Ballroom, featuring announcement of recipients of

* 2006 Sacks Award

* 2006 NISS Distinguished Service Awards

* 2006 NISS New Researcher Fellowships

Affiliates reimbursement accounts may used to attend any of the events listed below in items 2-4.

2. SUMMER AFFILIATES EVENTS

SAMSI Summer School on the Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments (August 11-16, 2006, IRMACS, Simon Fraser University). See http://www.samsi.info/workshops/2006compmod-summer200608.shtml for details.

3. FALL AFFILIATES EVENTS

SAMSI Program on Development, Assessment and Utilization of Complex Computer Models: Opening Workshop and Tutorials (September 10-14, 2006, Radisson RTP).
See http://www.samsi.info/workshops/2006compmod-kickoff200609.shtml for details.
SAMSI Program on High Dimensional Inference and Random Matrices: Opening Workshop and Tutorials (September 17-20, 2006, Radisson RTP).
See http://www.samsi.info/workshops/2006ranmat-opening200609.shtml for details.
Army Conference on Applied Statistics (October 16-20, 2006, Research Triangle Park). NISS is a co-sponsor.
NISS Affiliates Workshop on Chemometrics (Date TBA)

4 . AFFILIATE-HOSTED EVENTS

Sixth Annual Winemiller Conference: Methodological Developments of Statistics in the Social Sciences (October 11-14, 2006, Columbia, MO)

5. 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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