JSM Affiliates Lunch/Meeting on Sunday, August 7 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
in the Directors Row Room # 3, Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis

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."

NISS/SAMSI JSM Reception on Monday, August 8 from 5-7 PM
Salon B, Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis

** 2005 Sacks Award recipient will be announced at the reception **

SAMSI-organized invited session "Latent Variables in Science and Statistics," on Tuesday, August 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."