Workshop onCollaborations in the

Mathematical Geosciences

October 6-7, 2005

Outline

• NISS and SAMSI

• About the Workshop

• Thanks

• Participate! Participate! Participate!

National Institute ofStatistical Sciences

NISS Basics

• A national institute that serves the statistical sciences community by– Performing and stimulating high-impact research

at critical interfaces between statistics and disciplinary science, as well as between industry/government and academia

– Supporting career development at all levels, with special emphasis on postdoctorals

– Engaging the national community in a variety of activities, especially but not exclusively by means of its affiliates programs and SAMSI

NISS Research Projects

• Are government- or industry-funded– Respond to national needs as well as issues raised by affiliates

• Are driven by disciplinary needs• Target interfaces

– Between the statistical sciences and disciplinary sciences– Between industry/government and academia

• Involve senior researchers, postdocs, students from multiple disciplines and across the country

• Are mixture of long-term involvement and shorter-term explorations subsequently taken up by others

• Leverage NISS’ partnership with SAMSI to increase community participation and impact

Project Areas • Digital Government: disclosure risk vs. data utility; data quality

– Funding: NSF DG (CISE), BLS, BTS, Census, NASS, NCES– Collaborators from: partner agencies, CMU, Duke, ISU, Penn State, Purdue, SMU

• Software engineering: lightweight instrumentation of fielded software– Funding: NSF ITR (CISE)– Collaborators from GA Tech, U MD, U WA, Vanderbilt

• Dynamics of social networks: Comparison of p* and intelligent agent models– Funding: NSF MSBS (DMS & SBE)– Collaborators from CMU, Duke, NCSU, UNC

• Pharmacophore identification– Funding: Hereditary Disease Foundation/High-Q Foundation– Patent pending for PharmID

• Task Force on High School Graduation, Completion and Dropout Rates– Funding: NCES– NISS-developed indicators endorsed by National Association of Governors

Statistical andApplied Mathematical Sciences

Institute

SAMSI Basics• Vision: New synthesis of statistical sciences and

applied mathematical sciences with disciplinary science to confront difficult data- and model-driven scientific challenges

• Structure: Partnership of – Duke University– North Carolina State University– University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill– NISS

• Research: Basic research in the statistical and applied mathematical sciences, framed by disciplinary needs

SAMSI Programs

• 2-3 research programs per year, at interfaces– Involve both statistics and applied math– Often involve probability, computational sciences, OR

• 2005-06– Astrostatistics– Financial Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics– National Defense and Homeland Security

• 2007-06– Development, Assessment and Utilization of Complex

Computer Models – Random Matrices and High-Dimensional Inference

Opportunities for Participation

• Undergraduates– SAMSI/CRSC Undergraduate Workshops (1 day, 2 day, 1

week)• Graduate students

– Research programs– IMSM Workshops (10 days)

• Postdocs– 2+ year appointments, in collaboration with NISS,

universities, … • Established (and new) researchers

– Workshops – Research visits (short- and long-term) – SAMSI-University Fellowships– Program proposals and leadership

19 T. W. Alexander DriveResearch Triangle Park, NC

More Information

www.niss.org www.samsi.info

About the Workshop

Manifesto• Focus: research issues lying at interfaces of the

mathematical and statistical sciences and the geosciences. Examples:– Mathematical and statistical modeling of large, complex

geosystems– Representing uncertainty in geosystems– Analyzing large geoscience data sets

• Emphases– The future– Extending CMG into areas of the mathematical and

geophysical sciences that are not currently reached– Active participation by all attendees (more to follow)– New researchers

Manifesto—2

• Outcomes: sharper identification of– Research needs and approaches at the interface of

the mathematical and statistical sciences and the geosciences

– Collaborations to address the issues

Thanks

• NSF– Financial support– Advice

• NISS and SAMSI staff

• Organizing Committee

• Y’all!

Participate!!!

• Poster Sales Talks (11:30 AM today)– 2 minutes, no visual aids

• Poster Session (6:30 PM today)• Two-Minute Madness (3:00 PM today)

– 2 minutes, no visual aids

• Breakout discussions– 4:30 PM today: by GEO topic– 11:30 AM tomorrow: by MATH/STAT topic

• New researcher session (10:30 AM tomorrow)– 10 minutes, up to 6 overheads– Volunteers needed!