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SAMSI course on 

"Seminar on National Defense and Homeland Security"

Instructors:

Alan Karr, Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and Associate Director of SAMSI

Class Time:  Thursdays, 4:30-6:00pm

Class Location:  NISS Building, Room 104 (directions)

Class begins September 1, 2005

University Listings

Duke                     STA 294A.01

NC State               MA/ST 810T.004

UNC                     BIOS 240.090 (Truong)

COURSE INFORMATION

This seminar-style course will address topics in the statistical and applied mathematical sciences relevant to national defense and homeland security (NDHS). These include:

- Biosurveillance and disease mapping, including the role of social networks
- Data integration and confidentiality
- Anomaly detection, in particular in streaming data
- Computer models, including characterization of baseline variability
- Data quality in massive databases.

Some of these topics will be presented by "guest lecturers" associated with the 2005-06 SAMSI Program on NDHS.

Each student enrolled in the course will be expected to identify and describe a problem in NDHS to which statistical or mathematical modeling is relevant, and to outline one possible approach to the problem.

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