Location
This workshop was held on Thursday, February 20, and Friday, February 21 at SAMSI.
Description
As part of its Education and Outreach Program for 2013-2014, the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) hosted a two-day undergraduate workshop on topics of current interest in statistics and applied mathematics. In addition to an overview of current and planned SAMSI Research Programs, the program topic
was covered in some depth.
Questions: email [email protected]
Schedule and Supporting Media
Thursday, February 20, 2014
at SAMSI, Room 150
8:15-8:30 | Shuttle to SAMSI (meet in the hotel lobby) |
8:30-9:00 | Registration |
9:00-9:15 | Welcome and Introduction Snehalata Huzurbazar, SAMSI, and Jamie Nunnelly, SAMSI and NISS |
9:15-10:00 | Ilse Ipsen, N.C. State University Rolling the Dice on Big Data |
10:15-11:00 | Peter Kim, University of Guelph From Survey Sampling to Bioinformatics |
11:30-1:00 | Lunch and Frisbee |
1:00-1:45 | Persistent Homology: an approach to complex data analysis Giseon Heo, University of Alberta |
2:00-3:45 | Tutorial on LDHD data analysis using R SAMSI Post-docs: Sanvesh Srivastatva, Minh Pham, Wenjing Liao |
4:00-5:00 | Graduate students and post-docs: Panel Discussion Kelly Bodwin (UNC), James Nance (N.C. State), John Goes (University of Minnesota) |
5:30-6:45 | Dinner |
7:00 | Shuttle to the hotel |
Friday, February 21, 2014
at SAMSI, Room 150
8:15-8:30 | Shuttle to SAMSI (meet in the hotel lobby) |
9:00-9:15 | Recap: Snehalata Huzurbazar, SAMSI |
9:15-10:10 | Geometry and Topology in Statistical Inference Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University |
10:15-Noon | LDHD Data Analysis with real data SAMSI post-docs: Sanvesh Srivastava, Minh Pham, Wenjing Liao |
Noon | Adjourn Box lunch and shuttle to RDU Airport |