Template for a SAMSI Workshop Proposal

Latex file of SAMSI Workshop Proposal Template

SAMSI Workshop: Proposal Template

Organizers: Name 1, Name 2, Name 3

Directorate Liaison: Name of Liaison

A proposal for a SAMSI workshop should contain the following items:

Title of proposed workshop

Proposed dates and location
(Workshops of up to around 50 participants are held at SAMSI. Larger events, up to around 150, are held at another facility, in close proximity to SAMSI. Some workshops, particularly co- sponsored ones, are held at other locations.

List of organizers (including the SAMSI Directorate Liaison)

Description:
A brief statement of the workshop's

• rationale
• principal objectives
• target audience, including participants'
  -total number
  -expected education level (e.g., grad students, senior faculty)
  -origins (e.g., academic Math, Stat, or other dept; government; industry)

About half a page normally suffices.

Topics

1. Topic 1
2. Topic 2
3. Topic η

Sponsors

Are any organizations other than SAMSI willing or being asked to act as co-sponsors of the proposed workshop?

Program An outline of the program, including (if available):

-Lectures. How many, approximately what duration, and when?
A rough daily schedule is helpful.

-Session titles and organizers.

-Group activities. Are panel discussions or working group activities planned?

-Poster session. Will there be one? On what day?
SAMSI poster sessions are catered receptions. They are usually scheduled for an hour and a half or two hours during an evening early on in the workshop.

Potential Participants
Preliminary list of invited speakers or participants, with affiliations and departments:

1. Firstname Lastname, University or other affiliation (Dept 1; Dept 2)
2. Exempli Gratia, Duke University (Stat; Math; Electrical & Computer Engineering)
3. *Another person, University affiliation (Statistics; Geoscience)

SAMSI uses this information to assess such factors as balance of senior and junior researchers, geographical distribution, and diversity, as well as suitability for the research content of the workshop. It is important to include women and members of underrepresented minorities (*marking them in some way is helpful). It is not necessary to have obtained prior commitments from proposed speakers, but we encourage you to approach potential speakers, provided you make clear that approval for the workshop has not yet been given and final invitations will only come later.