2014-15: E&O: Undergraduate Workshop - October 23-24, 2014

Workshop Information

October 23, 2014 - 8:30am - October 24, 2014 - 12:00pm

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General Information

As part of its Education and Outreach Program for 2014-2015, the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) will offer 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

will be covered in some depth. This workshop will be held on Thursday, October 23, and Friday, October 24 at SAMSI.

Participants are urged to arrive on Wednesday evening and will be able to begin their return home by 12 noon on Friday. Applications received by Monday, September 15, 2014, will receive full consideration.

SAMSI will reimburse appropriate travel expenses as well as provide food and lodging.

Send questions to [email protected]

Schedule

Thursday, October 23, 2014
at SAMSI, Room 150

8:15-8:30 a.m. Shuttle to SAMSI (Meet in Hotel Lobby)
8:30-9:00 Registration
Yize Zhao and Jyotishka Datta
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Introduction
Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI/NCSU and Thomas Gehrmann, SAMSI/NCSU
9:30-10:30 Fred Wright, North Carolina State University
Genomics and Bioinformatics - Can we Handle the Data Onslaught?
10:30-11:30 Paul Brooks, Virginia Commonwealth University
Optimal Living
11:30-12:30 Lunch at SAMSI
12:30-12:45 Shuttle to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) - Meet in the SAMSI Parking Lot
12:45-2:00 Alan Menius and Katja Remlinger, GlaxoSmithKline
Overview of the GSK Research and Tour of Facilities
2:00-2:30 Shuttle back to SAMSI - Meet in GSK Reception
2:30-3:45

Chris Nasrallah, SAMSI/NCSU Postdoc (Yize Zhao and Jyotishka Datta)

A Brief Introduction to Statistical Evolutionary Biology 

3:45-4:45 Shyamal Peddada, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Geometry in Bioinformatics
4:45-5:30 Xiang Ji, Gary Larson, Yuying Xie, Wen Shi, Yize Zhao, Jyotishka Datta
SAMSI Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Panel Discussion: Career in Mathematical Sciences
5:45-6:45 Dinner at SAMSI
7:00 Shuttle to the Sheraton Hotel

Friday, October 24, 2014
at SAMSI, Room 150

8:15-8:30 a.m. Shuttle to SAMSI (Check Out and Meet in Hotel Lobby)
9:00-9:15 Recap: Sujit Ghosh, SAMSI/NCSU
9:15-10:15 Alison Motsinger-Reif, North Carolina State University
Bioinformatics and Genetics in Personalized Medicine
10:15-11:15 Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University
Regression Methods for Genomic Data Analysis
11:30-Noon Adjourn, Box Lunch, and Shuttle to RDU Airport