Undergraduate Workshop - February 21-22, 2013
Workshop Information
NOTE DATE CHANGE
General Information
As part of its Education and Outreach Program for 2012-2013, 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, February 21 and Friday, February 22, 2013 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 Friday, January 25, 2012, will receive full consideration.
SAMSI will reimburse appropriate travel expenses as well as provide food and lodging.
Send questions to ugworkshop@samsi.info
Schedule
Thursday, February 21, 2013
at SAMSI, Room 150
| 8:15-8:30 a.m. | 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 |
| 9:15-11:15 | Avi Mandelbaum, Technion, Israel: Data-based Service Networks and Kenny Lopiano, SAMSI: Tutorial using software at the Technion SEELab server |
| 11:30-Noon | Kumer Das, Lamar University: Stochastic Models in Organ Transplantation |
| Noon-1:30 | Lunch and Frisbee |
| 1:30-4:30 | Eric Laber, NCSU, Garvesh Raskutti, SAMSI, and Kristin Linn, NCSU and SAMSI Overview of Personalized Medicine and tutorial using R (leaps and rpart packages) |
| 4:50-5:30 | Graduate students and post-docs: Panel Discussion |
| 5:45-6:45 | Dinner |
| 7:00 | Shuttle to the Radisson |
Friday, February 22, 2013
at SAMSI, Room 150
| 8:15-8:30 a.m. | Shuttle to SAMSI (meet in the hotel lobby) |
| 9:00-9:15 | Recap: Snehalata Huzurbazar, SAMSI |
| 9:15-11:15 | Nilay Argon, UNC: The Role of Computer Simulation in Healthcare and Zhankun Sun and Han Ye, UNC: Demonstration of ARENA software |
| 11:30-Noon | Karem Jackson, SAMSI: Logistics on filling out reimbursement paperwork! |
| Noon | Adjourn Box lunch and shuttle to RDU Airport |