Undergraduate Workshop - October 26-27, 2012
Workshop Information
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 October 26-27, 2012 at SAMSI. The program will begin at 9:30 AM on Friday, October 26, and will be completed by 12 noon on Saturday, October 27.
Participants are urged to arrive on Thursday evening and will be able to begin their return home by 12 noon on Saturday. Applications received by Friday, September 28, 2012, will receive full consideration.
SAMSI will reimburse appropriate travel expenses as well as provide food and lodging.
Send questions to [email protected]
Schedule
Friday, October 26, 2012
at SAMSI, Room 150
| 8:15-8:30 a.m. | Shuttle to SAMSI (meet in the hotel lobby) |
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00-9:20 | Welcome and Introduction Snehalata Huzurbazar, Karem Jackson, Jamie Nunnelly |
| 9:20-9:40 | Overview of Statistical and Computational Methodology for Massive Datasets Naomi Altman, Dept. of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University |
| 9:40-10:10 | Big Data in Observational Astronomy Jogesh Babu, Dept. of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University |
| 10:10-10:40 | Reducing the Dimension in Regression Problems Andreas Artemiou, Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University |
| 10:40-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-Noon | Panel Discussion: The Road to Industry and Academia Naomi Altman, Dept. of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University Christopher Gotwalt, Director of JMP Statistical Research and Development, SAS Institute Peter Mucha, Dept. of Mathematics, University of North Carolina Amy Nail, President of Honestat, LLC |
| Noon-1:30 | Lunch and Frisbee |
| 1:30-2:00 | Parallel R Bowei Xi, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue University |
| 2:00-3:30 | An Introduction to the R Fields Package: A Practical Tool for Large Spatial Data Dorit Hammerling, Garvesh Raskutti, Dan Yang, Postdoctoral Researchers, SAMSI |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-5:15 | Panel Discussion: The Road to Graduate School and Immediately Beyond Mary Beth Broadbent, PhD student, Statistics, Duke University David Lawlor, Postdoctoral Researcher, SAMSI Kevin Penner, PhD student, Mathematics, North Carolina State University Gina-Maria Pomann, PhD student, Statistics, North Carolina State University |
| 5:45-6:45 | Dinner |
| 6:45 | Shuttle to the Radisson |
Saturday, October 27, 2012
at SAMSI, Room 150
| 8:15-8:30 a.m. | Shuttle to SAMSI (meet in the hotel lobby) |
| 8:45-9:10 | Career Options Snehalata Huzurbazar, SAMSI |
| 9:10-9:40 | Looking at the World at Multiple Scales of Resolution Marco Ferreira, Dept. of Statistics, University of Missouri |
| 9:40-10:10 | PCA, SVD, and JPEGs, ASAP! Nate Burch, SAMSI and Dept. of Mathematics, North Carolina State University |
| 10:10-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-Noon | Overview of Matlab with Wavelets and Image Processing David Lawlor, Yi Grace Wang, Postdoctoral Researchers, SAMSI |
| Noon | Adjourn Shuttle to RDU Airport |