Kickoff Workshop

General Information
Application
Schedule

General Information

The Opening Workshop for the SAMSI program on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory will be held Sunday-Wednesday, September 16-19, 2007, at the Radisson Hotel RTP in Research Triangle Park, NC. On Sunday morning, September 16, tutorials will be offered by Professors Richard Smith, Dipak Dey and Vicky Bier on three different perspectives for defining Risk: Probabilistic - Extreme Values, Decision Theoretic, and Operations Research.

The goals of the Opening Workshop are to take advantage of community input in the formation of the working groups for the program and to promote engagement in person or remotely, via web or teleconference for those not in residence at SAMSI during the program. The Workshop will engage a broadly representative segment of the statistical sciences, applied mathematics, decision analysis and operations research communities in specific research on important applications as well as theory. The workshop program will focus on open problems in both theory and application in areas such as Extreme Event Models and Multivariate Extremes; High-dimensional Decision Analysis; Environmental Risk; Expert Opinion Elicitation and Modeling; Defining, Assessing and Managing Risk. The theme for the Opening Workshop is to connect needed statistical/mathematical research with critical current decision and risk assessment/management problems.

A second workshop, RISK: Perception, Policy and Practice to be held 3-4 October will focus on the implementations of these concepts in areas such as adversarial risk, industrial risk (pharmaceutical and health risk), and risk in the energy sector. Registration is separate for the two workshops.

Program Committee: Vicki Bier (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Dipak Dey (University of Connecticut), Stephen Pollock (University of Michigan), David Rios Insua (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), Lawrence Brown (University of Pennsylvania, National Advisory Committee Liaison), Richard Smith (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Local Scientific Coordinator), Nell Sedransk (NISS, SAMSI Directorate Liaison).

Opening Talks: Howard Kunreuther (University of Pennsylvania) and David Rios Insua (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

Distinguished Lecturer: Christl Donnelly (Imperial College)

Closing Lecturer: Ralph Keeney (Fuqua School, Duke University)

Confirmed Speakers and Invited Discussants: Ali Abbas (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tim Bedford (Strathclyde Business School), Vicki M. Bier (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Bob Clemen (Duke University), Dan Cooley (NCAR/Colorado State), Richard Davis (Columbia University), Dipak Dey (University of Connecticut), Paul Garthwaite (Open University), Eric Gilleland (NCAR), Dougal Goodman (The Foundation for Science and Technology, UK), Yacov Haimes (University of Virginia), James Hammitt (Harvard University), Jonathan Hosking (IBM), Tailen Hsing (University of Michigan), Sheldon Jacobson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tom Knutson (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA), N.D. Shyamal Kumar (University of Iowa), Pilar Munoz (Technical University of Catalonia), Luis Pericchi (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras), Holger Rootzen (Chalmers University of Technology),Fabrizio Rugerri (CNR-IMATI), Lianne Sheppard (University of Washington), Mitchell Small (Carnegie Mellon University), Anne Smith (CRAI), Richard Smith (University of North Carolina), Thomas Wallsten (University of Maryland-College Park), Zhengjun Zhang (University of Wisconsin)

Application

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

Speaker Abstracts

Schedule

Monday, September 17, 2007
Radisson Hotel RTP

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Radisson Hotel RTP

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Radisson Hotel RTP

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