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2009-10 Education and Outreach Program

SAMSI Two-Day Undergraduate Workshop

February 26-27, 2010

General Information
Application
Schedule

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General Information

As part of its Education and Outreach Program for 2009-2010, 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

Stochastic Dynamics

will be covered in some depth.

This workshop will be held on February 26-27, 2010 at SAMSI. The program will begin at 9:30 AM on Friday, February 26, and will be completed by 12 noon on Saturday, February 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, January 22, 2010, will receive full consideration.

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

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Schedule

Friday, February 26, 2010
NISS/SAMSI Building

8:20 AM	Shuttle from Radisson to SAMSI (Group #1)
8:40	Shuttle from Radisson to SAMSI (Group #2)
9:00	Shuttle from Radisson to SAMSI (Group #3)
9:15-9:30	Welcome and Introduction Pierre Gremaud, NCSU and SAMSI
9:30-10:20	Scott Schmidler, Duke University Markov chains, networks, and molecules
10:20-10:50	Introduction to R Xueying Wang, SAMSI
10:50-11:10	Break
11:10-12:00	John McSweeney, SAMSI Epidemics on graphs
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00	R lab related to McSweeney's application
2:00-2:50	Avanti Athreya, SAMSI Random walks and Brownian motion
2:50-3:20	Break
3:20-4:10	Oliver Diaz, SAMSI
4:10-4:40	MATLAB demo Xueying Wang, SAMSI
4:40-5:00	Pierre Gremaud, N.C. State University and SAMSI Career Options
5:00	Shuttle to Radisson (Group #1)
5:20	Shuttle to Radisson (Group #2)
5:40	Shuttle to Radisson (Group #3)
6:00	Dinner at Radisson Hotel

Saturday, February 27, 2010
NISS/SAMSI Building

8:00 AM	Shuttle from Radisson to SAMSI (Group #1)
8:20 AM	Shuttle from Radisson to SAMSI (Group #2)
8:40 AM	Shuttle from Radisson to SAMSI (Group #3)
9:00-9:50	Cindy Greenwood, Arizona State University Why Stochastic Dynamics?
9:50-10:40	Bruce Rogers, SAMSI Random graphs and linear algebra
10:40-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	MATLAB lab related to Rogers' application
12:00 PM	Adjournment and Departure
12:00	Shuttle to Radisson (Group #1)
12:30	Shuttle to Radisson (Group #2)
1:00	Shuttle to Radisson (Group #3)

Please send questions to [email protected]

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