Statistics and the Environment
Topic-Contributed Sessions Outlined
Jun Zhu, ENVR Publications Chair
T
he Statistics and the Environment Undergraduate Statisticians: Statistical Methods and Theory for
Section’s annual open business Developing Evidence to Improve Spatial and/or Temporal Data
meeting/mixer is tentatively Environmental Policy Organizer: Jun Zhu of the University of
scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, Organizer: William F. Hunt Jr. of Wisconsin-Madison
August 4. Please join us, catch up with North Carolina State University
old friends, and meet some new faces. Also highly recommended is
Food and drinks will be provided, along Monitoring for Informed Natural Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis of
with a few surprises. Resource Management Decisions Spatial-Temporal Data: Emphasis in
In addition to the five invited ses- Organizer: Joel H. Reynolds of the U.S. Forestry, Ecology, and Environmental
sions and two roundtables announced in Fish and Wildlife Service Sciences, a full-day CE course taught
the May issue of Amstat News, eNVR is by Sudipto Banerjee of the University
sponsoring several topic-contributed ses- New Research in Spatial and of Minnesota and Andrew Finley of
sions at the upcoming JSM. Following Environmental Statistics Michigan State University.
is a list of topics and organizers. For Organizer: Stephan R. Sain of the If you have ideas for invited ses-
details, visit the JSM online pro- National Center for Atmospheric sions for JSM 2010—to be held July
gram at
www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/ Research 31 to August 5 in Vancouver, British
2009/onlineprogram. Columbia, Canada—contact ENVR
Program Chair Petrutza Caragea at
pcaragea@iastate.edu. n
Statistics in Defense and National Security
JSM Sessions Look Promising
Myron Katzoff and Jeff solka, JsM 2009 and 2010 sDNs Program Chairs
T
he Section on Statistics in Defense and National Wednesday, August 5
Security (SDNS) has arranged a group of exciting ses- Quantitative Methods for Combating Bioterrorism
sions for the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings. SDNS is
Roundtable Lunch on Statistics and Operations Research
the main sponsor of two invited sessions, two roundtables
in Defense Analysis, led by Ron Fricker of the Naval
with lunch, three topic-contributed sessions, and two contrib-
Postgraduate School
uted paper/poster sessions. The following is a schedule of the
sessions in which SDNS is the main sponsor.
Applications of Statistics in Defense and Biosurveillance
Sunday, August 2
Thursday, August 6
Statistical Topics in the Defense Industry
Statistics at West Point: No Lies
Monday, August 3
We are also the proud cosponsors of six other sessions that
Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against
include presentations on graphical and network-based models,
Terrorism
building emulators for computer models, spatio-temporal data
analysis, statistics in policy, and ways one can use an undergrad-
Roundtable Lunch on Syndromic Surveillance, led by
uate degree in statistics. All in all, this promises to be an interest-
Henry Rolka of CDC
ing set of sessions. For details, refer to the JSM online program
Poster presentations at 2:00 p.m. at
www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2009/onlineprogram and request
sessions sponsored by the Section on Statistics in Defense and
Tuesday, August 4 National Security. See you in Washington, DC. n
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