Statistics in Defense and National Security
Speakers Program Offered
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presents the Distinguished Achievement Award to a member of the
statistical community. the next presentation of the award will be at
the 2010 Joint statistical meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia,
H
ave you ever wondered what Canada. the purpose of the award is to recognize an outstanding
kind of statistical research accomplishment or a record of sustained contributions at the
helps keep the nation safe from
intersection of the statistical profession and national defense or
biological attacks or helps officials
national security.
understand terrorist networks? Are you
interested in learning what a defense A nomination should include a short description of the basis for the
statistician’s job is like and what kind
award, contact information for both the nominator and nominee,
of problems they face? The ASA
and suggested text for the certificate. A maximum of five seconding
Section on Statistics in Defense and
letters submitted in PDF format are welcome. this recognition does
National Security (SDNS) has a speak-
not include a financial award. Please be aware that unsuccessful
ers program that allows experienced
researchers to answer these and other
nominations from previous years are not, and will not be, carried
questions. Statisticians working in
forward to the next year; therefore, new nomination packages
defense and security are available to
should be prepared for previous nominees. For more information or
speak at your college or university and
to send an electronic nomination, email myron Katzoff at mjk5@cdc.
describe their work while sharing their gov. the deadline for nominations is march 15.
enthusiasm for this field.
The SDNS speakers program aims
to foster communication between
statisticians and familiarize students
with the role of statisticians in defense
and national security. Speakers discuss
Young University spoke at Iowa State Nova Southeastern University about
topics such as biosurveillance, cyber
University (ISU), proposing a flexible a number of statistical methodologies
defense, military force structure, dis-
class of models and an adaptive design for computer intrusion detection and
tributed sensor networks, reliability,
approach to better assess chemical and proposed a framework that incorpo-
and experimental design.
biological threat detection systems. rated everything from the analysis of
Students and faculty acquire access
Reese also guest lectured during ISU’s raw packet flows to the analysis of
to experts in a field to which they
graduate Bayesian analysis course, dis- user behavior. His talk was included
might otherwise have little exposure,
cussing some of his research on Bayesian as part of Nova Southeastern’s math
and academic statisticians gain insight
inference in hierarchical models. awareness month.
into current statistical issues in defense
Alyson Wilson of ISU spoke at Texas If you are interested in having an
and security. Throughout their inter-
A&M University (TAMU) about the sDNs speaker visit your university, visit
action, students and faculty are intro-
use of Bayesian networks in system reli- www.amstat.org/sections/sdns/speakers.
duced to a new point of contact that
ability assessment and the development html. Choose a speaker and contact the
can lead to internships, employment,
of reliability assurance test plans. Her SDNS speaker committee chair, Alyson
and other career opportunities.
lecture was recorded as part of TAMU’s wilson, at agw@iastate.edu with a pro-
The initial funding for the speakers
online learning seminar series. posal. If your proposal is selected, SDNS
program was provided through a 2008
David Marchette of the Naval will supply up to $500 for expenses
ASA member initiative that sponsored
Surface Warfare Center and The related to the visit. n
three talks. Shane Reese of Brigham
Johns Hopkins University spoke at
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