FALL 2016 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 5

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The Newsletter of The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute

SAMSI Current Events

1 ASTRO: 2016-2017 Program Opens with Big Bang

2 Optimization: Opening Workshop Highlights Significance in Industry

3 IMSM: IMSM 2016 Prepares Graduate Students for ’Real World’

Research

SAMSI Blog: Teamwork & Collegiality Key to Success of SAMSI-SAVI

Workshop

4 SAMSI Deputy Director to Speak at UNC-G Helen Barton

Lecture Series

5 Welcome to SAMSI

2016-2017 SAMSI Postdoctoral Fellow

Photo Montage: The SAMSI Experience

6 2015-2016 Academic Visitors for SAMSI Research Programs

Future SAMSI Programs

7 Upcoming Workshops &

Events (2016-2017)

8 SAMSI Spotlight

SAMSI Blog: SAMSI Undergraduate Workshop Inspires Student Growth

SAMSI Information & Contacts

9 Opportunities at SAMSI

10 SAMSI 90-Day Calendar

of Events

T HIS IS SU E:

SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME WE ALL

have often looked at the night sky and

wondered WHAT, if anything, is out

there?

In this ongoing 2016-2017 year-long

SAMSI Program on Statistical,

Mathematical and

Computational

Methods for As-

tronomy (ASTRO),

astro- physicists,

mathematicians

and statisticians

are working to-

gether among

many other things,

to explore better

ways to find the

existence of other

planets, in particular the ones which

have habitable conditions similar to our

own on planet Earth.

This year’s opening workshop for the

ASTRO program was held at the NC

Biotech Center on August 22-26 which

brought together some of the most

brilliant minds in the field to discuss,

among other research topics, the

possibility and existence of other worlds

or “exoplanets.” The workshop featured

a multitude of talks and panel

discussions on the various research

topics that include Astrophysical

2016-2017 ASTRO Program

Opens with Big Bang

Emulation, Astrophysical Populations

(exoplanets), Gravitational Waves,

Synoptic Time Domain Surveys and

Cosmology.

Over 90 participants from around the

nation and also a from other countries

(Canada, Spain, UK), specializing in

astronomy and astrostatistics

were present for the five day workshop

that featured

speakers from

NASA, Caltech,

Harvard, Penn

State and Yale just

to name a few. The

year-long program

will allow

astrophysicists,

mathematicians

and statisticians to

collaborate via

virtual media (e.g., weekly webex

meetings) and they will be working

together for the next nine months. They

will analyze huge size data and explore

better ways to improve current

methodologies based on stellar

observations produced by spectrographs

and other ground-based and space-based

astronomical surveys.

Currently, one of the emphases in the

astronomy field is to find the existence

of exoplanets and/or other worlds that

have the potential to support life.

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There was a wide variety of presentations,

with speakers from academia, of course,

but also industry (the oil and gas company

ExxonMobil, and the online advertising

company MaxPoint Interactive Inc.) and

the National Labs (Argonne, Livermore,

and Sandia-

Albuquerque).

A special two-

hour session

gave partici-

pants a

glimpse at the

challenging

research

problems

faced by the National Labs.

Much like attendees from the Summer

School, feedback from the participants was

overwhelmingly positive.

A number of mid-program events are in the

works. The Workshop on the Interface of

Statistics and Optimization (WISO) in

February 2017 is planned as a high-profile

event. It will be lived-streamed for a

national and international audience and will

feature the pioneers in this area, by giving

their work prominent visibility to a broad

audience.

Overall, the researchers in attendance got

a chance to see how their specialized

research could contribute to these

industries. The Optimization Program runs

from August through the end of May in

2017. For those interested in learning more

about this program and its various working

groups, visit: www.samsi.info/opt.

As this is a hot topic in the astronomy

field, scientists and mathematicians are

focusing their efforts on finding these

exoplanets right here in our own galaxy.

By trying to locate exoplanets, the po-

tential exists for probes to be sent to

explore these regions for earth-like

planets.

Eric Fiegelson, a Distinguished Senior

Scholar and Professor from Penn State’s

Astronomy and Astrophysics Department,

was one of the attendees and was one of

the speakers for the opening workshop.

Fiegelson was extremely excited about

this opportunity to work with other re-

searchers in order to learn how both as-

trophysicists and astrostatisticians can

bring their collective experience and

knowledge to the table in order to poten-

tially lead to the discovery of other ex-

oplanets.

Over the past 25 years Fiegelson has

been involved in astronomy and teaching,

he said, “This event was the first time I

have ever seen a room filled with nearly

50% astronomers and 50% statisticians…

SAMSI made this possible!” Fiegelson

explained why this was significant

because until now, the two disciplines in

the science of astronomy rarely worked

together on a grand level research

endeavor like this.

The ASTRO program, which started in

August of this year will be ongoing

through May, 2017. To see what other

interesting topics and workshops will be

discussed in this program, visit:

www.samsi.info/astro.

NOTE: To read the entire story about the

ASTRO Opening Workshop CLICK HERE, or

visit our website under the News and Media

Tab.

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S A M S I: CURRENT EVENTS (cont.) SAMSI Brings Together

Researchers in Optimization

for Program Opening

Workshop

MANY

PROBLEMS

IN

mathematics,

statistics,

science,

engineering,

and everyday

life revolve

around the

choice of a best selection to achieve a

specified goal: finding the fastest way

to the airport, or the best rice cooker

for under $100. From a mathematical

point of view, optimization often

amounts to finding the maximal value

of a function.

The vibrant SAMSI program on

Optimizations has produced an

outstanding number of 13 research

working groups, which are concerned

with fundamental methodology and

computational methods for

optimization, and applications of

optimization to radio therapy; decision

analysis; energy and the environment;

and electronic structure models in

physics, chemistry and materials

science; among many others.

It is the mission of the 2016-17 SAMSI

Optimization program to capitalize

on and advance this synergy. The

program aims to guide the interaction

between mathematics and statistics, so

as to produce benefits for each area

individually, but also combined.

More than 90 students and postdocs

attended the Summer School in August

2016, which featured a lively mix of

tutorials and hands-on interactive labs,

where participants were introduced to

state-of-the-art software. The Opening

Workshop two weeks later signaled the

official start of the research program.

More than 130 participants attended

the workshop.

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team-based research in a time-

constrained environment – a practice that

is key to achieving results in industry and

government labs. The group of students

was dynamic, representing such

disciplines as Geophysics, Engineering,

Biology and of course Applied

Mathematics and Statistics. The diversity

of students played a pivotal role in helping

the teams to develop

synergy through their

collective strengths

and experience in

order to reach a

common goal. Most

students were excited

about the opportunity

to attend and

collectively looked

forward to the challenges presented in the

IMSM workshop. In the end, industry and

lab partners as well as the students

benefitted from the experience of

producing research results that have the

potential to advance modern applications

of this research.

Overall the consensus of the graduate

students was that this workshop was

helpful in preparing them for their future

contributions in research. The IMSM is a

valuable tool for industry as well.

Industries actively seek qualified up and

coming researchers by being a part of

workshops like this and the research

gained also has the potential to advance

the work in their various research. As the

workshop closed, the students spent their

last night dining together and reflecting on

the experiences they shared over the

previous week and a half with peers and

faculty and industry mentors in the

program.

Planning and scheduling by SAMSI has

begun for the 2017 IMSM; applications for

the workshop next year will be accepted in

January. To find out more and apply,

interested graduate students should visit

the SAMSI website at:

www.samsi.info/IMSM17.

NOTE: To read the entire story about the

2016 IMSM CLICK HERE, or visit our

website under the News and Media Tab.

SAMSIBlog: Teamwork

&Collegiality Key to Success

of the SAMSI-SAVI Workshop

AS A PHD

candidate at

Yale

University’s

School of

Forestry and

Environmental

studies, I

spend much of

my year

designing and

implementing

my research

projects in

some of the most sensitive communities

in urban India. Through the course of my

fieldwork and data collection, I have

learned to rely on the expertise of local

community members if I want to achieve

my research goals. These relationships

can take a significant amount of time to

build and nurture to a fruitful collaboration

stage, which is why I was pleasantly

surprised by how quickly the teamwork

and collegiality came together in the first

week of June, at the SAMSI-SAVI

workshop in Mumbai.

Against the backdrop of the sweltering

Mumbai summer, the workshop on

Statistical Methods and Analysis of

Environmental Health Data was an

oasis in more ways than one. Leading

participants from Indian and U.S.

institutions came together for this

inaugural workshop at the brand new

Harvard centre in Mumbai, to discuss the

cutting edge methods in statistical

analysis of environmental health data.

For me, the best part about the workshop

was the balance between methods-based

talks (from Prof. Francesca Dominici and

Prof. Donna Spiegelman and my own

adviser Prof. Michelle Bell, among others)

and summaries of the ongoing work in

India (from Prof. Kalpana Balakrishnan,

senior scientists in a variety of depart-

ments at the Public Health Foundation of

India, and Dr. Mohan Thanikachalam).

The interspersed talks provided a

well-rounded picture of the ongoing

work in India, as well as the critical-

Contributed by: Amrutasri

Nori-Sarma , Yale University

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S A M S I: CURRENT EVENTS (cont.) IMSM 2016 Prepares

Graduate Students for ‘Real

World’ Research

THE SUN SET ON A HOT JULY DAY

across the street from North Carolina

State University, signaling the end of

another positive experience in research.

Nearly 40 Graduate Students, of various

science, applied

mathematics and

statistics backgrounds

celebrated their

accomplishments and

experiences after

attending the 2016

Industrial Mathematical

and Statistical Modeling

Workshop (IMSM) for

Graduate Students in Raleigh, N.C.,

July 18-27.

This year marked the 22nd anniversary

of the IMSM workshop, a major

educational outreach component of the

Statistical and Applied Mathematical

Sciences Institute (SAMSI). Each year,

SAMSI invites graduate students from

across the country to attend a 10-day

workshop, where various industrial and

government agencies partner with

academia to solve “real world” problems

that impact our lives.

This year, SAMSI was pleased to have

representatives from: Sandia National

Laboratories; Rho, Inc.; the US Army

Corps of Engineers (USACE);

Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA); Pfizer; and the Cooperative

Institute for Climate and Satellites

(CICS). The IMSM workshop is

sponsored by SAMSI as well as the

Department of Mathematics and the

Center for Research in Scientific

Computation (CRSC) at N.C. State

University.

The IMSM workshop introduces

graduate students to the effective

application of academic knowledge

towards solving everyday problems.

Students also learned valuable skills

about time management and

research gaps that remain to be filled.

This environment -was further enhanced

by the working group discussions around

specific data sets that have been

collected by our colleagues in India,

which they shared with the groups for

discussion and analysis.

Midway through the workshop,

attendees were invited by Dr. Swati

Piramal to join her for a conference

dinner at the Piramal tower. The

collaborative discussions continued in the

ballroom over dinner and drinks,

surrounded by Dr. Piramal’s beautiful art

collection. I was able to use this dinner to

catch up with my research collaborator

Dr. Prakash Gupta, head of the

Healis-Seksaria Institute, who is one of

the pioneering health data scientists in

India working with a cohort that he has

been building for 20+ years. I’m excited

about the possibility of other similar Indo

-US collaborations, which might have

their origins at this workshop…

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the study of dose response curve

in the phase I clinical trials.

the estimation of the monotone

hazard rates and the mean residual

life functions in reliability and

survival analysis and many more

In addition to theoretical results and

applications, the lectures also featured

demos of R

software packages

that can be used to

compute various

statistical data and

graphics.

Ghosh has served

as the Deputy

Director at SAMSI

since 2014 and will

be completing his

term of service in

2017. He has

served as the

Co-Director of

Graduate

Programs in

Statistics at North

Carolina State

University, where

he managed over

150 students

annually from

2010 – 2013. Before serving in his

current role at SAMSI, Ghosh served as

the Program Director in the Division of

Mathematical Sciences within the

Directorate of Mathematical and

Physical Sciences at the National

Science Foundation from 2013 – 2014.

To see more information about Dr.

Ghosh’s lecture or other upcoming

events for the Helen Barton Lecture

series, visit their webpage:

http://www.uncg.edu/mat/talks/lecture

-series-mat.html.

S A M S I: CURRENT EVENTS (cont.)

SAMSI Deputy Director to

Deliver Helen Barton Lecture

Series at UNC-G

DR. SUJIT GHOSH, DEPUTY

DIRECTOR of the Statistical and Applied

Mathematical Sciences Institute

(SAMSI), was

invited by the

University of

North Carolina-

Greensboro’s

Department of

Mathematics and

Statistics to

present a series

of three lectures

this past fall as

part of the Helen

Barton Lecture

Series in

Mathematical

Sciences.

The lecture series

has been a fixture

in the academic

community since

2012 and the

target audience

for these talks

were graduate

and upper level undergraduate students

and faculty members. Dr. Ghosh is one

of many distinguished mathematicians/

statisticians who have been invited to

speak for the series.

Ghosh’s three-part series, entitled,

“Statistical Inference Subject to

Shape Constraint,” took place in

November.

The focus of Dr. Ghosh’s talk was

presenting an introductory overview of

lectures on statistical inference for

density and regression function

estimations that are known to preserve a

set of shape constraints. Some popular

applications included the study of:

utility functions, cost functions, and

profit functions in economics.

the analysis of growth rates as a

function of various environmental

factors.

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W E L C O M E T O S A M S I

Ahmed Attia

Optimization

Peter Diao

Optimization

Sercan Yildiz

Optimization

David Jones

Astronomy

David Stenning

Astronomy

Hyungsuk Tak

Astronomy

PHOTO MONTAGE: The SAMSI Experience

NEW 2016 SAMSI Postdoctoral Fellows

SAMSI Welcomes our six new Postdoctoral fellows for 2016. They will be

participating in the 2016-2017 Research Programs: Program on Statistical,

Mathematical & Computational Methods for Astronomy (ASTRO) and the

Program on Optimization (OPT).

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W E L C O M E T O S A M S I ( c o n t . )

SAMSI Academic Visitors for 2015-2016 Year-Long

Research Programs

ASTRO

Jogesh Babu, Penn State

University, Statistics

Eric Fiegelson, Penn State

University, Astronomy

Eric Ford, Penn State University,

Astronomy

James Long, Texas A&M

University, Statistics

Ilya Mandel, University of

Birmingham (UK), Astrophysics

Jessi Cisewski, Yale University,

Statistics

Rebekah Dawson, Penn State

University, Astronomy &

Astrophysics

James Long, Texas A&M

University, Statistics

Ben Farr, University of Chicago,

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Matthew Graham, Caltech,

Astronomy

Ashish Mahabal, Caltech,

Astrophysics

Richard O’Shaughnessy, RIT,

Astrophysics

David Van Dyk, Imperial College,

Astrostatistics

Sashi Kanbur, SUNY-Oswego,

Astrophysics

Daniel Wysocki, RIT, Astropyhsics

Konstantin Yakunin, University of

Tennessee, Physics

Zhengfeng Lin, Texas A&M

University, Statistics

Angie Wolfgang, Penn State

University, Astrophysics

Jim Barrett, University of

Birmingham (UK), Astrophysics

Program on Mathematical &

Statistical Methods

for Climate & the

Earth System

Program Dates:

August 1, 2017 -

May 31, 2018

This year-long research program will

study the interrelations among climate

data, climate models and impacts with a

view towards projecting future climate

change and its impact on earth systems

and the human population.

Opening Workshop:

August 21-25, 2017

Steering Committee: Chris Jones

(UNC-Chapel Hill); Doug Nychka

(NCAR); Brian Reich (N.C. State)

SAMSI Directorate Liaison:

Richard Smith (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Visit: www.samsi.info/clim

Email questions: climate@samsi.info

Our SAMSI visitors will be responsible for

supporting the research and collaboration

of this academic year’s ASTRO and

Optimization Programs. We welcome

them to SAMSI and look forward to their

collective contributions to this research:

OPTIMIZATION

Vanja Dukic, University of Colorado-

Boulder, Mathematics & Statistics

David Bortz, University of Colorado-

Boulder, Mathematics

Xiamong Huo, Georgia Tech,

Industrial & Systems Engineering

Cheng Huang, Georgia Tech,

Industrial & Systems Engineering

Christina Mueller, University of

Trier, Mathematics

Laura Somorovsky, University of

Trier, Mathematics

Martin Rupp, University of Trier,

Math & Statistics

Ekkehard Sachs, University of Trier,

Mathematics

Julian Wagner, University of Trier,

Mathematics & Statistics

Katrin Welker, University of Trier,

Mathematics & Statistics

Chuanping Yu, Georgia Tech,

Industrial & Systems Engineering

Hua Zhou, UCLA, Biostatistics

F U T U R E SAMSI Programs (2017-2018)

Program on Quasi-Monte Carlo &

High-Dimensional Sampling Methods

for Applied Mathematics

Program Dates:

August 1, 2017 - May 31, 2018

The goal of the SAMSI program is to

explore the potential of QMC and other

deterministic, randomized and hybrid

sampling methods for a wide range of

applications.

Opening Workshop:

August 28-September 1, 2017

Program Leaders: Art Owen

(Stanford); Fred Hickernell (Illinois

Institute of Technology); Frances Kuo

(University of S. Wales-AUS); Pierre

L’Ecuyer (Université de Montréal-CAN)

SAMSI Directorate Liaison: Ilse Ipsen (N.C. State)

Visit: www.samsi.info/qmc Email questions: qmc@samsi.info

Workshops:

Time Series Analysis for Synoptic

Surveys & Gravitational Wave

Astronomy

March20 - 23, 2017

See HERE for more details

Astrophysical Population Emulation &

Uncertainty Quantification -

April 3 - 7, 2017

See HERE for more details

Transition Workshop - May 8 -10, 2017

See HERE for more details

For more information and updates

about this program, visit:

www.samsi.info/astro

Workshops:

Workshop on Statistical Inverse

Problems - January 26-27, 2017

See HERE for more details

Workshop on the Interface of

Statistics & Optimization (WISO) -

February 8 -10, 2017

See HERE for more details

Workshop on Mixed-Integer PDE-

Constrained Optimization -

March 29 - 31, 2017

See HERE for more details

Transition Workshop -

May 1 - 3, 2017

See HERE for more details

For more information and updates

about this program, visit:

www.samsi.info/opt

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U PCOMING WORKSHOPS & EVENTS (2016-2017)

Program on Optimization (OPT)

Program Director/

Directorate Liaison:

Ilse Ipsen ,

Assoc. Director, SAMSI

Program on Statistical,

Mathematical & Computational

Methods for Astronomy

(ASTRO)

Program Director/

Directorate Liaison:

Sujit Ghosh,

Deputy Director,

SAMSI

Have you recently

attended a SAMSI

program and would like to tell

us about it?

Send us your pictures and/or a

short-story for our SAMSI BLOG or

email us at: info@samsi.info

SAMSI OPENS SEARCH FOR

NEW DIRECTOR AND

DEPUTY DIRECTOR

Director: For more details on this

position, please visit the webpage:

www.samsi.info/director-2018

Deputy Director: For more details on

this position, please visit the webpage:

www.samsi.info/ddir-2017

Jobs at SAMSI:

Other Opportunities at SAMSI:

VISITING NEW RESEARCH

FELLOWS

New Researcher Fellowships are for out-

standing researchers who have recently

received their Ph.D. Appointments are for

semester to year-long residencies. For more

information, please see the

Visiting New Researcher Fellows page.

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Postdoctoral fellowships are available,

associated with individual SAMSI programs.

Appointments begin in August. They are

typically for two years and are made jointly

between SAMSI and one of its partner

universities. Extremely competitive salaries

are offered. For more information on current

postdoc openings, please see the

Post-Doctoral Fellows page.

VISITING GRADUATE FELLOWS

Graduate Fellow positions are available for

students whose mentors are also Visiting

Research Fellows at SAMSI. For more

information, please see

Visiting Graduate Fellows page.

SAMSI is an AA/EEO employer.

View our policies.

FROM MAY 22-26, 2016, I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF

participating in the SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical

Sciences Institute) Interdisciplinary Workshop for

Undergraduate Students. In my quest for statistical research,

I learned about SAMSI after coming across a paper on Markov

chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods written by the Deputy

Director of SAMSI, Sujit K. Ghosh. A statistics alumnus from

UCLA had previously mentioned SAMSI to me before, so when I

came across Dr. Ghosh’s paper, I was compelled to find out more

about this program he and Dr. Ghosh endorsed. A few months

later, I found myself at SAMSI learning about random walks and

the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm from Dr. Ghosh himself.

The SAMSI Experience…

The day after arriving in North

Carolina, the workshop

commenced with a presentation by

the Director of SAMSI, Dr. Richard

Smith, on statistical reasoning in

public and the complexity of small

and large data sets. Throughout this first day of the workshop, we heard more data talks

from different sources in order to investigate a variety of questions related to several ex-

citing and emerging areas of research. The research projects available to us ranged

from the overall complex dynamic behavior of the brain and nervous system to measur-

ing climate change through dolphin migration patterns. After the talks ended, the other

students and I broke up into groups of 5-9 and were assigned to the research project we

selected. Before the first day was over, we got to know our group members and learned

of all the different majors we were. This miscellany of majors initially struck us as inexpe-

dient, but throughout

the week, we learned

that bringing together

minds from different

backgrounds, qualifi-

cations, and experi-

ences is key to effec-

tive problem-solving.

Research Group

Projects…

While our morning and

afternoon activities

varied, our evenings

remained dutifully

allotted for our

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Contributed by:

Joanna Itzel

Navarro, Statistics

Undergraduate,

University of

California-

Los Angeles

BLOG POST: SAMSI Undergraduate Workshop

Inspires Student Growth

hen we found ourselves stumped, all

it took was one group member to pose a

provoking question or novel information

to furnish the impetus that moved us

forward.”

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research projects and group work. After

an eventful day, we came back every

evening to find ourselves huddled around

desks and ripe for our research projects.

My research group was under the

guidance of Duke’s newest, congenial

statistics postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Adam

Jaeger, and our research examined

how various environmental factors predict

behaviors of bottlenose dolphins in the

Northern North Carolina Estuarine

System (NNCES) stock in Roanoke

Sound, North Carolina. Furthermore, our

research sought to discover how water

temperature relates to the presence of

dolphins and whether a change in the

frequency of dolphins could be

indicative of climate change.

Learning Through Diverse Perspec-

tives…

The amalgam of majors in our group was

certainly a recipe for a wide range of

questions and approaches, and we no-

ticed this especially in the beginning.

This led us to adopt a multidisciplinary

approach, and by the end of the program,

we had molded ourselves into your

quintessential, diverse research team.

When we found ourselves stumped, all it

took was one group member to pose a

provoking question or novel information

to furnish the impetus that moved us

forward. We were all challenged to work

out our differences and use our diver-

sions as opportunities; we learned to

anticipate alternative viewpoints and to

expect that reaching a consensus would

take effort and strong reasoning.

NOTE: This was an extract from the original

post, to read the entire Blog Post, visit our

SAMSI blog.

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O PPORTUNITIES AT SAMSI

The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) is soliciting applications from statistical and mathematical

scientists for up to 6 postdoctoral positions for the SAMSI Research Programs for 2017-2018: Program on Mathematical and

Statistical Methods for Climate and the Earth System (CLIM) and Program on Quasi-Monte Carlo and High-Dimensional

Sampling Methods for Applied Mathematics (QMC). Appointments will begin in August 2017 and will typically be for two

years, although they can also be arranged for one year. Appointments are made jointly between SAMSI and one of its partner

universities, where teaching opportunities may be available. The positions offer extremely competitive salaries, travel stipend, and

health insurance benefits.

Criteria for selection of SAMSI Postdoctoral Fellows include demonstrated research ability in statistical and/or applied

mathematical sciences, excellent computational skills and the ability to communicate both verbally and in written form. Finally, the

preferred applicant will have a strong interest in the SAMSI program areas offered. The deadline for full consideration is December

15, 2016, although later applications will be considered as resources permit.

Please specify which of the two SAMSI research programs you are applying for in your cover letter and why you believe you would

be a good fit for SAMSI and the program you choose.

To apply, go to mathjobs.org: SAMSIPD2017 Job #8986

To see these programs visit: www.samsi.info/qmc and www.samsi.info/clim

SAMSI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2017

S AMSI INFORMATION & CONTACTS Directorate:

Richard Smith

SAMSI Director

UNC-Chapel Hill

Sujit Ghosh

SAMSI Deputy

Director

N.C. State

Ilse Ipsen

SAMSI Assoc.

Director

N.C. State

Tom Witelski

SAMSI Assoc.

Director

Duke

Tom

Gehrmann

NCSU

Program Asst.

tgehrmann@samsi.info

Rita Fortune

Finance

Analyst

rita@samsi.info

Karem Jackson

Workshop

Specialist

kjackson@samsi.info

Sue McDonald

Senior Program

Coordinator

sue@samsi.info

Rick Scoggins

Communications

Manager

rick@samsi.info

Karen Poole

UNC-Chapel Hill

Accounting

Technician

poolek@email.unc.edu

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Gordon Campbell

SAMSI Operations

Director

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AMSI 90-DAY CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Optimization

Courses (OPT)

ASTRO Courses

Optimization

Workshops (OPT)

ASTRO Workshops

LEGEND:

Numerical OPT & App –Part II

Time Series Methods of Astronomy

Numerical OPT & App –Part II

Numerical OPT & App –Part II

Numerical OPT & App –Part II

Time Series Methods of Astronomy

Time Series Methods of Astronomy

OPT Stat Inverse Problems Workshop

Time Series Methods of Astronomy

Time Series ASTRO

Time Series Methods of Astronomy

Time Series Methods of Astronomy

Numerical OPT & App –Part II

OPT & App - Part II

Numerical OPT & App –Part II

Numerical OPT & App –Part II

O P T U n d e rg ra d u a te W o rksh o p

ASTRO: Time Series Analysis for Synoptic Surveys & Gravitational Wave Astronomy

O P T W I S O W o r k s h o p

ASTRO Time Series

ASTRO Time Series

OPT & App - Part II

Numerical OPT & App –Part II

Numerical OPT & App –Part II

Time Series Methods of Astronomy

Time Series Methods of Astronomy

Time Series Methods of Astronomy

COURSES:

Optimization

Numerical Optimization & Applications - Part II (4:30-5:30pm)

ASTRO

Time Series Methods of Astronomy (4:30-7:00pm)

WORKSHOPS:

Optimization

Workshop on Statistical Inverse Problems (Jan. 26-27)

Workshop on the Interface of Statistics & Optimization [WISO] (Feb. 8-10)

Undergraduate Workshop (Feb. 27-28)

Workshop on Mixed-Integer PDE-Constrained Optimization [MIPDECO] (Mar. 29-31)

ASTRO

Time Series Analysis for Synoptic Surveys & Gravitational Wave Astronomy (Mar. 20-23)

ASTRO = Statistical, Mathematical & Computational Methods for Astronomy Program OPT = Optimization Program

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O P T U n d e rg ra d u a te W o rksh o p Numerical OPT & App –Part II