Information presented during the CLIM Undergraduate Workshop

1. Undergraduate Workshop on Climate
Extremes
http://www.samsi.info/clim
Elvan Ceyhan
Deputy Director

2. What is SAMSI?
 One of the NSF-DMS funded Math institutes
 Established in 2002…
 Mission: Forge a synthesis of the statistical sciences and the applied
mathematical sciences with disciplinary science to confront the very
hardest and most important data-and model-driven scientific challenges

3. WHAT CAN SAMSI DO FOR YOU?
 Research
Year-long programs
Summer programs
Topical workshops
 Education and Outreach
Graduate student modeling workshop
Undergraduate workshops
Workshops on Promoting Diversity

4. Education and Outreach Activities
 Undergraduate level
– Summer: Modeling Workshop (5 days)
– Fall & Spring: Outreach Workshops (1.5 days)
 Graduate level
– Summer: Industrial Mathematical & Statistical Modeling (IMSM) Workshop
(10 days)
– Fall & Spring: Research Program Courses, Working Groups and Poster
Day/Reception
 Promote Diversity in Math Sciences
– Math Institute Diversity Initiatives
– Annual and Biennial Workshops (MMW @ SACNAS etc.)

5. ONGOING AND UPCOMING YEARLONG
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
2017-18
 Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Climate and the Earth System (CLIM
(www.samsi.info/clim) )
 Quasi-Monte Carlo and High-Dimensional Sampling Methods for Applied Mathematics
(QMC (www.samsi.info/qmc))
2018-19
 Program on Statistical, Mathematical, and Computational Methods for Precision
Medicine (PMED)
 Model Uncertainty: Mathematical and Statistical (MUMS)
 https://www.samsi.info/programs-and-activities/

6. UPCOMING UNDERGRADUATE
WORKSHOPS
2017-18
 Spring Undergraduate Workshop: Feb 26-27, 2018
 (Focus of this 1.5 day workshop is Monte Carlo Methods)
 Undergraduate Modeling Workshop: May 21-25, 2018
 (This 4.5 day workshop involves group projects)
2018-19
 Modern Math Workshop @ SACNAS Annual Conference: October 10-11, 2018, San
Antonio, Texas
 Fall Undergraduate Workshop: October TBA, 2018
 (Focus of this 1.5 day workshop is either MUMS or PMED)
 https://www.samsi.info/programs-and-activities/education-and-outreach/

7. Enjoy The Workshop
Come Visit Us Again
www.samsi.info

8. Schedule of Activities
Time Activities
9:00-9:45 Tutorial on R Software (SAMSI Postdocs)
10:00-11:00 Michael Wehner, LBNL
11:15-12:15 Doug Nychka, NCAR
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-4:30 Lectures and Hands-on Demos (SAMSI Postdocs)
4:30-5:15 Panel on Career Opportunities (SAMSI Postdoc and Graduate
Fellows and
Jared Rennie, Cooperative Institute of Climate and Satellites -
North Carolina (CICS-NC) and National Centers for Environmental
Information (NCEI))
5:15-6:30 Dinner
Monday, October 23, 2017

9. Schedule of Activities
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Time Activities
9:15-10:15 Bo Li,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:30-12:00 Scott Stevens and Jared Rennie,
Cooperative Institute of Climate and Satellites -
North Carolina (CICS-NC) and National Centers
for Environmental Information (NCEI)