Annual Report 2008.pdf - SAMSI

1.3 Description of Activities
Workshops:
The Opening Workshop will be held during September 2009 at SAMSI. This workshop will aim
to engage as large a part of the statistics, mathematics, and relevant scientific communities as
possible, with representative sessions from all of the main program topics. The Transition
Workshop at the end of the program will disseminate program results and chart a path for future
research in the area. Other workshops being considered include:
A workshop to compare different methods proposed to deal with nonstationary spatial
covariance, in part based on data sets given out in advance.
A workshop that would deal with combining data from different sources with model predictions
to assess, with reliable error estimates, the ocean surface temperature over as long a period as
possible; this is possibly the most important problem in spatial climatology at the moment.
Other Suggestions?
Working Groups:
Working groups will meet throughout the program to pursue particular research topics identified
in the kickoff workshop (or subsequently chosen by the working group participants). The
working groups consist of SAMSI visitors, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and local
faculty and scientists.