Annual Report 2008.pdf - SAMSI

University of California Los Angeles
Department of Mathematics
lvese@math.ucla.edu
“Variational Models in Image Analysis”
Rene Vidal
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Biomedical Engineering
rvidal@cis.jhu.edu
“Nonrigid Shape and Motion from Multiple Perspective Views”
VIII. Program on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory Opening Workshop
Schedule
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Radisson Hotel RTP
Room H, 3 rd Floor
8:30 – 9:15 Continental Breakfast
9:15 – 9:30 Welcome
Nell Sedransk, SAMSI and NISS
9:30 – 10:30 Tutorial on Extreme Values
Richard Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Tutorial on Decision Theory
“Prior Elicitation”
Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch (Room AB, 2 nd Floor)
1:00 – 2:00 Tutorial on Operations Research
“Operations Research and Risk Analysis”
Vicki M. Bier, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2:00 – 3:00 Registration, Coffee and Refreshments
Opening Lecturers:
3:00 – 4:00 “Risk Analysis and Decision Theory: Issues and Challenges”
David Rios Insua, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos