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Table of Contents 0. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................ I. Annual Progress Report ....................................................................................................... A. Program Personnel ....................................................................................................... List of Programs and Organizers ............................................................................. Program Core Participants ....................................................................................... B. Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates ............................................................................ Overview of Postdoctoral Fellow Program................................................................ 2007-2008 Postdoc Activity and Progress Reports ................................................... Postdoc Experience Evaluation and Career Plans ..................................................... C. Graduate Student Participation ................................................................................... D. Consulted Individuals.................................................................................................... E. Program Activities ......................................................................................................... Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory ............................................... Random Media........................................................................................................... Environmental Sensor Networks ............................................................................... Challenges in Dynamic Treatment and Multistage Decision-Making....................... The Geometry and Statistics of Shape Spaces........................................................... Education and Outreach Program .............................................................................. F. Industrial and Governmental Participation................................................................ G. Publications and Technical Reports............................................................................. H. Diversity Efforts............................................................................................................. I. External Support and Affiliates.................................................................................... J. Advisory Committees..................................................................................................... K. Income and Expenditures.............................................................................................. L. Report from the Institute Directors Meeting .............................................................. II. Special Report: Program Plan.............................................................................................. A. Programs for 2008-2009 ................................................................................................ Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics .............................................. Sequential Monte Carlo Methods .............................................................................. Meta-Analysis............................................................................................................ B. Scientific Themes for Later Years ............................................................................... C. Budget for 2008-2009..................................................................................................... D. Financial Plan for 2008-2009 ........................................................................................ Appendices A. Final Program Report: Development, Assessment and Utilization of Complex Computer Models................................................................................................................. B. Final Program Report: High Dimensional Inference and Random Matrices.......... C. Workshop Participant Lists.......................................................................................... D. Workshop Programs and Abstracts............................................................................. E. Workshop Evaluations ..................................................................................................
I. Annual Progress Report The previous annual progress report was complete in all details only through April, 2007. Hence, we also report activities in Year 5 programs that occurred subsequently and were not itemized in the report. These Year 5 programs were Development, Assessment and Utilization of Complex Computer Models and High Dimensional Inference and Random Matrices; their final reports are in Appendices A and B, respectively. 1. Program and Activity Organizers A. Program Personnel Program Organizers Program Name Affiliation Field Development, Assessment and Utilization of Complex Computer M.J. Bayarri (Chair) U of Valencia Statistics Models Jim Berger SAMSI Statistics Derek Bingham Simon Fraser U Statistics 2006-07 SAMSI Program David Higdon Los Alamos Nat Lab Statistics Scott Mitchell Sandia Nat Lab Bruce Pitman SUNY-Buffalo Mathematics Peter Reichert EAWAG Thomas Santner Ohio State U Statistics Mary Wheeler U of Texas-Austin Mathematics Darren Wilkinson U of Newcastle Mathematics Carl Bergstrom U of Washington Biology High Dimensional Inference and Myles Allen Oxford U Atmospheric Physics Random Matrices Estelle Basor Caltech Mathematics Peter Bickel UC Berkeley Statistics 2006-07 SAMSI Program Persi Diaconis Stanford U Statistics David Donoho Stanford U Statistics Jianqing Fan Princeton U Oper Res and Finan Eng Iain Johnstone (Chair) Stanford U Statistics Chris Jones UNC and SAMSI Mathematics Helene Massam York U Math and Stat Ken McLaughlin U of Arizona Mathematics Doug Nychka NCAR IMAGe Neil O'Connell U of Warwick Mathematics Ben Santner Lawrence Livermore Jack Silverstein NCSU Mathematics G.W. Stewart U of Maryland Computer Science Craig Tracy U of California-Davis Mathematics Ofer Zeitouni U of Minnesota Applied Mathematics Environmental Sensor Networks Jim Berger SAMSI Statistics Zoe Cardon U of Connecticut Biology Jim Clark Duke U Biology 2007-08 SAMSI Program Jorge Cortes UCSD Engineering Mathematics
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Page 13 and 14: c) RANDOM MEDIA Much of the work of
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Page 21 and 22: 3. Education The impact of SAMSI co
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Page 37 and 38: Yang Yu Zhang Zhong Zhu Jun Bin Yi
Page 39 and 40: Mattingly McKinley Minion Mitran Ng
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Page 43 and 44: Ren Resnick Rios Cuirong Sidney Jes
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Page 47 and 48: B. Postdoctoral Fellows This sectio
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Page 61 and 62: 2. Discovering Game Theoretic Conce
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Communication: --a consistent, time
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C. Graduate Student Participation 1
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Elijah Gaioni (University of Connec
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Xiaoyan’s thesis work is on devel
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Jason Wilson (Duke) is involved in
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Ilka A. Reis (National Institute fo
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4. Challenges in Dynamic Treatment
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4.5 Program Activities The program
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which held morning and afternoon se
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• B. Carlin (Biostatistics, Unive
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Also following from the program, se
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4.11 Summary of Exciting Research a
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interested students and faculty, an
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6. Education and Outreach Program T
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Cherokee Investment Partners, Const
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G. Publications and Technical Repor
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• Ma, C. “Construction of Non-G
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• Bayarri, M.J., J. Berger, F. Li
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• Vernieres, G., Gremaud, P., Olu
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• Krishnapur, M., Zeitouni, O., R
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• Hou, S., K. Huang, K. Solna, an
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• Das, S., “Analyzing Fatal Dri
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H. Diversity Efforts SAMSI puts con
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(University of Utah) and Natallia K
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2007-08 Random Media Opening Worksh
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2. Affiliate Involvement 2.1 Backgr
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J. Advisory Committees Committee Na
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Institute directors agree to inform
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analysis of DNA and protein sequenc
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University), Jeremy Gunawarden (Har
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Many problems and existing simulati
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Carolina), Gareth Peters (New South
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actually replace individual analyse
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effect parameter of interest prior
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with structures that are not tempor
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about confidence in results. Furthe
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2. Stochastic Dynamics 2.1 Overview
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Michael Reed (Mathematics, Duke), G
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These two approaches, through the u
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• Li Lexin (North Carolina State
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At NCAR, Boulder, Colorado and orga
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SAMSI working groups. Participation
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certain distances, be used to captu
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subject to the l 1 constraint. Zou
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3. Breiman, L. (1996): Heuristics o
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enabled high virtual attendance by
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(b) Estimation of large random matr
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We have already discussed problems
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Appendix C. Workshop Participant Li
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Sanso Bruno Male University of Cali
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Compmod New Methods and Case Studie
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El Karoui Nourredine Male UC Berkel
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Education and Outreach Program SAMS
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Sutton Karyn Female NCSU Mathematic
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Lin Rongheng Male U Mass Biostatist
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Geometry and Statistics of Shape Sp
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Heo Giseon Female Hirani Anil Male
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Pennec Xavier Male Pike Brian Male
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Yasamin Saeid Male Yezzi Anthony Ma
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Daum Keith Male Idaho National Labo
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Langstaff John Male Laurey Terri Fe
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Sedransk Nell Female NISS Statistic
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Risk PPP Workshop Workshop Particip
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Rezaei Mahmoud Male Clemson Mathema
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Lysenko Natalia Female ETH Zurich S
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Biondini Gino Male State U New York
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Khatri Shilpa Female Courant Instit
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Spiller Elaine Female SAMSI Mathema
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Interface Workshop Workshop Partici
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Cheney Margaret Female Rensselaer P
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Agarwal Ankit Male U Kansas Enginee
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Lahiri Soumendra Male Texas A & M U
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Last Name SAMSI/CRSC Industrial Mat
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Reale- Levis Jim Male NCSU Engineer
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Gray William Male U. North Carolina
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Serban Nicoleta Female Georgia Inst
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Brotherson Temitope Female NJ Scien
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Frink Kaiem Male Elizabeth City Sta
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Jones Dana Female Bennett College f
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Munoz Breda Female RTI Internationa
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Smith Ralph Male NCSU Mathematics F
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Undergraduate Two-Day Workshop Part
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Schmidt Courtney Female Georgetown
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Schaeffer Amanda Female U Arizona M
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Presentation Chris Snyder, NCAR/MMM
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Chair of Afternoon Session Tom Sant
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1:00-2:15 Lunch Chair of Afternoon
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“Calibration of a Numerical Model
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model. The output is functional dat
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santner.1@osu.edu “Optimization o
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greatly from the active support of
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“Blind Kriging: a New Method for
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10:00-10:30 Break Characterizing th
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— hist_pie.m — hist_pie_exercis
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9:00 Presentations and Discussion
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11:25-11:55 From Population to Indi
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4:00 - 5:30 Shapes in Medical Imagi
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4:15 - 4:45 Discussion Panel Wednes
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dcremers@cs.uni-bonn.de “Shape In
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We will construct epsilon entropy e
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Department of Statistics flb@stat.w
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University of California Los Angele
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2:45 - 3:15 Break N. D. Shyamal Kum
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2:15 - 4:00 Working Group Formation
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and public health questions; little
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Howard Kunreuther University of Pen
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series. We propose a specific class
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Interface Tracking in Connection to
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Purdue University Center for Comput
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of the solution. Here we reveal a s
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of the grand challenges of science.
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numerical approach. Several example
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Biofilms are complicated, living co
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Knut Solna University of California
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This poster presents an analysis of
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X. Program on Risk Analysis, Extrem
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SPEAKER ABSTRACTS Chair: David Bank
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Thoughts on the Use of Decision Ana
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Bias Correction in Pharmaceutical R
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In the talk we will discuss some mo
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Stephen Sain, National Center for A
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Concha Gomez, University of Wiscons
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Iris Mack, Phat Math, Inc. and Flor
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8:15 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast a
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coordinate grids on the surface. To
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University of California, Irvine De
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overall a good agreement between im
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9:00-9:05 Alan Karr, National Insti
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3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break Soumen Lah
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“Experiences in Developing an Eco
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Jennifer Hoeting Colorado State Uni
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kogle@uwyo.edu “Data-Model Integr
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“Compression and Analysis of Gold
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"A Cost-Efficient Approach to Wirel
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The main goal of a data collection
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Radisso
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“Robust Prediction Error Criterio
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one of the main sources of uncertai
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other. A core problem is how to inf
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"The Asymptotic Structure of Nearly
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SAMSI madar@post.tau.ac. “Bayesia
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11:30 - 12:00 Discussion Session 12
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garnier@math.jussieu.fr “Wave Pro
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has lagged. While it is quite clear
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Appendix E - Workshop Evaluations E
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E.2 Evaluation of Scientific Conten
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E.3 Evaluation of Staff Percent of
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E.5 Evaluation of Lodging Evaluatio
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