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Hello,Hope everyone had a pleasant summer. This is just a short note to let members know what is being planned. The officers met recently and the following are some of the goals and ideas for the year. We are attempting to co-sponsor events with the schools, institutions and other groups in our area. From last year, an example of this type of event was Dr. Donald Rubin's lecture at CSU. This event was essentially organized by the PRogram for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Ecology, and Statistics (PRIMES) program. While dealingwith censored data, Dr. Rubin presented enough background material sothat the material was understandable and enjoyable to all. Obviously,without chapter involvement anyone would have still been welcome toattend. We hope that that the schools and partnering groups receive abenefit from the additional focus on their event. As always, we face the problem of having members with amazingly diverse and specialized interests. We hope to have events that cover a wide range of topics and member will attend even if it doesn't directly apply to their specific area of statistics. If you have any ideas on collaborations that might work along these lines, please let us know. ** We are working on having an invited speaker this fall. Details are will follow. ** Education outreach activities are continuing. If you know of any high school teachers who are willing to invite us into their classrooms to give a lesson on design of experiments illustrated through by playing with helicopters, please have them contact me. In the spring we will also be looking for volunteers to help judge at the state science fair. ** JSM (2007 and 2008) - The next two JSM meetings are being held in Salt Lake City and Denver. If you've never been to a one, this is an excellent opportunity since both are within driving distance. Particularly we are considering ways in which we can encourage students to attend both. This might be through coordinating rides, hotel room sharing, a small travel stipend, etc.
** Officers Again, currently our officers are: President - Matt Pocernich - NCAR - pocernic@ucar.edu Secretary - Deborah Hall Treasurer - Sharar Boneh - Metro State College Denver Chapter Representative - Nels Gravested - Metro State College Denver President Elect - Vacant Newsletter Editor - Vacant** Spring Meeting The tentative date for the spring meeting is Friday April 20st, 2007. Since you may not have your 2007 calendars yet, this information will probably be repeated. ** Please contact us with any questions or comments. -- Matt Pocernich National Center for Atmospheric Research Research Applications Laboratory _______________________________________________ Cowystats mailing list Cowystats@ucar.edu http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cowystats |
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