<font size="2"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">### Spring meeting reminder + logistics</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">THIS FRIDAY -APRIL 15th, the spring Chapter Meeting will be held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research - Mesa Lab. Directions can be found at <a href="http://www2.ucar.edu/campus/mesa-laboratory">http://www2.ucar.edu/campus/mesa-laboratory</a>. We will be meeting at in the main seminar room. There is no fee or registration required for this event. </span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Lunch Options - We will be having lunch at NCAR's cafeterial. 1. You can bring your own lunch. 2. For $5 you can have lunch in the cafeteria. This is partially subsidized by the chapter. 3. There are some restaurant options near Broadway and Table Mesa. On thing to not is that the cafeteria does not take credit cards.</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">The lunch break is 90 minutes. During this extended lunch period you may choose to attend a 30 minute architectural tour of the Mesa building, take a wake on one of the trails leading from the lab or take a nap.</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Near final Agenda </span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;" align="center"><font size="2"><b><span>Colorado Wyoming ASA Spring
Meeting April 15<sup>th</sup></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>9:00<span> </span>9:30<span> </span>Coffee
and Donut<span> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>9:30<span> </span>10:00<span> </span>Pecha
Kecha, Pocernich, Brown,<span>
</span>Williamson, <span> </span><i>Fun, fun, fun.</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>10:00<span> </span>10:15<span> </span>Lee
Chihoon<span> </span><i>On the return time for a reflected fractional Brownian motion process
on the positive orthant</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>10:15<span> </span>10:30<span> </span>Tamara
Greasby<span> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>10:30<span> </span>10:45<span> </span>Will
Keiber<span> </span><i>Geostatistical model averaging for locally calibrated
probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasting</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>10:45<span> </span>11:15<span> </span>Scot
Leeks ASQ<span> </span><i>Statistics and Lean Six Sigma: A Perfect Combination</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>11:15<span> </span>11:30<span> </span>Local
User Groups DSUG, DRUG and ASQ<span> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>11:30<span> </span>13:00<span> </span>Lunch
and optional Mesa<span> </span>Architecture
tour<span> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>13:00<span> </span>13:15<span> </span>Sarabdeep
Singh<span> </span><i>Analysis of gene duplication data</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>13:15<span> </span>13:30<span> </span>Chris
Bukowski<span> </span><i>Investigating spatial correlation estimation
when nonparametrically smoothing the mean trend</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>13:30<span> </span>13:45<span> </span>Megan
Yoder<span> </span><i>Forecasting Wind Power for a Short Horizon</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>13:45<span> </span>14:00<span> </span>Andreea
Erciulescu<span> </span><i>Autocovariance Structures for Radial
Averages in Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Experiments</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>14:00<span> </span>14:15<span> </span>Wang
Huan<span> </span><i>Penalized splines with shape constraints</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>14:15<span> </span>14:30<span> </span>Break<span> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>14:30<span> </span>14:45<span> </span>Anna
Forssen<span> </span><i>Validation and Use of an Attitude Survey:
Measuring the Impact of a High School Intervention on Students’ Attitudes in IT</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>14:45<span> </span>15:00<span> </span>Tonya
Lauriski-Karriker<span> </span><i>Risk Set Sampling for Case Crossover Designs</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>15:00<span> </span>15:15<span> </span>Andre
Williams<span> </span><i>Stereotype Logit Models for High Dimensional
Data</i></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="2"><span>15:15<span> </span>15:45<span> </span>Chapter
Business<span> </span></span></font></p>
<font size="2"><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">### Winners David Young Award - CSEF </span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Thanks to Calvin Croy, Kelly McConville, Tom Boardman, Craig Weismen, and Bruce Bugbee for attending the Colorado Science and Engineering Fair to select winners for the David Young Award. The winners are.</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"></font><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Senior Division</span></font></p><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">
<font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"> </span><u><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">David Young Award Winner</span></u><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"> ($150)<br></span></font></p><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">
<font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Braedon Horton, Brydie Mitchell, Kelli Buhrdorf. <i>The Game of Life. A Critical Analysis of Three Taxation Methods</i>. Project # 2-02-301.</span></font></p><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">
<font size="2"><u><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Honorable Mentions</span></u><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"> ($25 ITunes Card)</span></font></p><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">
<font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Kathryn McClain. <i>A Study of Audio-Visual Coactivation in Noise</i>. Project # 2-02-003Soyeun Yang. <i>Synthesis and Use of Gold Nanoparticle Therapeutics in Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria</i>. Project # 2-10-006.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"> </span></font></p><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Junior Division</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><u><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">David Young Award Winner</span></u><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"> ($150 Check)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Ethan Coldren. <i>Can You Predict the Weather by Watching Birds?</i> Project # 1-01-002</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"> </span></font></p><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><u><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Honorable Mentions</span></u><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"> ($25 ITunes Card)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Aleesa Muir. <i>Analyzing the Deteriorating Effects of Acid Precipitation on Natural Landscaping.</i> Project # 1-04-004.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);">Joshua Willis. <i>Good Vibrations?</i> Project # 1-11-018 </span></font></p><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal">
<font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13);"> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">### ASA Traveling Course - Markov Simulation </span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">### ASA Traveling Course - Markov Simulation with </span><b style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span>Zachary Skrivanek </span></b><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">October 21, 2011 - University of Denver</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">More details will follow, but the chapter has been selected to host an ASA Traveling course this fall. This will be a one day workshop. </span></font>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2">Simulation has a wide range of applications from military
strategy to engineering queuing models to quantum physics. This course will
cater towards statisticians and will focus on Monte Carlo simulations used to
estimate complex processes or functions. The theory behind pseudo random number
generators will be explained and an overview of modeling and simulation will be
given and illustrated with case studies. Specific topics include importance
sampling, McMC, queing models and clinical trial simulation. Examples will be
given in R, but the course will be general enough so that the student can apply
the methodology using any appropriate software.</font></p>
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</font><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Matthew Pocernich<br>Statistician<br>Neptune and Company, Inc.<br>8550 W 14th Ave.<br>Lakewood, CO 80215<br>
voice: (720) 746-1803 ext. 2#<br>fax: (720) 746-1605<br><a href="http://www.neptuneandco.com/" target="_blank">http://www.neptuneandco.com/</a></span></font><br>
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