CURRENT MAJOR THEMES Responsible and Effective Use of Computational Models - EPA’s Use of Models in Regulatory Decision Making (partial BMSA role) - Linking Models and Simulations for Defense Transformation - Statistical Evaluation of Complex Computer Models - Related NRC Reports - White paper on validation Creating Knowledge from Massive Amounts of Data - Statistical Analysis of Massive Data Streams - Statistical Issues in Data Acquisition -The Mathematical Sciences’ Role in Homeland Security - Analytical Challenges in Data Overload (under development) - Visualization of Uncertain Information - Massive Data Sets - Statistics of Networks New Directions for the Mathematical Sciences -Basic Research in Support of Air Force IS&Ts -Mathematical Sciences Research for DOE’s Computational Biology - Three Topics on the Interface of the Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science - Dynamical Modeling of Complex Biomedical Systems - Theoretical and Computational Chemistry - Medical Imaging - Renewing U.S. Mathematics: Critical Resource For The Future (the “David Report”) Risk Analysis - Enterprise Risk Management - Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector - White Paper on Statistical Quality Control

NEWS AND EVENTS Sept. 6-7, 2008: NRC Study to Evaluate the NSF’s Vertically Integrated Grants for Research and Education (VIGRE) Program, in Chicago, IL October 31 - November 1, 2008: BMSA semi-annual meeting in Washington, D.C. . December 3, 2008: Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics meeting in Washington, D.C. .