Shuguang Song, SDNS Publication Officer

The second Conference on Data Analysis (CoDA 2014) was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 5–7, bringing together statisticians and other data-focused researchers from the Department of Energy national laboratories and their collaborators from academia and industry.

As it did for the 2012 CoDA, the Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security (SDNS) provided funding to support a student poster competition. Amanda Ziemann from the Rochester Institute of Technology won first place ($400) with her poster, “Using Graph Theory Models and Manifold Learning to Analyze Cluttered Hyperspectral Scenes.” Brittany Spencer from Brigham Young University won second place ($100) with her poster, “A Model for the Classification of Supernovae.” Finally, Brian Zaharatos from the Colorado School of Mines won honorable mention with his poster, “On the Identifiability of the Single Diode Model.”