<div dir="ltr">I think this is relevant and may be of interest to a few of us.<div>And we should have at least one representative of the Lab participate in the event.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let Jessie and I know if you'd be interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Artur<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">George Darakos</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:gdarakos@andrew.cmu.edu">gdarakos@andrew.cmu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 9:52 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: 2023 Probability Management Summit Follow-Up<br>To: Zachary Lipton <<a href="mailto:zlipton@andrew.cmu.edu">zlipton@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Artur Dubrawski <<a href="mailto:awd@cs.cmu.edu">awd@cs.cmu.edu</a>>, Barnabas Poczos <<a href="mailto:bapoczos@cs.cmu.edu">bapoczos@cs.cmu.edu</a>>, Roni Rosenfeld <<a href="mailto:roni@cs.cmu.edu">roni@cs.cmu.edu</a>>, Aaditya Ramdas <<a href="mailto:aramdas@andrew.cmu.edu">aramdas@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi Gentlemen,<div>Would you (and your students) be interested in participating in this workshop on Probability Management in May '23? They would like to come to campus for a session on 5/25 where your participation would be requested.</div><div><br></div><div>If you could please let me know by noon this Friday if you might be interested. I'm focusing on SCS faculty, so if you know of any others in SCS who might be interested in this, please let me know. </div><div><br></div><div><i>Note:</i> CBE will be working to identify others around campus (in statistics and in Tepper and Heinz) who may be interested.</div><div>Thank you,</div><div>George<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Schell, Justin (He/Him) (Highmark Health)</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:justin.schell@highmarkhealth.org" target="_blank">justin.schell@highmarkhealth.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 9:53 AM<br>Subject: 2023 Probability Management Summit Follow-Up<br>To: Anita Jesionowski <<a href="mailto:anitaj@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">anitaj@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:gdarakos@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">gdarakos@andrew.cmu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:gdarakos@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">gdarakos@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br>Cc: Smetanka, Courtney L (Highmark Health) <<a href="mailto:Courtney.Smetanka@highmarkhealth.org" target="_blank">Courtney.Smetanka@highmarkhealth.org</a>>, Sam Savage <<a href="mailto:sam@probabilitymanagement.org" target="_blank">sam@probabilitymanagement.org</a>>, Max Henrion <<a href="mailto:henrion@lumina.com" target="_blank">henrion@lumina.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Anita and George,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Thank you for your time yesterday and thank you to Courtney for creating the connection. I am including Sam Savage (Executive Director of Probability Management) and Max Henrion
(CEO of Lumina Decisions & CMU Adjunct) to make sure their feedback and perspectives are included in our conversation.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Here are the follow-up items to our conversation.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">What is the mission & vision of Probability Management?</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">
<a href="http://www.probabilitymanagement.org" target="_blank">www.probabilitymanagement.org</a> <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Probability Management is the developer and promotor of an open-source standard of sharing stochastic information across organizations and business decisions called the SIPMath Standard.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Probability Management’s mission is to help decision makers make decisions in the face of uncertainty through a better understanding of the chance of meeting their objectives or
avoiding risk. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Probability Management’s vision is a world where the brightest minds create power plants of uncertainty that generate probability distributions and accessing those probability distributions
for decision-making is as simple as screwing in a light bulb.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">What is the goal of the annual Probability Management Summit (2023 is May 24<sup>th</sup> & 25<sup>th</sup>)?</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Each year, Probability Management holds an invitation only summit of decision scientists, engineers, and decision makers to come together and collaborate on ways to apply the SIPMath
Standard to decision-making and methods to change organizational culture to adopt probabilistic methods for making decisions. The summit looks to also connect to institutions of higher education where students and faculty are exploring problems that could
benefit from using the SIPMath Standard to generate probability distributions, enhance decision-making, or optimize outcomes.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">What is our ask of CMU?</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Identify faculty, researchers, and partners at CMU who would find the SIPMath standard relevant and would be interested in
learning more about the standard and its application.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Facilitate some introductions in advance of the summit to some of the relevant faculty & researchers to introduce them to
the standard with the goal of applying it right away in their work.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Publicize a 1-day educational program at CMU to learn about the SIPMath standard and its applications (hopefully with some
examples from the advance introduction group)<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Provide space for the program<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">What are some areas who may be interest?</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">The SIPMath standard has found consistent applications in the energy industry and military readiness applications. However, Highmark Health and Kaiser Permanente have begun using
it in healthcare applications as well. Additionally, there are applications in government policy. Basically, any place where people are trying to determine outcomes in uncertain conditions would find the standard useful.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Doug Matty would be an excellent person to touch base with in the advance group. I looked at his LinkedIn profile, and he has connections to some of the volunteers and sponsors
at Probability Management, and he is a graduate of the OR program at the Naval Postgraduate School (featured at the 2022 summit).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Size Range</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">We are expecting 30-40 people to attend the summit from around the country for the 2 days. It is reasonable to assume that the CMU day would add another 30-40 CMU representatives.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif">Thank you again for your time and help. Sam or Max if you have any thoughts (especially on some advance group contacts at CMU), please share them. Anita and George, please let
me know what other questions or thoughts you have.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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