NSF/CBMS Conference in the Mathematical Sciences: Statistical Inference from Genetic Data on Pedigrees to be held July 19-23, 1999 in Houghton, Michigan

NSF-CBMS区域会议在数学科学“统计推断从遗传数据的谱系”将功能，作为首席讲师，华盛顿大学的伊丽莎白·汤普森，谁将提供十个主题演讲，暴露与会者的方法使用国家的最先进的统计技术来分析人类遗传数据。汤普森教授的讲座所涵盖的领域将位于统计，概率，遗传学和分子生物学领域的交汇处，该项目的内在跨学科性将使其对统计学家，数学家和定量生物学家特别有吸引力。 汤普森教授是一位著名的研究人员，在统计遗传学方面发表了一系列令人印象深刻的重要著作。 她作为一名讲师广受尊敬，最近在联合统计会议上发表了两次主旨演讲。 她的讲座将构成专着“减数分裂，谱系和人口：人类遗传数据的现代推理方法”的基础，将由数理统计研究所出版。 会议将于1999年7月19日至23日在霍顿的密歇根理工大学举行，与会者来自不同的群体：将有几个领域的资深研究人员和新进入者;妇女、少数民族、研究生和REU本科生;来自非研究密集型学校的人员和希望进入该地区的人员。 与会者将被安置在宿舍或大学公寓，并将特别注意会后的互动和协作。 会议期间还将安排一些有组织的社会活动。 会议的总体目标是促进以上下文方式学习精辟的统计方法，并持续关注至关重要的生物学应用。

The NSF-CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences ``Statistical Inference from Genetic Data on Pedigrees'' will feature, as Principal Lecturer, Elizabeth Thompson of the University of Washington, who will deliver ten keynote lectures that expose attendees to methods for using state-of-the-art statistical techniques to analyze human genetic data. The areas covered by Professor Thompson's lectures will lie at the confluence of the fields of statistics, probability, genetics and molecular biology, and the intrinsic interdisciplinarity of the project will make it particularly attractive to statisticians, mathematicians, and quantitative biologists alike. Professor Thompson is a renowned researcher with an impressive array ofkey publications in statistical genetics. She is widely respected as a lecturer, having recently delivered two keynote addresses at the Joint Statistics Meetings. Her lectures will form the basis of the monograph``Meioses, Pedigrees and Populations: Modern Inference Methods for Human Genetic Data'' that will be published by the Institute for Mathematical Statistics. A diverse group of attendees will attend the conference, which will be held July 19--23 1999 at Michigan Technological University in Houghton: present will be established researchers and new entrants in several fields; women, minorities, graduate students and REU-undergraduates; persons from non research-intensive schools and persons wishing to enter the area. Participants will be housed in dormitory rooms or university apartments, and special attention will be paid to post-conference interaction and collaboration. Several organized social activities will be planned during the conference. The overall objective of the conference is to facilitate the learning of incisive statistical methodology in a contextual fashion, with a continual focus on a vitally important biological application.