VIGRE-Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

爱荷华州州立大学统计系的VIGRE计划旨在通过汇集由本科生，研究生，博士后研究员和教师组成的工作组来使统计科学受益。 该计划的结构将为学生提供机会，在这个过程的早期阶段，将esktop和跨学科的问题解决纳入他们的教育经验。 它将提供博士后研究员的经验和专业实践。 而且，它的目的是增加跨学科的研究机会，教师的水平，无论是在统计和数学的研究领域，跨越数学和应用科学的界限。VIGRE方案的核心由侧重于统计调查和应用领域的工作组组成。 工作组存在于生物信息学，环境和生态统计，工程统计，概率和数理统计，抽样方法和社会科学统计等领域。 每个工作组将进行研究，并为他们的活动的外部资金编写建议，参加VIGRE研讨会，与他人合作，规划本科生暑期研究经验，并在会议上提出研究成果，并通过统计和面向主题的科学期刊的出版物。 在爱荷华州州立大学的许多部门都支持VIGRE概念的统计部门，并从广泛的科学学科的研究人员在工作组活动的参与预计将进一步增加在爱荷华州统计的应用和方法发展的历史实力。

The VIGRE program of the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University is designed to benefit the statistical sciences by bringing together working groups consisting of undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. The structure of the program will provide students with the opportunity to incorporate esearch and interdisciplinary problem solving into their educational experience at an early stage in the process. It will provide postdoctoral fellows experience and professional practice. And, it is designed to increase the level of interdisciplinary research opportunities for faculty, both across areas of research in statistics and mathematics, and across boundaries of the mathematical and applied sciences. The core of the VIGRE program consists of work groups that focus on areas of statistical investigation and application. Work groups exist in the areas of Bioinformatics, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Engineering Statistics, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Sampling Methodology, and Statistics in the Social Sciences. Each work group will conduct research and write proposals for external funding of their activities, participate in the VIGRE workshop, work with others to plan undergraduate summer research experiences, and present research results at meetings and through publication outlets in both statistics and subject-oriented scientific journals. Many departments at Iowa State University have supported the VIGRE concept in the Department of Statistics, and involvement of researchers from a broad range of scientific disciplines in work group activities is expected to further increase the historical strength of applications and methodological development in statistics at Iowa State.