Workshop: Pathways to the Future Workshop 2004

1988年8月，在数理统计研究所年度会议及其概率及其应用专题讨论会召开之前，举行了一个约有20名女研究人员参加的小型讲习班。第一期讲习班取得了巨大成功，受到鼓舞，此后几年在美国统计协会、国际生物统计学会各区域和数学统计研究所的主要联合年会之前举办了一次讲习班，但在1994年与数学统计研究所世界大会和国际统计研究所伯努利分会联合举办了一次讲习班，并于2000年与在伯克利举行的国际生物统计会议联合举办了一次讲习班。研讨会取得了巨大的成功，每一次都会获得赞扬的感谢。年轻研究人员仍然需要这样的途径。因此，这项提议是在2004年举办一次类似的讲习班，对象是尚未有机会参加的刚毕业的年轻研究人员。该讲习班旨在帮助在过去五年中获得博士学位的概率和统计学领域的年轻女性研究人员。一名高级研究员将就什么、在哪里以及如何确保成功和多产的研究生涯发表重要演讲。另一位大四学生将就出版发表演讲--在哪里发表，发表什么，以及如何撰写研究成果。第三位高级研究员将介绍赠款机会以及如何利用这些机会。研讨会参与者将简要介绍他们的研究兴趣和研究环境。随着参与者学会促进他们自己的研究并减少他们的职业孤立，彼此以及几位知名研究人员见面和互动的机会将是非常宝贵的。讲习班的结果是，与会者应该在自己的研究事业中取得更大的成功，因此，例如，在晋升和终身教职过程中幸存下来，使这些妇女成为各级学生(本科生和研究生)在自己的培训方案中的榜样。

ABSTRACT In August 1988 a small Workshop of approximately twenty women researchers was held immediately prior to the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and its Special Symposium on Probability and its Applications. Encouraged by the enormous success of this first Workshop, one has been run in subsequent years prior to the major joint annual meeting of American Statistical Association, regions of the International Biometric Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, except that in 1994 it ran in conjunction with the World Congress of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Section of the International Statistical Institute and in 2000 it ran in conjunction with the International Biometric Conference in Berkeley. The Workshops have been a huge success with laudatory thanks proferred each time. The need for such avenues for young researchers is still present. Therefore, this proposal is for a similar Workshop to be held in 2004 to be targeted at newly graduating young researchers who have not as yet had the opportunity to participate. The Workshop is proposed to assist young women researchers in probability and statistics who have received their doctorates in the last five years. A senior researcher will give a major presentation on what where and how to ensure a successful and productive research career. Another senior will give a presentation on publishing - where and what to publish and how to write up research results. A third senior researcher will give a presentation on grant opportunities and how to pursue them. Workshop participants would give a brief presentation of their research interests and research environment. The opportunity to meet and interact with each other as well as a few established researchers will be invaluable as the participants learn to promote their own research and to decrease their professional isolation. As a result of the Workshop, attendees should be more successful in their own research careers, and thus, for example, survive the promotion and tenure process so that these women become role models for the students at all levels (undergraduate and graduate) in their own training programs.