IX Latin American Conference on Probability and Mathematical Statistics

第九届拉丁美洲概率与数理统计会议

• 批准号: 0405367
• 负责人: Alicia Carriquiry
• 金额: $ 1.65万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-01 至 2004-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0405367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IX; Latin; American; Conference; Probability

ABSTRACT: The IX Latin American Conference on Probability and Mathematical Statistics is held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from March 23 to March 27, 2004. Conference organizers structure activities to provide as much opportunity as possible for discussions among conference participants, and to create an environment that is welcoming of young researchers and graduate students who wish to present their work. Several introductory short courses on topics ranging from stochastic calculus with financial applications, to graphical models, and model selection in a Bayesian framework, are taught. In addition, special discussion sessions on course topics are organized, to facilitate the interaction between young researchers and their more senior colleagues. In the past twelve years, collaboration between Latin American and US mathematical scientists has increased many-fold. One important consequence has been the growth of well-trained students from Latin American institutions who choose to enroll in graduate programs in American universities and who then develop close and enduring ties to the US academic community. In part, this increased interaction is due to the series of Latin American conferences in probability and statistics, that are generally held every two years in a Latin American country, and that typically include a significant contingent of US participants. The conferences have grown both in size and importance over time, and have contributed to the creation of a community of applied probabilists and statisticians who are eager to work in interdisciplinary teams to solve complex problems of importance to society. The National Science Foundation, through its funding of travel awards for US scientists and for scientists from selected Latin American countries excluding Cuba , has been an important sponsor of these workshops. The funding requested from NSF for the IX Latin American conference will be used to partially cover travel expenses of 10 US participants and of six Latin American conference participants from countries other than Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela.

摘要：第九届拉丁美洲概率与数理统计会议于2004年3月23日至27日在乌拉圭埃斯特角举行。会议组织者安排活动，为与会者之间的讨论提供尽可能多的机会，并创造一个欢迎希望介绍其工作的年轻研究人员和研究生的环境。课程内容包括随机微积分与金融应用、图形模型、贝叶斯框架中的模型选择等几门入门课程。此外，还组织了关于课程主题的特别讨论会，以促进青年研究人员与他们的资深同事之间的互动。在过去的12年里，拉美和美国数学科学家之间的合作增加了许多倍。一个重要的结果是，来自拉美机构的训练有素的学生的增长，他们选择在美国大学注册研究生课程，然后与美国学术界建立密切而持久的联系。在一定程度上，这种互动的增加是由于拉美概率和统计方面的一系列会议，这些会议通常每两年在拉美国家举行一次，通常包括大量美国与会者。随着时间的推移，这些会议的规模和重要性都在增长，并为创建一个由应用概率学家和统计学家组成的社区做出了贡献，他们渴望在跨学科团队中工作，以解决对社会具有重要意义的复杂问题。国家科学基金会通过资助美国科学家和除古巴以外的特定拉丁美洲国家的科学家的旅行奖励，一直是这些讲习班的重要赞助商。NSF为第九届拉丁美洲会议申请的资金将用于支付10名美国与会者和6名来自阿根廷、巴西、智利、古巴、墨西哥和委内瑞拉以外国家的拉丁美洲与会者的部分旅费。