Travel support for the IMS-ISBA international conference

IMS-ISBA 国际会议的差旅支持

• 批准号: 0419627
• 负责人: Montserrat Fuentes
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: North Carolina 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: 2004-04-15 至 2005-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0419627&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; support; IMS; ISBA; international

The principal investigator requested support for the Second international Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis), to be held in Bormio, Italy on Wednesday, January 12 to Friday, January 14, 2005. A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and related methods and applications in the 15 years since the publication of Gelfand and Smith (1990, JASA), the paper that introduced these methods to mainstream statisticians. The requested funding is to support the travel expenses of junior statistical investigators from US institutions, i.e., persons pursuing a PhD or DrPH in statistics or a closely related field, or who have received such a degree within the five years preceding the conference. Such investigators are often doing research that is among the most novel, interesting, and important for international dissemination, yet lack the travel funds necessary to attend such a conference, since they have not yet established a publication track record sufficient to attract external travel and other funding for their work.The benefit of and need for attendance at such meetings by junior statistical researchers is particularly great, since they contribute mightily to their professional development and help ``level the playing field'' with more established senior investigators. The specific anticipated benefits from the conference are: to provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss an area in some depth, by allowing ample time for presentations on a specific subject; to motivate young researchers to conduct research in the conference's focus areas that provide ample opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration; to encourage young researchers and students to present their work, interact with senior colleagues, and make contact with their peers in a friendly, small meeting environment; to include a large portion of researchers and students from underrepresented groups among participants, and provide the opportunity for one-on-one discussions with colleagues from other institutions; to disseminate materials from the meeting as widely as possible, by posting the presentations on the ISBA web site at www.bayesian.org.

首席调查员请求支助将于2005年1月12日星期三至1月14日星期五在意大利博尔米奥举行的数学统计研究所和国际贝叶斯分析学会第二次国际联席会议。会议的一个中心主题将是马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗(MCMC)以及自Gelfand and Smith(1990，JASA)发表以来15年来的相关方法和应用，这篇论文将这些方法介绍给了主流统计学家。申请的经费用于资助美国机构初级统计调查人员的旅费，即攻读统计学或相关领域的博士或博士学位的人员，或在会议前五年内获得此类学位的人员。这类调查人员所做的研究往往是最新颖、最有趣、最重要的国际传播研究之一，但缺乏参加此类会议所需的旅行资金，因为他们尚未建立足以吸引外部旅行和其他工作资金的出版记录。初级统计研究人员参加这类会议的好处和需求尤其大，因为他们对他们的专业发展作出了巨大贡献，并有助于与更有地位的高级调查人员“公平竞争”。会议的具体预期好处是：为研究人员提供一个深入讨论某一领域的机会，让他们有充分的时间就某一具体主题进行陈述；鼓励青年研究人员在会议的重点领域开展研究，为跨学科合作提供充分的机会；鼓励年轻的研究人员和学生在友好的小型会议环境中介绍他们的工作，与资深同事互动，并与他们的同行进行接触；让大部分研究人员和来自代表性不足群体的学生成为与会者，并提供与其他机构的同事进行一对一讨论的机会；通过在ISBA网站www.bayesian.org上张贴专题介绍，尽可能广泛地传播会议材料。