Conference Proposal: The Third Erich L. Lehmann Symposium -- Statistical Optimality

第三届埃里希·莱曼研讨会为期四天的会议是一系列研讨会的第三届。研讨会的目标是审查最优化在现代统计学中可以发挥或应该发挥的作用。由于高通量数据收集技术的出现和分析这类数据的计算能力的并行发展，经常发生统计理论让位于原始计算能力的情况。尽管大多数新的令人振奋的统计方法提供了在许多重要科学问题上取得进展的工具，但现在显然需要推广和系统化这方面的知识。第三次研讨会将于5月16日至19日在莱斯大学举行，一组专家将齐聚一堂，在现代统计方法的背景下讨论最优化研究的前沿想法。人们认为，尽管在数据可视化和数据挖掘以及知识发现等领域取得了很大进展，但制定允许对方法进行客观比较的最佳范例的主题已经成熟。这一新的范式虽然仍有待定义，但对于推动这些重要学科的研究前沿是必要的。会议将展示领先研究人员在有利于开发新人力资源的环境中的新发展。这项提议将为参加会议的12名年轻研究人员和8名博士生提供机票和每日费用支持。将积极招募和鼓励女性和少数族裔青年调查人员和博士生申请。辉瑞公司、莱斯大学、德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心和MD安德森癌症中心已经为会议的其他方面提供了资金。将发表和邀请经评审的论文，全体会议将以数字方式记录，并通过莱斯大学的在线档案馆提供给科学界。研讨会的最新网页可在http://www.stat.rice.edu/~jrojo/3rd-Lehmann.上找到。

The Third Erich L. Lehmann SymposiumThe four-day conference is the third of a series of symposia. The goal of the symposia is to examine the role that optimality can play, or should play, in modern statistics. Due to the advent of high throughput data collection technology and the parallel development of computing power to analyze such data, it often happens that statistical theory gives way to raw computing power. Although most of the new exciting statistical methodologies have provided tools to make headway in many important scientific problems, a need to generalize and systematize this knowledge is now quite evident. The Third Symposium will take place at Rice University during May 16th - 19th and will bring together a group of experts to discuss cutting-edge research optimality ideas in the context of modern statistical methodologies. It is believed that, although much progress has taken place in areas such as data visualization and data mining and knowledge discovery among others, the subjects are ripe for the development of an optimality paradigm that allows for objective comparisons of methodologies. This new paradigm, although still to be defined, is necessary to push the research frontiers in these important disciplines. The conference will showcase new developments by leading researchers in an environment conducive to the development of new human resources.This proposal will fund airfare and per diem expenses support for twelve young investigators and eight Ph.D. students to attend the conference. Women and minority young investigators and Ph.D. students will be actively recruited and encouraged to apply. Pfizer, Rice University, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and MD Anderson Cancer Center have made contributions to fund other aspects of the conference. Refereed papers will be published and invited and plenary sessions will be digitally recorded and made available to the scientific community through Rice University's online archives. An evolving webpage for the Symposium may be found at http://www.stat.rice.edu/~jrojo/3rd-Lehmann.