International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics

研究人员寻求通过将来自不同学科的初级和高级研究人员聚集在一起来促进跨学科的统计和组合研究。研究人员聘请了许多国际知名的高级研究人员，就生物学、组合论、计算机科学、计量经济学、教育研究方法论、环境科学、流行病学、地理学、信息系统、心理学和公共卫生教育等不同领域的不同主题进行全体会议和/或组织学术会议。该项目寻求资金，以支持处于职业生涯早期的年轻研究人员，特别是来自传统上在数学科学中代表性不足的群体，如妇女和少数民族。我们认为，这次会议提供的初级和成熟研究人员之间的个人互动机会对培养年轻研究人员至关重要。调查人员寻求资金，以促进涉及统计技术的跨学科研究，并促进大约30名年轻研究人员(高级研究生和最近获得博士学位的人)参加这次会议，特别是来自传统上在数学科学中代表性较低的群体，如妇女和少数民族，以便他们能够成为现有或新创建的研究网络的一部分。这次会议在地方层面的另一个重要方面是，它的目标是在北卡罗来纳州建立一个研究人员网络，包括来自北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校、杜克大学、北卡罗来纳州立大学和维克森林大学等主要研究中心的研究人员，以及来自北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒分校和北卡罗来纳农工大学等鲜为人知的校园的研究人员。

The investigators seek to promote interdisciplinary statistical and combinatorial research by bringing together in this conference both junior and senior researchers from different disciplines. The investigators have enlisted many senior researchers of international repute to give plenary talks and/or to organize academic sessions on various topics representing such diverse fields as biology, combinatorial theory, computer science, econometrics, educational research methodology, environmental science, epidemiology, geography, information systems, psychology, and public health education. The project seeks funding to support young researchers who are at an early stage in their careers, particularly from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in mathematical sciences, such as women and minorities. The opportunity for personal interaction among beginning and established researchers that this conference provides is, we believe, essential for the grooming of young researchers.The investigators seek funding to promote interdisciplinary research involving statistical techniques, and to facilitate participation in this conference of approximately 30 young researchers (advanced graduate students and recent PhD recipients), particularly from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in mathematical sciences, such as women and minorities, so that they can become part of existing or newly created research networks. Another vital aspect of this conference at the local level is that it aims to create a network of researchers in North Carolina involving those from major research centers such as UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, N. C. State University and Wake Forest University, and those from somewhat lesser known campuses such as The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and The North Carolina A&T University.