SM: Student Travel Grant for SIAM Data Mining Conference 2008

研究人员将使用这笔赠款的资金来支持学生参加2008年SIAM数据挖掘(SDM 2008)数据挖掘会议。本次会议将于2008年4月24日至4月26日在美国亚特兰大举行(http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm08/).Jointly由计算机科学家和统计学家组织，本次技术会议是展示数据挖掘领域新研究成果的首选场所，该领域的研究人员和从业者广泛参加。获奖者的选择将根据他们的研究进展的质量以及参加这次会议的潜力来进行。将特别重视研究生，特别是妇女和代表不足的少数族裔学生，因为参加会议是他们教育经历的重要组成部分，而且他们的旅费往往有限。参加诸如SDM这样的会议对研究生的发展至关重要。参与者有机会介绍他们的工作，参加小组和主题会议，并与数百名其他在该领域进行前沿研究的人进行互动。这些经历在许多方面对学生有帮助。首先，它使他们能够接触到各自领域的广泛尖端思想，而不是他们可能在本国机构和研究小组中接触到的东西。其次，它为他们提供了与知名研究人员见面的机会，这可能会导致长期的互动和指导关系。第三，在他们发表论文的情况下，它提供了一个机会，让广大受众及早反馈他们的论文研究和演讲技巧。所有这些好处都是无价的，可以确保发展卓越的研究，从而在创新研究领域取得丰硕的成果。鉴于尖端创新对美国在世界上的经济卓越地位至关重要，而受过创新培训的未来劳动力对此至关重要，拟议中的项目与国家议程非常一致。

The investigator will use the funds from this grant to support the travel of students to the 2008 SIAM Data Mining (SDM 2008) Conference on Data Mining. This conference will be held in Atlanta, USA from April 24th to April 26th, 2008 (http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm08/).Jointly organized by computer scientists and statisticians, this technical conference is a premiere venue for presenting new research results in the area of data mining, and is widely attended by researchers and practitioners in the field. Selection of award recipients will be done on the basis of quality of their research progress, as well as the potential to benefit from attending this meeting. Special emphasis will be given to graduate students, and in particular women and under-represented minority students, since attending conferences is an important part of their educational experience, and they often have limited travel funds.Attending conferences such as SDM is of paramount importance for the development of graduate students. Participants have the opportunity to present their work, attend panel and keynote sessions, and interact with hundreds of others performing leading-edge research in the field.Such experiences help students in a number of ways ways. First, it enables them to get exposure to a wide range of cutting edge ideas in their field, beyond what they are likely to be exposed to in their home institutions and research groups. Second, it provides them an opportunity to meet established researchers, which can potentially lead to long term interactions and mentoring relationships. Third, in case they are presenting a paper, it provides an opportunity for early feedback on their thesis research and presentation skills from a broad audience. All of these benefits are invaluable in ensuring the development of research excellence, leading to a productive career in innovative research. Given that cutting edge innovation is critical to the United States' economic preeminence in the world, and a future workforce trained to be innovative is critical for it, the proposed project is well aligned with the national agenda.