Participant Support for Workshop on Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Network Data in in Dublin, Ireland.

这笔奖金将用于资助参加为期三天的网络数据分析统计方法研讨会的美国青年的旅费和费用，该研讨会将于2009年6月15日至17日在爱尔兰都柏林举行。许多现代数据分析问题涉及来自社会、生物和其他网络的大数据集。在这些情况下，传统的建模假设是不合适的；对这些数据的分析必须考虑到被测量实体之间的关系结构。为了保持这种观点，《应用统计年鉴》（AOAS）计划在2009年末或2010年初推出一个专门的章节，刊登有关网络数据建模的论文。本次研讨会将特别关注模型设计和模型拟合和推理的计算问题。研讨会将利用已经提交给美国国家科学院的高质量论文，汇集来自不同社区的统计网络建模研究人员，并鼓励广泛学科的年轻研究人员和研究生提交论文。研讨会的目标是促进合作和知识交流，从而产生新颖的建模方法，多样化的应用，以及网络研究及其应用的新研究方向。

This award will support travel and expenses for young U.S. participants in a three-day Workshop on Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Network Data in Practice, to be held on June 15-17, 2009 in Dublin, Ireland. Many modern data analysis problems involve large data sets from social, biological and other networks. In these settings, traditional modeling assumptions are inappropriate; the analysis of these data must take into account the structure of relationships between the entities being measured. In keeping with this perspective, the Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS) has been planning a special section to appear in late 2009 or early 2010 with papers on the modeling of network data. This workshop will pay special attention to model design and computational issues of model fitting and inference. The workshop will take advantage of the high quality papers that have already been submitted to AOAS to bringing together statistical network modeling researchers from different communities, and encourage the submission of papers by young researchers and graduate students in a broad spectrum of disciplines. The workshop goal is to foster collaborations and intellectual exchange resulting in novel modeling approaches, diverse applications, and new research directions for network research and its application.