3rd Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium

第三届中西部统计研究座谈会将于2010年3月26日和27日在芝加哥大学举行。 会议将包括三个会议，每个会议两个讲座，另外两个会议的研究生讲座，和一个晚上的海报会议。 已经接受邀请的演讲者有陈玉国、Shuva Gupta、Chris Hans、Sunduz Keles和Susan Murphy。 NSF的资金将用于支付演讲者、研究生和其他新研究人员的旅行和住宿费用。 我们的目的是使中西部统计研究讨论会成为一项年度活动，以传播该地区正在进行的最佳研究，并支持社区的知识交流。中西部拥有大量强大的统计部门。 为了鼓励这些部门与本区域更广泛的统计研究界之间的互动，其中一些部门于2008年3月在芝加哥大学主办了第一次统计研究座谈会。 随后于2009年3月在芝加哥举行了第二次会议。 调查员与组织委员会一道，力求在这些会议取得成功之后，于2010年3月举行第三次会议。 为期一天半的会议包括理论和应用统计方面的广泛主题的讲座，以及研究生和其他新研究人员的海报会议。 会议的区域性质将允许许多研究生拼车参加会议，从而使许多学生以适度的费用参加会议。 此外，我们将鼓励研究生之间的直接互动，让他们开始在同龄人之间建立个人和智力关系，这将在他们的职业生涯中滋养他们。

The Third Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium will be held at the University of Chicago March 26 and 27, 2010. The conference will consist of three sessions of two talks each, an additional two sessions of talks by graduate students, and an evening poster session. Speakers who have already accepted invitations are Yuguo Chen, Shuva Gupta, Chris Hans, Sunduz Keles, and Susan Murphy. Funds from NSF will be used to defray the travel and lodging costs of speakers and of graduate students and other new researchers. It is our intention that the Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium becomes an annual event serving to disseminate the best research being done in the region and to support intellectual exchanges in the community.The Midwest possesses a large number of strong statistics departments. To encourage interactions between these departments and the broader statistical research community in the region, a number of these departments sponsored the First Statistics Research Colloquium, held at the University of Chicago in March 2008. This was followed by a second meeting, also held in Chicago, in March 2009. The investigator, together with the organizing committee, seeks to follow up the success of these meetings with a third meeting in March, 2010. The day and a half meeting includes talks on a wide array of topics in theoretical and applied statistics and a poster session for graduate students and other new researchers. The regional nature of the meeting will allow many graduate students to carpool to the meeting, thus allowing many students to attend at modest cost. In addition, we will be encouraging direct interactions among the graduate students to get them started building the personal and intellectual relationships among their peers that will nourish them throughout their careers.