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日至27日在芝加哥大学举行。会议将包括三场，每场两场演讲，另外两场研究生演讲，以及一场晚间海报展示。已经接受邀请的演讲者有陈雨果、舒娃·古普塔、克里斯·汉斯、孙达兹·凯尔斯和苏珊·墨菲。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费和住宿费。我们希望中西部统计研究研讨会成为一年一度的活动，以传播该地区最好的研究成果，并支持社区的智力交流。中西部拥有大量强大的统计部门。为了鼓励这些部门与该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，也于2009年3月在芝加哥举行了第二次会议。调查员与组委会一道，力求在这些会议取得成功后于2010年3月举行第三次会议。一天半的会议包括关于理论和应用统计学的一系列主题的演讲，以及面向研究生和其他新研究人员的海报会议。会议的地区性将允许许多研究生拼车参加会议，从而允许许多学生以较低的费用参加会议。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.