Travel Support for the 4th International Joint IMS-ISBA Conference

第四届 IMS-ISBA 国际联合会议的差旅支持

• 批准号: 1008884
• 负责人: Bradley Carlin
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-15 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1008884&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Support; 4th; International; Joint

This grant provides support for the Fourth International Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis), to be held on Wednesday, January 5 to Friday, January 7, 2011. A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and related methods and applications. The lion's share of the funding will be used to support the travel expenses of junior biostatistical investigators, i.e., persons pursuing a PhD or DrPH in statistics, biostatistics, or a closely related field, or who have received such a degree within the five years preceding the conference. Such investigators are often doing research that is among the most novel, interesting, and important for international dissemination, yet lack the travel funds necessary to attend such a conference, since they have not yet established a publication track record sufficient to attract external travel and other funding for their work. We have a commitment from ISBA to provide partial travel support for 10 young recent PhDs from economically disadvantaged countries, and are also seeking support from NSA for support for 10-15 additional young investigators. Specific goals and anticipated benefits of the conference include promoting the continued development of statistical theory and applications in finance, technology, environmental science, biomedicine and other areas, and a fuller exploration of the interplay of classical and Bayesian statistical methods in the context of specific areas of research.Statisticians play an indispensable role in the analysis of biomedical, environmental and public health data, from the study design stage all the way through to final analysis and report-writing. Statisticians also serve on a myriad of scientific review and advisory panels, as well as provide statistical training and consulting to substantive area researchers. Finally, the development of new statistical methodology for interpretation of data from clinical, observational, and laboratory studies is a key area of statistical endeavor. As a result, scholarly conferences where new ideas can be exchanged are important for statistical science to move forward. The benefit of and need for attendance at such meetings by junior statistical researchers is particularly great, since they contribute mightily to their professional development and help "level the playing field" with more established senior investigators. This grant provides support for the Fourth International Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis), to be held Wednesday, January 5 to Friday, January 7, 2011. The lion's share of the support we seek is to support the travel expenses of junior investigators.

这笔赠款为 IMS（数学统计研究所）和 ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）将于 2011 年 1 月 5 日星期三至 1 月 7 日星期五举行的第四届国际联席会议提供支持。会议的中心主题是马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗 (MCMC) 及相关方法和应用。大部分资金将用于支持初级生物统计研究人员的旅费，即在统计学、生物统计学或密切相关领域攻读博士学位或博士学位的人员，或在会议召开前五年内获得此类学位的人员。这些研究人员经常进行最新颖、最有趣、对国际传播最重要的研究，但缺乏参加此类会议所需的旅行资金，因为他们尚未建立足以吸引外部旅行和其他工作资金的出版记录。 ISBA 承诺为来自经济落后国家的 10 名年轻的新博士提供部分旅行支持，并且还在寻求 NSA 的支持，为另外 10-15 名年轻研究人员提供支持。会议的具体目标和预期效益包括促进统计理论和应用在金融、技术、环境科学、生物医学等领域的持续发展，以及在特定研究领域中更全面地探索经典统计方法和贝叶斯统计方法的相互作用。从研究设计阶段一直到最终分析和报告撰写，统计学家在生物医学、环境和公共卫生数据分析中发挥着不可或缺的作用。统计学家还担任众多科学审查和咨询小组的成员，并向实质性领域研究人员提供统计培训和咨询。最后，开发新的统计方法来解释临床、观察和实验室研究的数据是统计工作的一个关键领域。因此，能够交流新思想的学术会议对于统计科学的发展非常重要。初级统计研究人员参加此类会议的好处和必要性特别大，因为他们对自己的专业发展做出了巨大贡献，并有助于与更成熟的高级研究人员“创造公平的竞争环境”。这笔赠款为将于 2011 年 1 月 5 日星期三至 1 月 7 日星期五举行的 IMS（数学统计研究所）和 ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）第四次国际联席会议提供支持。我们寻求的支持的最大部分是支持初级研究人员的差旅费。