Travel grants for U.S. participants to attend WCPS 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

为参加2012年7月9日至14日在土耳其伊斯坦布尔举行的第8届世界概率与统计大会，约20名美国与会者（新近获得博士学位的人、女性和少数族裔成员）申请旅行支持。大会是在伯努利数理统计与概率学会和数理统计研究所的主持下组织的。每四年举行一次，是统计学、概率和随机过程领域的研究人员聚集在一起的重大世界性事件。研究人员在其职业生涯初期智力发展的一个重要部分是参加国际会议，在那里他们有机会与从事广泛主题工作的人进行互动。会议涵盖了广泛的活跃研究领域，并设有14个邀请全体演讲，由领先的专家提出。此外，将有40个特别邀请会议，每个会议包括三个讲座，以及专题和海报会议，涵盖应用和理论概率论，统计和随机过程的许多方面。

Travel support is requested for about twenty U.S. participants (recent Ph.D.s, women, and members of underrepresented minority groups) to attend the 8th World Congress on Probability and Statistics to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 9th to 14th of July, 2012. The Congress is organized under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It is the major worldwide event bringing together researchers working in the fields of statistics, probability and stochastic processes and is held every four years.An important part of the intellectual development of researchers at the beginning of their career is to attend international conferences where they have an opportunity to interacts with people working in a wide range of topics. The conference covers a wide range of active research areas and features 14 Invited Plenary Lectures presented by leading specialists. In addition, there will be 40 special Invited Sessions, consisting of three talks each, as well as Contributed and Poster Sessions covering many aspects of applied and theoretical probability, statistics and stochastic processes.