Conference on Advanced Statistical Methods for Underground Seismic Event Monitoring and Verification

地下地震事件监测与验证的先进统计方法会议将于2013年3月7日至8日在华盛顿特区举行。地下地震事件的监测与验证能力对国家安全和防灾备灾至关重要。监测与验证技术的研究与开发已得到广泛开展。在传感器的发展和地震信号处理方法的发展方面取得了重大进展，这些方法能够验证任何地下地震事件，并区分由不同机制产生的信号，传感器放置在离事件现场很远的地方。研究和发展是高度跨学科的，涉及地球物理学、传感器开发、信号处理和统计学。为了进一步加强统计学家与其他科学家在该领域的合作，并探讨将最先进的统计方法与先进的传感器技术相结合的潜在方法，我们建议组织一次地下地震事件监测与验证的先进统计方法会议。会议将汇集统计学家和该领域的其他专家，讨论该领域的现状，交换意见，并集思广益。会议还将提供一个场所，使统计学家对这一领域产生新的兴趣，争取统计学家带来他们新的统计思想和方法来处理这一重要问题。这次会议将是学术界和联邦机构之间的合作。联邦机构的专家将分享他们的观点和经验，以及任何紧迫的具体问题。会议将包括全体会议和讨论家介绍他们的研究成果和未来研究的建议，鼓励现场讨论，以及一个研究小组会议，与会者被分成几个小组，讨论和审议具体的主题。最后，会议组织者将制作一份报告，与联邦机构和参与者分享，并在诸如ASA新闻之类的科学界时事通讯中发表，以引起更大社区的兴趣。会议将吸引、参与、教育和培训学生和下一代科学家，利用先进的统计和数学工具在地下地震事件探测技术的研究和开发领域工作。这种接触和培训对于他们成为能够与该领域的科学家和研究人员有效合作的统计学家，并对在地下事件探测和相关领域难以解决的实际问题提出新的创新办法是必不可少的。

The Conference on Advanced Statistical Methods for Underground Seismic Event Monitoring and Verification will be held March 7-8, 2013 in Washington DC area. The ability of monitoring and verification of underground seismic events is vital to national security and disaster preparation and prevention. The research and development of monitoring and verification technology have been extensive. Significant advances have been made in sensor development and also in the development of seismic signal processing methodologies that have the ability to verify any underground seismic events as well as distinguish signals generated from different mechanisms with sensors placed a vast distance away from the event site. The research and development is highly interdisciplinary, involving geophysics, sensor development, signal processing, and statistics. To further enhance the collaboration between statisticians and other scientists in the field and to investigate the potential approaches of combining state-of-art statistical methods with advanced sensor technology, we propose to organize a conference on advanced statistical methods for underground seismic event monitoring and verification. The conference will bring statisticians and the other experts in the field together to discuss the current status of field, to exchange ideas, and to brainstorm novel approaches. The conference will also serve a venue to generate new interests among statisticians to this field, to enlist statisticians to bring in their new statistical ideas and approaches to deal with this important problem.The conference will be collaboration between academics and federal agencies. The experts in the federal agencies will share their vision and experience and also any urgent specific problems. The conference will consists of general sessions where plenary speakers and discussants present their research findings and proposals of future research, with floor discussion encouraged, and a study group session where participants are separated into several groups and discuss and deliberate specific topics. At the end, the conference organizer will produce a report to be shared with federal agencies and participants, and be published in scientific community newsletters such as ASA news to generate interests in the larger community. The conference will attract, engage, educate and train students and next generation scientists to work in the area of research and development of underground seismic event detection technology using advanced statistical and mathematical tools. Such exposure and training is essential for them to become statisticians capable of collaborating effectively with scientists and researchers in the field and to generate new innovative approaches to real problems that have been difficult to tackle in underground event detection and related fields.