REU Site: The Rice University Summer Institute of Statistics (RUSIS)

该奖项提供了一个成功的10周的夏季REU网站在莱斯大学统计系内的统计研究及其应用的持续支持。随着国内数学科学研究生人数的持续下降，迫切需要开发人力资源，以继续支持美国在世界科技领域的优势。莱斯大学夏季统计研究所（RUSIS），现在在其第10年和第四个资助周期，已成功地鼓励学生攻读数学和统计学研究生学位。大约85%的学生谁参加了RUSIS和毕业，现在是博士研究生在博士。全国各地的计划，其中大约61%是数学代表性不足的人口的成员。RUSIS通过强化课程，密切监督研究项目，并访问休斯顿的各种研究机构和机构来实现这一目标。该计划将培训和指导12名（7个NSF和5个NSA支持）选择代表性不足的少数民族学生和学生在他们的机构，包括社区学院的学生，通过概率，随机过程和统计推断的密集核心课程，并特别强调当前感兴趣的领域，不易获得研究经验;例如多重比较、极值理论、多变量生存分析、复杂基础设施系统的风险-可靠性-可持续性、人工智能、统计学习、统计遗传学和一般生物统计学。RUSIS让学生在与教师导师密切合作的情况下参与研究项目，并在暑期工作值得时制作联合出版物。学生在国家会议上展示他们的成果，并指导他们准备和展示他们的演讲。此外，学生会见由顶尖科学家组成的咨询委员会，并向他们介绍他们的工作。RUSIS还教授有关使用Unix平台，LaTeX和用于研究目的的软件（如Mathematica，Splus和/或R和Matlab）的短期课程。此外，该计划还组织学生和教师参观科学设施（例如，MD安德森癌症中心，美国宇航局的生物数学和生物统计学）。通过非正式会议，该计划讨论了各种主题，从申请研究生院到杰出科学家的职业经历，以及统计学前沿主题的讨论。该计划评估和监测学生的进展为七年（预计时间为他们完成研究生院）后，他们的参与，并由参与的学生和外部咨询委员会的程序的年度评估是该计划的一个组成部分和宝贵的一部分。投资开始产生具体成果。第一个RUSIS校友获得了博士学位。在2011年夏天，现在是一个统计科学的博士助理教授。程序.还有几个人将在未来几年内获得博士学位。

This award provides continued support for a successful 10-week summer REU site within the Statistics Department at Rice University for the study of Statistics and its applications. As the number of domestic graduate students in the Mathematical Sciences continues to decline, there is a critical need to develop human resources to continue supporting the United States' advantage in the world of science and technology. The Rice University Summer Institute of Statistics (RUSIS), now in its 10th year and fourth funding cycle, has been successful in encouraging students to pursue graduate degrees in Mathematics and Statistics. Roughly 85% of the students who have attended RUSIS and have graduated, are now doctoral students in Ph.D. programs around the country, and roughly 61% of them are members of underrepresented populations in Mathematics. RUSIS has accomplished this through intensive courses, close supervision of research projects, and visits to various research institutes and agencies in Houston. The program will train and mentor 12 (7 NSF- and 5 NSA-supported) selected underrepresented minority students and students with no easy access to a research experience at their institution, including community college students, through intensive core courses in probability, stochastic processes, and statistical inference, with special emphasis on areas of current interest; e.g. multiple comparisons, extreme value theory, multivariate survival analysis, risk-reliability-sustainability of complex infrastructure systems, artificial intelligence, statistical learning, statistical genetics, and general biostatistics. The RUSIS engages the students in research projects under close collaboration with faculty mentors, and with the objective of producing joint publications, when the summer work merits it. Students present their results at national meetings and they are mentored in the preparation and presentation of their talks. In addition, students meet with an advisory committee composed of top scientists and present their work to them. The RUSIS also teaches short courses on the use of Unix platforms, LaTeX, and software to be utilized for research purposes such as Mathematica, Splus and/or R, and Matlab. In addition, the program organizes student and faculty visits to scientific facilities (e.g., Biomathematics and Biostatistics at MD Anderson Cancer Center, NASA). Through informal meetings, the program discusses a variety of topics ranging from applying to Graduate School to career experiences by outstanding scientists, and discussion of cutting-edge topics in Statistics. The program evaluates and monitors the progress of students for seven years (expected time for them to finish graduate school) after their participation, and an annual evaluation of the program by the participating students and an external advisory committee is an integral and valuable part of the program. The investment is starting to produce concrete results. The first RUSIS alumnus received his Ph.D. during the summer of 2011 and is now an assistant professor of statistical sciences in a Ph.D. program. Several more are due to obtain their PhDs in the next few years.