International Travel Grant to Support U.S. Researchers to Attend the International Statistical Institute Satellite Meeting on Small Area Estimation

将于2015年8月3日至5日在智利圣地亚哥举行为期三天的题为第一次拉丁美洲国际统计研究所小区域估计卫星会议的国际会议。这次会议将是国际统计研究所(统计所)和国际调查统计师协会(统计协会)的正式会议，并将为其成员和一个庞大的国际统计学家和社会科学家群体提供一个独特的机会，就小区域估计问题举行会议和交流意见，小区域估计是一个不断发展的跨学科领域，在现实生活中有着广泛的应用。会议将包括为从事小区域估计和相关领域工作的学生和年轻研究人员提供强有力的指导。会议旨在为主要专家和青年研究人员提供一个论坛，讨论在小面积估计方面的最新进展，从而为各个领域的小面积估计提供新的方向。该奖项为来自美国机构的研究生提供部分旅行支持和注册，让他们参加并参加这次会议，以传播他们的研究并开展合作。这次会议的主要目的是将来自世界各地的成熟的和新兴的年轻研究人员聚集在一起，他们积极从事小区域估计及其应用方面的理论和方法研究。会议将有一系列出色的受邀会议、专题会议、投稿会议和海报会议，涵盖小区域估计中的各种主题。这些方法包括重采样方法、分层建模、时间序列、高阶渐近性以及不同的实际应用。此外，还将举行海报展示环节，为初级教职员工和学生提供展示他们的研究成果的机会。这应该会加速和加强对参与者的研究。这次会议也将适当地促进小区域估算方法在科学中的作用。会议网页：http://www.encuestas.uc.cl/sae2015/

A three-day international meeting titled First Latin American International Statistical Institute Satellite Meeting on Small Area Estimation will take place in Santiago, Chile, during August 3-5, 2015. The meeting will serve as an official meeting of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) and will provide its members and a large international group of statisticians and social scientists a unique opportunity to meet and exchange ideas on small area estimation, a growing interdisciplinary field with a wide range of real life applications. The meeting will include a strong mentoring component for students and young researchers working on small area estimation and related areas. The meeting aims to provide a forum for leading experts and young researchers to discuss recent progress in small area estimation, thereby providing new directions for small area estimation in various fields. This award provides partial travel support and registration for graduate students from U.S. institutions to attend and participate in this meeting in order to disseminate their research and develop collaborations. The main objective of this meeting is to bring together both well-established and emerging young researchers from around the world who are actively pursuing theoretical and methodological research in small area estimation and their applications. The meeting will have an excellent slate of invited, special topic, contributed, and poster sessions covering a wide variety of topics in small area estimation. These include resampling methods, hierarchical modeling, time series, higher-order asymptotics, and different real life applications. In addition, a poster session will be held, which will provide an opportunity for junior faculty and students to showcase their research work. This should lead to acceleration and enhancement of research for participants. The meeting will also be a fitting promotion of the role of small area estimation methodology in science. Conference web page: http://www.encuestas.uc.cl/sae2015/