Statistics and Biostatistics Department Chairs Workshop

统计与生物统计系主任研讨会

• 批准号: 1628941
• 负责人: Steve Pierson
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: American Statistical Association
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-15 至 2017-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1628941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Statistics; Biostatistics; Department; Chairs; Workshop

This award supports travel for participants in the U.S. Statistics and Biostatistics Department Chairs Workshop held July 12-13, 2016 at the American Statistical Association in Alexandria, Virginia. Enrollments in statistics courses as well as statistics degrees awarded are surging across U.S. universities. The numbers of universities granting both graduate and undergraduate degrees in statistics and biostatistics are at all-time highs. At the same time, data science is emerging as an important research program and the demand for data science skills is rapidly increasing in the public and private sectors. Since statistics represents a foundational discipline in data science, statistics and biostatistics department chairs need to ensure statisticians are effective partners in intramural and extramural university data science programs. This workshop brings together statistics and biostatistics department chairs to address current challenges and learn directly from funding agency and private sector representatives about data science and research funding trends, in order to help statistics and biostatistics departments ensure a comprehensive approach both to data science research and to training graduates with skills that meet workforce demands. Statisticians and statistics play a very important role in advancing science. This workshop provides an opportunity for statistics, biostatistics, and related department chairs to discuss current trends, challenges, and opportunities relating to surging enrollments, workforce needs, research trends, data science, and other issues. To inform discussions, participants will hear from private sector representatives concerning workforce needs, funding agency representatives on funding programs and trends, academic leaders on statistics and data science education, and university administrators on cross-campus research and educational efforts. Because a goal of this workshop is to equip department chairs to further engage their faculty in cross-campus interdisciplinary research and data science efforts, the workshop has strong potential to improve scientific research. Proceedings of the workshop will be recorded, summarized, and disseminated in a format constructive to the participants and the broader community. More information can be found at the workshop web page:https://www.amstat.org/meetings/dcworkshop/

该奖项支持美国统计和生物统计部门主席研讨会的参与者的旅行，该研讨会于2016年7月12日至13日在弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市的美国统计协会举行。美国各大学统计学课程的入学人数和统计学学位的授予人数都在激增。授予统计学和生物统计学研究生和本科学位的大学数量达到历史最高水平。与此同时，数据科学正在成为一个重要的研究项目，公共和私营部门对数据科学技能的需求正在迅速增长。由于统计学是数据科学的基础学科，统计学和生物统计学系主任需要确保统计学家是校内和校外大学数据科学项目的有效合作伙伴。 该研讨会汇集了统计和生物统计部门主席，以应对当前的挑战，并直接从资助机构和私营部门代表那里了解数据科学和研究资金趋势，以帮助统计和生物统计部门确保数据科学研究和培训毕业生的全面方法，以满足劳动力需求。统计学家和统计学在推动科学发展方面起着非常重要的作用。本次研讨会为统计学，生物统计学和相关部门主席提供了一个机会，讨论当前的趋势，挑战和与激增的入学率，劳动力需求，研究趋势，数据科学和其他问题有关的机遇。为了让讨论更有说服力，与会者将听取私营部门代表关于劳动力需求的意见，资助机构代表关于资助计划和趋势的意见，学术领袖关于统计和数据科学教育的意见，以及大学管理人员关于跨校园研究和教育工作的意见。因为这个研讨会的目标是装备系主任，以进一步从事跨校园的跨学科研究和数据科学工作的教师，研讨会有很大的潜力，以提高科学研究。讲习班的会议记录将以一种对与会者和更广泛的社区具有建设性的形式加以记录、总结和传播。更多信息请访问研讨会网页：https://www.amstat.org/meetings/dcworkshop/