International Indian Statistical Association 2020 Conference: Statistics in the Era of Evidence-Based Inference

为期四天的国际会议“IISA 2020：基于证据的推理时代的统计”将于2020年7月16日至7月19日在伊利诺伊州伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）举行。会议的主要目标是将积极从事统计学、生物统计学和数据科学及其在各个科学领域应用的理论和方法研究的成熟和新兴的年轻研究人员以及学生聚集在一起。会议的形式包括学生论文比赛和演讲、短期课程、全体会议、特别邀请演讲、邀请会议和贡献海报。会议努力在所有这些类别中保持妇女和少数民族的健康参与，并邀请年轻研究人员（在获得博士学位的五年内）参加会议。对于学生来说，会议将提供许多机会，包括学生论文比赛，快速会议以及短期课程。科学计划将跨越广泛的主题，从统计理论的基础到计算密集型方法和面向科学应用的数据建模，通过一系列会议分类为全体会议，特别邀请，邀请，学生论文竞赛，海报和小组讨论。按照IISA会议的传统，IISA 2020将举办一个充满活力的多阶段学生论文比赛。IISA2020的科学计划将有三位知名演讲者的全体会议，八位主要研究人员的特别邀请演讲和大约50个邀请会议，每个会议由三场演讲组成。会议是国际印度统计协会（IISA）的官方年度会议，IISA会员向所有人开放。IISA的目标是促进统计、概率和数据科学的教育、研究和应用，促进信息和学术活动的交流，满足年轻统计学家和数据科学家的需求，并鼓励会员在教育、研究、工业和商业方面的合作努力。IISA和伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）是会议的主要组织者。UIC是伊利诺伊大学系统的一部分，是芝加哥地区最大的大学，非常注重多样性。IISA 2020将汇集来自统计、生物统计、概率和数据科学等不同领域的领导者、新兴研究人员和学生，在协作环境中讨论和促进统计理论、方法和工具的前沿发展，以便从复杂、嘈杂、庞大和广泛的数据源中做出基于证据的统计推断。会议将促进统计、概率和数据科学的教育、研究和应用，并将促进芝加哥地区、中西部和美国各地科研机构之间的信息交流和学术活动。有关会议的最新信息和公告可在会议网站https://www.intindstat.org/iisaconference2020/This上获得。奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

IISA 2020: Statistics in the Era of Evidence Based Inference, a four-day international conference, will take place at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Illinois, from July 16 to July 19, 2020. The main objective of the conference is to bring together both well established and emerging young researchers, as well as students, who are actively pursuing theoretical and methodological research in statistics, biostatistics and data science and their applications in various scientific fields. The format of the conference includes student paper competitions and presentations, short courses, plenary talks, special invited talks, invited sessions and contributed posters. The conference strives to maintain a healthy presence of women and minority in all these categories and of young researchers (within five years of their doctoral degrees) in invited sessions. For students, the conference will provide numerous opportunities including student paper competitions, speed sessions as well as short courses. The scientific program will span a wide range of topics ranging from the fundamentals of statistical theory to computationally-intensive methods and scientific application oriented data modeling, through a number of sessions classified as plenary, special invited, invited, student paper competition, posters, and panel discussions. In the tradition of IISA conferences, IISA 2020 will host a vibrant multi-stage student paper competition. The scientific program of IISA2020 will have plenary talks by three eminent speakers, special invited talks by eight leading researchers and about 50 invited sessions, each consisting of three presentationsThe conference serves as the official annual meeting of the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA), IISA membership is open to all. IISA’s objectives are to promote education, research and application of statistics, probability and data science, to foster the exchange of information and scholarly activities, to serve the needs of young statisticians and data scientists and to encourage cooperative efforts among members in education, research, industry and business. IISA and University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) are the primary organizers of the conference. UIC is part of the University of Illinois system and is the largest university in the Chicago area with a strong focus on diversity. IISA 2020 will bring together leaders, emerging researchers and students from diverse areas of statistics, biostatistics, probability and data science in a collaborative setting to discuss and foster the cutting-edge developments of statistical theory, methods and tools for making evidence based statistical inference from complex, noisy, tall and wide data sources. The conference will promote education, research and application of statistics, probability and data science and will foster the exchange of information and scholarly activities among scientific institutions in Chicago area, Midwest and in institutions across the United States. The most up to date information and announcements regarding the conference is made available at the conference website https://www.intindstat.org/iisaconference2020/This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.