Travel Support for High Dimensional Statistics in Biology

描述(由申请者提供)：我们建议资助10名美国初级研究人员、学生或博士后参加2008年3月31日至4月7日在英国剑桥艾萨克·牛顿数学科学研究所举行的“生物学高维统计”研讨会的旅费和每日津贴。这是一个大型项目“复杂高维数据的统计理论和方法”的一部分，该项目将于2008年1月7日至7月27日举行。本次研讨会的联合组织者有Ewan Birney(EBI)、Richard Durbin(Sanger Institute)、Wolfgang Huber(EBI)和Peter Bickel(加州大学伯克利分校)，他们是计划的提出者和组织者之一。研讨会的目的是为来自EBI和桑格研究所以及美国和欧洲的生物学家组成的跨学科小组提供一个场所，与当时常驻牛顿研究所的高维数据分析国际专家组和其他应邀参加研讨会的美国和欧洲的其他人交流想法和挑战。其形式是1)主要由生物学家就基于高维数据的研究中出现的主要建模和预测问题进行概述讲座，以及2)统计学家、数学家和计算机科学家关于在此类分析中可能重要的方法类型的概述讲座3)参与者讨论可能导致富有成效的合作。获得赠款支持的初级参与者将是使讨论富有成果的关键。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to support travel and per diem for 10 US junior researchers, students, or post-docs to attend a workshop, "High Dimensional Statistics in Biology" to be held March 31, 2008 through April 7, 2008 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, England. This is part of a large program, "Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex High Dimensional Data," to be held January 7, 2008 through July 27, 2008. This workshop has as co-organizers, Ewan Birney (EBI), Richard Durbin (Sanger Institute), Wolfgang Huber (EBI) and Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), the proposer and one of the program organizers. The workshop aims to provide a venue for an interdisciplinary group of biologists drawn from both EBI and Sanger Institute, and the United States and Europe generally to exchange ideas and challenges with both the international group of experts on high dimensional data analysis who are in residence at the Newton Institute at the time and others invited to attend the workshop from the US and Europe generally. The format is to have 1) overview lectures primarily by biologists on the major modeling and prediction questions arising in their research based on high dimensional data and 2) overview lectures by statisticians, mathematicians, and computer scientists on types of methods which could be important in such analysis 3) discussion by the participants which might lead to fruitful collaborations. The junior participants supported by the grant would be the key to making the discussions fruitful.