Travel Support for High Dimensional Statistics in Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议支持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2008年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。这是将于2008年1月7日至7月27日举行的大型项目“复杂高维数据的统计理论与方法”的一部分。本次研讨会由Ewan Birney （EBI）、Richard Durbin（桑格研究所）、Wolfgang Huber （EBI）和Peter Bickel（加州大学伯克利分校）共同主办，Peter Bickel是本次研讨会的发起人和组织者之一。研讨会旨在为来自EBI和桑格研究所以及美国和欧洲的跨学科生物学家提供一个场所，与当时在牛顿研究所居住的国际高维数据分析专家小组以及来自美国和欧洲的其他应邀参加研讨会的人交流思想和挑战。其形式是：1)概述讲座主要由生物学家讲授他们基于高维数据的研究中出现的主要建模和预测问题；2)概述讲座由统计学家、数学家和计算机科学家讲授在这种分析中可能很重要的各种方法；3)由参与者进行讨论，这可能导致富有成效的合作。获得赠款支持的初级与会者将是使讨论取得成果的关键。

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.