U.S.-Argentina Program: Latin American Congress on Statistics and Probability; Cordoba, Argentina, September 21-25, 1998

9804750美洲方案奖将资助1998年9月21日至25日在阿根廷科尔多瓦与伊比利亚美洲统计大会一起举行的拉丁美洲“概率和数理统计”讲习班。组织者是爱荷华州立大学的艾丽西亚·卡里查尔博士和普渡大学的菲利普·普罗特博士，他们与布宜诺斯艾利斯大学的维克托·约海博士合作。讲习班将侧重于统计科学和概率作为科学和社会调查的基本组成部分的重要性。主要目标将是讨论国际和拉丁美洲研究人员的新发展并确定共同的研究领域，以实现这些目标，与会者将讨论在其他研究领域广泛应用的统计和概率专题。与拉丁美洲过去十年或十五年来经济状况的改善相吻合，该地区的基础科学在数量和质量上都有了显著的改善。概率统计和数理统计处于这一前进运动的前沿，这主要是由于在环境统计、计量经济学和社会统计等领域的挑战性问题所导致的区域和国际合作。在不忽视概率统计的更多理论方面的同时，这项活动的重点是将数学科学应用于科学和社会调查的其他领域，突出方法论和跨学科协作。***

9804750 Carriquiry This Americas Program award will fund a Latin American workshop on "Probability and Mathematical Statistics", to be held in Cordoba,Argentina, September 21-25, 1998, in conjunction with the Iberoamerican Congress of Statistics. Organizers are Drs. Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University, and Philip Protter, Purdue University, in collaboration with Dr. Victor Yohai, Universidad de Buenos Aires. The workshop will focus on the importance of statistical science and probability as fundamental components of scientific and social inquiry. The main objectives will be to discuss new developments and identify common research areas for international and Latin American researchers In order to achieve these objectives participants will address topics in statistics and probability with wide application in other areas of research. Coinciding with the improvement of economic conditions in Latin America during the past ten or fifteen years, the basic sciences have experienced a markedly improvement in quantity and quality in the region. Probability and Mathematical Statistics are at the forefront of this forward movement, mostly due to the regional and international collaborations resulting from challenging problems in areas such as environmental statistics, econometrics and social statistics. While not disregarding the more theoretical aspects of probability and statistics, the emphasis of this activity is on the application of the mathematical sciences to other areas of scientific and social inquiry, highlighting methodology and interdisciplinary collaboration. ***