IX Latin American Conference on Probability and Mathematical Statistics

摘要：第九届拉丁美洲概率与数理统计会议于2004年3月23日至27日在乌拉圭埃斯特角城召开。会议组织者组织活动，为与会者提供尽可能多的讨论机会，并创造一个欢迎希望展示自己工作的年轻研究人员和研究生的环境。几个入门短期课程的主题，从随机微积分与金融应用，到图形模型，以及贝叶斯框架中的模型选择。此外，还组织了关于课程主题的特别讨论会议，以促进年轻研究人员与更资深的同事之间的互动。在过去的12年里，拉丁美洲和美国数学科学家之间的合作增加了许多倍。一个重要的结果是，来自拉丁美洲院校的训练有素的学生越来越多，他们选择在美国大学攻读研究生课程，然后与美国学术界建立了密切而持久的联系。在某种程度上，这种增加的互动是由于一系列拉丁美洲概率和统计会议，这些会议通常每两年在一个拉丁美洲国家举行一次，通常有相当多的美国代表团参加。随着时间的推移，这些会议的规模和重要性都在增长，并为创建一个应用概率学家和统计学家的社区做出了贡献，他们渴望在跨学科团队中工作，以解决对社会重要的复杂问题。美国国家科学基金会通过资助美国科学家和来自除古巴以外的某些拉丁美洲国家的科学家的旅行奖，一直是这些讲习班的重要赞助者。美国国家科学基金会为第九届拉丁美洲会议申请的资金将部分用于支付10名美国与会者和来自阿根廷、巴西、智利、古巴、墨西哥、委内瑞拉以外国家的6名拉丁美洲与会者的旅费。

ABSTRACT: The IX Latin American Conference on Probability and Mathematical Statistics is held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from March 23 to March 27, 2004. Conference organizers structure activities to provide as much opportunity as possible for discussions among conference participants, and to create an environment that is welcoming of young researchers and graduate students who wish to present their work. Several introductory short courses on topics ranging from stochastic calculus with financial applications, to graphical models, and model selection in a Bayesian framework, are taught. In addition, special discussion sessions on course topics are organized, to facilitate the interaction between young researchers and their more senior colleagues. In the past twelve years, collaboration between Latin American and US mathematical scientists has increased many-fold. One important consequence has been the growth of well-trained students from Latin American institutions who choose to enroll in graduate programs in American universities and who then develop close and enduring ties to the US academic community. In part, this increased interaction is due to the series of Latin American conferences in probability and statistics, that are generally held every two years in a Latin American country, and that typically include a significant contingent of US participants. The conferences have grown both in size and importance over time, and have contributed to the creation of a community of applied probabilists and statisticians who are eager to work in interdisciplinary teams to solve complex problems of importance to society. The National Science Foundation, through its funding of travel awards for US scientists and for scientists from selected Latin American countries excluding Cuba , has been an important sponsor of these workshops. The funding requested from NSF for the IX Latin American conference will be used to partially cover travel expenses of 10 US participants and of six Latin American conference participants from countries other than Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela.