EMSW21-VIGRE: Vertical Integration of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics.

斯坦福大学提出了一种新方法，以提高统计学研究生学习的知名度，并吸引有才华和对定量科学感兴趣的美国国民加入其统计学研究生课程。这一努力建立在斯坦福大学统计系的现有实力及其与三个同源“目标”领域——计算生物学、数学金融和信息科学——的发展联系的基础上，从而吸引了美国国民进入数学科学领域。在这三个目标领域中，该系将扩展现有的成功研究活动，这是经典博士培养的基础，以吸引本科生，硕士生和相关领域的博士生的关注和参与。这样的学生有定量计算的能力，通过给他们提供智力发现的生动体验，并展示统计方法对激动人心的科学发现是多么重要，他们将被“俘获”到数学科学的轨道上。研究和教育的垂直整合部分是通过招收博士后和本科生专攻这些相关领域，并通过组织主题活动促进本科生、研究生、博士后和教师之间的互动来实现的。一项外联和指导工作每年将使更多的女性参与者和代表性不足的少数群体成员参加项目主要主题的夏季研究和教育活动。斯坦福大学统计学拥有极高的声誉，在全国排名中名列前茅，并且拥有一支具有极高知名度的杰出师资队伍。被选为目标的领域是国家重要的中心领域，斯坦福大学的教师在这些领域拥有国际声誉，是这些领域的领导者，VIGRE的努力将监督博士后和学生在这些领域的前沿研究。这一努力的目的正是为了在公认的国际领导者的指导下，让具有强大实践技能和定量才能的同源领域的学生更直接地参与人类知识前沿的智力发现。通过扩大斯坦福统计系在相关领域的影响力，我们扩大了所有学生的机会，包括VIGRE参与者和该系轨道上的其他人。通过正式开设金融数学、计算生物学和信息科学课程，斯坦福大学将为其统计学课程注入新的活力和重点。由于斯坦福大学在统计学领域处于全国领先地位，预计许多其他美国大学将密切关注这一努力，并复制其最成功的举措。

Stanford University proposes a novel approach to increasing the visibility of graduate studies in statistics, and for drawing U.S. nationals who are talented and interested in quantitative sciences into its graduate programs in statistics. This effort builds upon the existing strength of Stanford's Statistics department and its developed links with three cognate "target" fields -- Computational Biology, Mathematical Finance, and Information Science -- resulting in the attraction of U.S. nationals into the mathematical sciences.In each of the three target fields, the department will expand an existing successful research activity, which is a basis for classical Ph.D. training, in such a way as to attract the attention and participation of undergraduates, Masters' students, and beginning Ph.D. students in cognate fields. Such students are quantitatively able and will be "captured" into the orbit of the mathematical sciences by offering them a lively experience of intellectual discovery, and demonstrating how essential statistical methodology is to exciting scientific discoveries.Vertical integration of research and education is to be achieved in part by hosting postdoctoral fellows and undergraduates specializing in each of these cognate fields, and by organizing thematic activities that promote the interaction between undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty.An outreach and mentoring effort will bring each year additional female participants and members of under-represented minority groups for summer research and education activities in the main themes of the project.Stanford Statistics has a superb reputation, with a top national rating, and an outstanding mix of faculty with extremely high visibility. The fields chosen as targets are central areas of national importance, the Stanford faculty have international reputations as leaders in these fields, and the VIGRE effort will supervise postdocs and students in cutting-edge research in these areas. The effort aims exactly to move students in cognate fields with strong practical skills and quantitative talent to engage more directly in intellectual discovery at the frontiers of human knowledge, under the direction of acknowledged international leaders. By expanding the Stanford Statistics department's reach into the cognate areas we expand the opportunities of all our students, both VIGRE participants and everyone else in the orbit of the department. By posing formal initiatives in Financial Mathematics, Computational Biology and Information Science, Stanford will bring new energy and focus into its statistics curriculum. As Stanford has a national leadership position in the field of Statistics, many other U.S. universities are expected to closely watch this effort and replicate its most successful initiatives.