SM: Student Travel Grant for SIAM Data Mining Conference 2008

研究人员将使用这笔赠款的资金，以支持学生的旅行到2008年SIAM数据挖掘（SDM 2008）数据挖掘会议。本次会议将于2008年4月24日至4月26日在美国亚特兰大举行（http：//www.siam.org/meetings/sdm08/），由计算机科学家和统计学家联合举办，是展示数据挖掘领域最新研究成果的重要场所，该领域的研究人员和从业人员将广泛参加。获奖者的选择将根据其研究进展的质量以及参加本次会议的潜力进行。将特别重视研究生，特别是妇女和代表人数不足的少数民族学生，因为参加会议是他们教育经历的一个重要部分，而他们的旅费往往有限，参加诸如可持续发展会议之类的会议对研究生的发展至关重要。参与者有机会展示他们的工作，参加小组和主题演讲，并与数百名在该领域进行前沿研究的其他人互动。这些经验在许多方面帮助学生。首先，它使他们能够接触到广泛的前沿思想在他们的领域，超出了他们可能会接触到在他们的家乡机构和研究小组。其次，它为他们提供了一个机会，以满足既定的研究人员，这可能会导致长期的互动和指导关系。第三，如果他们正在提交论文，它提供了一个机会，让广大观众对他们的论文研究和演讲技巧进行早期反馈。所有这些好处都是非常宝贵的，以确保研究卓越的发展，导致在创新研究的生产性职业生涯。鉴于尖端创新对美国在世界上的经济优势至关重要，而受过创新培训的未来劳动力对其至关重要，拟议的项目与国家议程非常一致。

The investigator will use the funds from this grant to support the travel of students to the 2008 SIAM Data Mining (SDM 2008) Conference on Data Mining. This conference will be held in Atlanta, USA from April 24th to April 26th, 2008 (http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm08/).Jointly organized by computer scientists and statisticians, this technical conference is a premiere venue for presenting new research results in the area of data mining, and is widely attended by researchers and practitioners in the field. Selection of award recipients will be done on the basis of quality of their research progress, as well as the potential to benefit from attending this meeting. Special emphasis will be given to graduate students, and in particular women and under-represented minority students, since attending conferences is an important part of their educational experience, and they often have limited travel funds.Attending conferences such as SDM is of paramount importance for the development of graduate students. Participants have the opportunity to present their work, attend panel and keynote sessions, and interact with hundreds of others performing leading-edge research in the field.Such experiences help students in a number of ways ways. First, it enables them to get exposure to a wide range of cutting edge ideas in their field, beyond what they are likely to be exposed to in their home institutions and research groups. Second, it provides them an opportunity to meet established researchers, which can potentially lead to long term interactions and mentoring relationships. Third, in case they are presenting a paper, it provides an opportunity for early feedback on their thesis research and presentation skills from a broad audience. All of these benefits are invaluable in ensuring the development of research excellence, leading to a productive career in innovative research. Given that cutting edge innovation is critical to the United States' economic preeminence in the world, and a future workforce trained to be innovative is critical for it, the proposed project is well aligned with the national agenda.