CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences - Model Uncertainty and Multiplicity

该奖项将支持于2012年夏天在加州大学圣克鲁斯分校举行的NSF/CMBS区域会议，主题为统计模型的不确定性和多样性。主讲人将是杜克大学的詹姆斯·伯杰教授。该奖项将支持29名处于职业生涯不同阶段的参与者。会议将讨论统计模型不确定性和多样性的长期方法论挑战，以及21世纪科学应用（如复杂模型和大数据集）推动的该领域的最新发展。该会议旨在通过提供一个组织良好的概述来吸引新的研究人员进入这一领域，并且还打算加强美国西部多个研究小组之间的联系和合作。

This award will support an NSF/CMBS regional conference to be held at the University of California at Santa Cruz in the summer of 2012 on the topic of statistical model uncertainty and multiplicity. The principal speaker will be Professor James Berger from Duke University. This award will support 29 participants at different stages of their careers. The conference will address longstanding methodological challenges of statistical model uncertainty and multiplicity along with the recent developments in the area that have been driven by 21st century scientific applications such as complex models and large data sets. The conference aims to attract new researchers to this field by providing a well-organized overview and also intends to strengthen links and collaborations between multiple groups of researchers in the western United States.