Travel grants for U.S. participants to attend WCPS 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

约20名美国与会者(新近获得博士学位、妇女和代表性不足的少数群体成员)将参加将于2012年7月9日至14日在土耳其伊斯坦布尔举行的第八届世界概率与统计大会。大会是在伯努利数理统计和概率学会和数理统计研究所的赞助下组织的。它是将统计学、概率和随机过程领域的研究人员聚集在一起的世界性重大活动，每四年举行一次。研究人员在职业生涯之初的智力发展的一个重要部分是参加国际会议，在那里他们有机会与从事广泛主题工作的人进行互动。会议涵盖了广泛的活跃研究领域，并邀请了14位知名专家进行全会演讲。此外，将有40场特别邀请的会议，每个会议包括三次演讲，以及涉及应用和理论概率、统计学和随机过程的许多方面的投稿和海报会议。

Travel support is requested for about twenty U.S. participants (recent Ph.D.s, women, and members of underrepresented minority groups) to attend the 8th World Congress on Probability and Statistics to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 9th to 14th of July, 2012. The Congress is organized under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It is the major worldwide event bringing together researchers working in the fields of statistics, probability and stochastic processes and is held every four years.An important part of the intellectual development of researchers at the beginning of their career is to attend international conferences where they have an opportunity to interacts with people working in a wide range of topics. The conference covers a wide range of active research areas and features 14 Invited Plenary Lectures presented by leading specialists. In addition, there will be 40 special Invited Sessions, consisting of three talks each, as well as Contributed and Poster Sessions covering many aspects of applied and theoretical probability, statistics and stochastic processes.