International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics

拟议的项目是一个统计会议“跨学科统计和组合学进展国际会议（AISC 2012）"。会议计划于2012年10月5日至7日在北卡罗来纳州格林斯伯勒的格林斯伯勒的北卡罗来纳州大学校园举行。会议的主要目标是促进涉及统计技术的跨学科研究。这些技术在科学发现的所有领域都变得越来越重要。拟议会议的一个独特之处是汇集了来自许多领域的国家公认的研究人员，如人类学，生物学，经济学，教育，环境科学，信息系统，保险，数学，医学，心理学和公共卫生。共同点是他们各自研究项目中使用的统计方法。统计学家通过接触其他学科的真实的问题而受益，其他学科的研究人员通过学习更多关于各种统计技术而受益。PI和两个Co-PI目前参与了几项合作研究赠款，并亲身体验了跨学科研究的重要性。会议的一个重要目标是通过为年轻研究人员提供与各自领域的知名研究人员互动的机会来培养他们。这些年轻的研究人员包括本科生研究人员，研究生研究人员和新的博士专门从事统计科学。他们有机会做口头介绍，而不是海报介绍。调查人员特别努力吸引妇女和少数民族候选人，在提供财政支助时给予她们更高的优先权。组织者计划联系位于格林斯伯勒的北卡罗来纳州农业技术州立大学、位于温斯顿-塞勒姆的温斯顿-塞勒姆州立大学和位于达勒姆的北卡罗来纳州中央大学的有关部门，这些大学都是历史上的黑人大学。他们还计划在统计界妇女委员会和统计界少数群体委员会（这两个委员会都是美国统计协会的委员会）的网页上发布会议通知，组织者还计划作出特别努力，满足残疾与会者的需要。有关会议的更多详情，请浏览 http://www.uncg.edu/mat/aisc/

The proposed project is a statistics conference "International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC 2012)". The plan is to hold the conference on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC during October 5-7, 2012. The main objective of the conference is to promote interdisciplinary research involving statistical techniques. These techniques are becoming increasingly important in all fields of scientific discovery. A unique feature of the proposed conference is to bring together nationally recognized researchers from many fields such as anthropology, biology, economics, education, environmental science, information systems, insurance, mathematics, medicine, psychology, and public health. The common thread is the statistical methods used in their respective research programs. The statisticians benefit by getting exposed to real problems from other disciplines and researchers from other disciplines benefit by learning more about various statistical techniques. The PI and both Co-PIs are currently involved in several collaborative research grants and have experienced firsthand the significance of interdisciplinary research. An important objective of the conference is to groom young researchers by providing them an opportunity to interact with established researchers in their respective fields. These young researchers include undergraduate researchers, graduate student researchers and new PhDs specializing in statistical sciences. They are given the opportunity to make oral presentations as opposed to poster presentations. The investigators are specifically trying to attract women and minority candidates by giving them higher priority in awarding financial support. The organizers plan to contact appropriate departments at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, and North Carolina Central University in Durham, all historically black universities. They also plan to place conference announcement on the web pages of the Committee on Women in Statistics and the Committee on Minorities in Statistics (both committees of the American Statistical Association).The organizers also plan to make special efforts to accommodate the needs of the participants with disabilities. More details about the conference are available at the website http://www.uncg.edu/mat/aisc/