Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference

该项目为为期两天半的妇女统计和数据科学（WSDS）会议提供支持，该会议将于2016年10月20日至22日在北卡罗来纳州夏洛特举行。本次会议的重点是通过交流思想和就重要的、现代的和前沿的研究发表技术演讲，讨论如何建立富有成效的多学科合作，并展示成功的女性专业人士的成就，增强女性统计学家、生物统计学家和数据科学家的权能。特别是，本次会议的最终目标是增加成功的女性研究人员的比例，这些女性研究人员具有技术技能，能力和倾向，能够应对二十一世纪“大数据”研究的挑战。为期两天半的会议（从10月20日下午开始）有多个平行的技术会议，为与会者提供了解应对大数据挑战的新方法和创新的机会。技术会议由职业发展会议补充，从研究生到高级教授，领导力发展会议，以及正式和非正式的辅导会议。该会议通过多个受邀技术会议，突出了女性后起之秀，职业中期和高级研究人员的研究，并提供了建立新合作的机会。此外，学术界、政府和行业参与者的辅导和网络会议指导早期职业妇女参与者走上成功的职业轨道。会议网址：http://www.amstat.org/meetings/wsds/2016/index.cfm

This project provides support for a two and a half day Women in Statistics and Data Science (WSDS) Conference, which takes place in October 20 to 22, 2016 in Charlotte, NC. The focus of this conference is to empower women statisticians, biostatisticians, and data scientists by exchanging ideas and presenting technical talks on important, modern and cutting-edge research, discussing how to establish fruitful multi-disciplinary collaborations, and showcasing the accomplishments of successful women professionals. In particular, an ultimate objective of this conference is to increase the proportion of successful women researchers who have the technical skills, capacity and inclination to take on the challenges of 'big-data' oriented research in twenty-first century. The two and half-a-day conference (starting the afternoon of October 20th) has multiple parallel technical sessions providing participants with the opportunity to learn about novel approaches and innovations addressing the challenges of big data. The technical sessions are complemented by career development sessions for all stages of participants starting from graduate students to senior professors, leadership development sessions, and formal and informal mentoring sessions. The conference, through multiple invited technical sessions highlights the research of female rising stars, mid-career and senior researchers and provides the opportunity to establish new collaborations. In addition, the mentoring and networking sessions of academic, government and industry participants guide early-career women participants on a successful career trajectory. Conference URL: http://www.amstat.org/meetings/wsds/2016/index.cfm