Workshop: St. Louis Area Methods Meeting Graduate Student Colloquium - Ames, Iowa - April 20, 2018

圣路易斯地区方法会议（SLAMM）为参与者提供了一个独特的机会。它足够大，可以吸引高质量的研究人员，但也足够小，可以让个人获得关于他们工作的重要反馈，并发展指导和专业网络。这个项目资助的研究生在两方面都受益。首先，他们所做的工作将会受到主要方法学家和统计学家的批评。除资深学者出席会议外，其他几位学者也将作为讨论者出席会议。这些资深学者将包括来自其他大学的嘉宾以及爱荷华州立大学统计学系的成员，这将鼓励跨学科的工作。从这些学者那里获得对他们的研究海报的反馈将大大提高他们的工作质量。其次，研究生与教师建立的联系有可能产生持久的影响。学生们将被分配一个特定的导师，这种个性化的关系有望在这次会议之后持续下去。这些人际关系可以对一个人的学业产生持久的影响。研究生在SLAMM的参与对他们的教育成功有明显的影响。许多学生将提出论文相关的研究和反馈将改善他们的教育经验。此外，许多研究生将来自代表性不足的群体，这些群体传统上不参加这类会议。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Saint Louis Area Methods Meeting (SLAMM) provides a unique opportunity for participants. It is large enough to attract high quality researchers, but small enough for individuals to get important feedback on their work and develop mentoring and professional networks. The graduate students funded by this project stand to benefit in both ways. First, the work that they present will get critical comments from leading methodologists and statisticians. In addition to the senior scholars presenting, several others will attend the conference as discussants. Theses senior scholars will include guests from other universities as well as members of the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, which will encourage interdisciplinary work. Getting feedback on their research posters from these scholars will significantly improve the quality of their work. Second, the connections the graduate students make with the faculty have the potential to have long lasting effects. Students will be assigned a specific mentor and the individualized relationship will hopefully last beyond this meeting. These networking connections can have lasting effects on a person's scholarship.The participation of the graduate students at SLAMM has clear implications for their educational success. Many of the students will be presenting dissertation related research and the feedback will improve their education experiences. In addition, the many of graduate students will be from underrepresented groups, which have traditionally not participated in these types of meetings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.