The 8th Workshop on Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

第八届生物统计学和生物信息学研讨会将于2020年5月8日至10日在亚特兰大佐治亚州立大学校园举行。讲习班的目标是反映生物统计学和生物信息学的最新进展以及这些研究领域的新挑战。邀请的演讲者包括知名专家和有前途的年轻研究人员。研究生和博士后将通过制作海报展示获得宝贵的研究经验。ASA乔治亚分会最佳学生海报奖将在研讨会颁奖典礼上评选出4 - 5个奖项并公布。此外，工作坊期间还将开设“贝叶斯自适应设计的学习与实现”的短期课程。研讨会将鼓励研究生和初级研究人员作为海报演讲者或参与者。特别是，会议组织者将邀请大量的早期职业和代表性不足的研究人员参加研讨会。研讨会将集中讨论高维和大数据分析的前沿、因果推理的最新进展、功能数据分析的新发展、功能磁共振成像数据分析的新前沿，并为合作、讨论和传播新思想创造机会。研讨会将为不同大学在生物统计学和生物信息学研究方面的密切合作建立一个良好的平台。会议组织者将联系亚特兰大地区历史悠久的黑人大学的相关部门，邀请代表性不足的成员参加研讨会，并鼓励他们通过该奖项申请经济支持。这项资助提供的旅行支持特别适用于初级研究人员和研究生。关于研讨会的更多信息可以在https://math.gsu.edu/yichuan/2020Workshop/index.html.This上找到。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，认为值得支持。

The 8th Workshop on Biostatistics and Bioinformatics will be held on the campus of Georgia State University, Atlanta, May 8-10, 2020. The goal of the workshop is to reflect recent advances in biostatistics and bioinformatics and the new challenges in these research areas. The invited speakers include renowned experts and promising young researchers. Graduate students and postdocs will gain valuable research experience by making poster presentations. Four to five Best Student Poster Awards of the ASA Georgia Chapter will be selected and announced during the award ceremony of the workshop. In addition, a short course "Learning and Implementing Bayesian Adaptive Designs" will be provided during the workshop. The workshop will encourage graduate students and junior researchers as poster speakers or participants. In particular, the conference organizers will invite a large number of early-career and underrepresented researchers to participate in the workshop. The workshop will focus on frontiers of high-dimensional and big data analyses, recent advances in causal inference, new developments in functional data analysis, new frontiers in fMRI data analysis, and generate opportunities for collaboration, discussion and dissemination of new ideas. The workshop will establish an excellent platform for close collaboration between different universities in the research of biostatistics and bioinformatics. The conference organizers will contact appropriate departments of historically black universities in the Metro Atlanta area, invite underrepresented members to participate in the workshop, and encourage them to apply for financial support through this award. The travel supports provided by this grant are particularly for junior researchers and graduate students. More information about the workshop can be found at https://math.gsu.edu/yichuan/2020Workshop/index.html.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.