Conference: Theory and Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data

佛罗里达州立大学（FSU）统计学系将于2024年4月19日至21日在佛罗里达州塔拉哈西举办为期三天的“大数据时代的统计学理论与基础”会议。会议的主要目标是汇集全球统计学家和数据科学家社区，以绘制当代统计基础，理论和实践的最新技术，挑战和未来轨迹。会议的形式包括三场全体会议，六场邀请会议，展示在统计领域做出基础贡献的现任高级领导人，两场特别邀请会议，早期职业研究人员，研究生海报会议，以及一位领先专家的宴会演讲。特别邀请会议和海报会议将为早期职业研究人员和研究生提供一个独特的机会，不仅可以展示他们的研究工作，还可以在小型会议环境中与该领域的领导者进行深入的智力互动。会议的主要目标是将当今统计和科学创新者和高级领导人与新兴的年轻研究人员聚集在一起，以确定，讨论和破译现代统计和数据科学面临的这些基础问题和挑战的解决方案。为无法获得其他资金来源的初级研究人员和研究生提供支持，让他们参加这一重要而及时的统计科学基础研究人员聚会，也是保持美国机构在这一领域当前领导地位的关键。举办这样一个活动来激发和理解当前在社会媒体、经济安全、公共卫生等各个领域发挥着重要作用的领域的基础、理论和实施方面的主要挑战，是非常及时的。本次会议将与国际印度统计协会（IISA）合作，并由美国统计协会（ASA）、国家统计科学研究所（NISS）和数理统计研究所（IMS）共同主办。该奖项反映了NSF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 Department of Statistics at Florida State University (FSU) will host a three-day conference titled "Theory and Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data" in Tallahassee, Florida, from April 19 to 21, 2024. The main objective of the conference is to bring together a global community of statisticians and data scientists to chart the state-of-the-art, challenges, and the future trajectory of contemporary statistical foundations, theory, and practice. The format of the conference includes three plenary sessions, six invited sessions showcasing current senior leaders in the field who have made foundational contributions to statistics, two special invited sessions for early-career researchers, a poster session for graduate students, and a banquet talk by a leading expert. The special invited sessions and poster session will provide a unique opportunity for early-career researchers and graduate students not only to showcase their research work but also to benefit from in-depth intellectual interactions with leaders in the field in a small conference setting.The main objective of the conference is to bring together present-day statistics and science innovators and senior leaders with emerging young researchers to identify, discuss, and decipher solutions to these foundational issues and challenges faced by modern-day statistics and data science. Providing support for junior researchers and graduate students who do not have access to other sources of funding to attend this important and timely gathering of researchers working on the foundational aspects of statistical sciences is also key to maintaining the current leadership of U.S. institutions in this field. It is extremely timely to have such an event to stimulate and comprehend the major contemporary challenges in the foundation, theory, and implementation of the field that is currently playing such an important role in every sphere of social media, economic security, public health, and beyond. This conference will be in partnership with the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) and co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA), the National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS), and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The conference website is https://sites.google.com/view/theory-and-foundations-of-stat/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.