Int'l Conferanceon Reliability & Survival Analysis 2003

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目有两个主要目的：第一是组织于2003年5月21日至24日在南卡罗来纳大学哥伦比亚分校举行的可靠性和生存分析国际会议，该会议将为研究人员提供一个论坛，介绍和讨论最近、当前和未来的生存分析和可靠性研究。这两个领域在某种程度上是独立发展的，但也有很多可以相互借鉴的地方。第二个目标是积极地让生存分析和可靠性领域的高级研究生和新研究人员参与进来，并促进他们与资深研究人员的互动。本次会议对科学基础设施的主要好处是生存分析和可靠性方面的随机和统计方法的综合和进步，活跃研究者之间富有成效的互动将加强研究，以及新研究人员的参与和互动，特别是高水平的研究生，与该领域的资深研究人员。特别是，这次会议的一个潜在好处是，通过与会研究人员之间的相互作用，将开发新的随机模型和新的统计方法，这些模型和方法将适用于癌症和其他医学和公共卫生相关研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are two major aims of this project: The first is to organize an International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis to be held on May 21-24, 2003 at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, which will provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss recent, current, and future research in survival analysis and reliability. These two areas have evolved somewhat independently, but have a lot to gain from each other. The second goal is to actively involve advanced graduate students and new researchers in the survival analysis and reliability areas and facilitate their interaction with established senior researchers. The major benefits to the scientific infrastructure envisioned from this conference are the synthesis and advancement of stochastic and statistical methods in survival analysis and reliability, fruitful interaction among active investigators which will enhance research, and the involvement and interaction of new researchers, especially advanced-level graduate students, with established senior researchers in the areas. In particular, a potential benefit of this conference is that new stochastic models and new statistical methods will be developed through the interactions among participating researchers that will have applicability in cancer and in other medical and public-health related studies. Currently, twenty-two internationally-recognized and active researchers have agreed to organize or have already organized an invited session on a topic relevant to the conference with the session having three speakers with each speaker presenting a 25-minute invited talk. Six very prominent researchers in survival analysis and reliability have agreed to present plenary talks with each talk lasting 40 minutes. Several other active researchers have agreed to give invited talks, and contributed talks are either being submitted or currently being solicited Funding is requested to partially support the registration, lodging, and subsistence expenses during the conference of the 70 invited speakers, and the registration fees of 10 graduate students and 10 faculties from the University of South Carolina.