SuSTaIn - Statistics underpinning Science, Technology and Industry

我们的判断，以及最近的国际审查英国数学研究（mathematics Research），是显着的能力，在理论和数理统计是小，在英国下降。必须制止和扭转这种下降趋势。现在是时候了。SuSTaIn将成为一个中心，进行和传播一流的研究，在数理统计，并植入到学科的统计在英国。我们将培养SuSTaIn在布里斯托大学统计组的支持性环境中建立强大的数理统计能力。我们建议的主要支柱是（i）聘请一个强大的动态团队，由一名教授和四名早期到中期的职业生涯研究人员担任讲师（ii）吸引一些具有杰出潜力的博士后研究员进入滚动计划，他们可以自由锻造和发展数理统计的最新思想，（iii）启动一个全面的4年MRes/博士研究培训计划，（四）开展多项活动（包括启动一个主要的英国会议系列数理统计），以促进我们的学科愿景，并鼓励其在英国更广泛的采用。布里斯托大学致力于为这一发展提供强有力的财政和物质支持，使这一出价取得成功，并蓬勃发展的倡议，除了EPSRC/HEFCE资助的最初阶段。SuSTaIn是关于立即启动数理统计的高级研究，在英国活动中产生一个步骤的变化，并通过培养工作人员和研究生在他们的职业生涯早期帮助确保未来。布里斯托大学的统计小组在数理统计研究方面享有盛誉，并提供了一个令人兴奋和支持性的环境。卓越和环境都有助于小组在国家招聘困难的情况下成功吸引优秀的国际研究人员。新世纪的数理统计将蓬勃发展，并与小组现有的方法重点发展共生关系。SuSTaIn将接触到广泛的合作企业，利用现有的经过验证的联系，并在一个强大而多样化的大学内建立创新的新联系。它将加强联合王国全国的统计工作，并解决“数据革命”引起的全球关切。SuSTaIn将促进数学（理论方面）与现有方法论小组之间的知识交流，该小组本身已经建立了关键科学和工程领域的知识转移路线，例如生物信息学，数据融合和量子信息。

Our judgment, and that of the recent International Review of UK Mathematics Research (IRM), is that significant capability in theoretical and mathematical statistics is small and in decline in the UK. This decline needs to be halted and reversed. Now is the time.SuSTaIn will be a centre that conducts and disseminates top-rank research in mathematical statistics, and implants it into the discipline of statistics in the UK. We will nurture SuSTaIn to build a strong capability in mathematical statistics within the supportive environment of the Statistics Group at Bristol University. The main pillars of our proposal are to (i) hire a strong dynamic team consisting of a Professor, and four early- to mid-career researchers as lecturers (ii) attract a number of postdoctoral fellows of outstanding potential onto a rolling programme where they are free to forge and develop the latest ideas in mathematical statistics, (iii) initiate a comprehensive 4-year MRes/PhD research training programme, (iv) conduct numerous activities (including kick-starting a major UK conference series in mathematical statistics ) to promote our vision for the discipline, and encourage its wider adoption in the UK.Bristol University is committed to strong financial and material support for this development, to enable this bid to succeed and the initiative to flourish, beyond the initial period of EPSRC/HEFCE funding.SuSTaIn is both about immediate initiation of advanced research in mathematical statistics generating a step change in UK activity and helping to ensure the future by the nurturing of staff and graduate students early on in their career. Bristol University's Statistics Group has a well-recognized reputation for research excellence in mathematical statistics and for providing an exciting and supportive environment. Both the excellence and the environment have contributed to the Group's success in attracting outstanding international researchers in the face of national recruitment difficulties.Mathematical statistics for the new century will thrive and develop a symbiotic relationship with the existing methodological focus of the Group. SuSTaIn will reach out to a wide range of collaborative ventures, making use of existing proven links as well as forging innovative new connections within a strong and diverse University. It will strengthen UK Statistics nationally and address global concerns arising from the `data revolution'. SuSTaIn will stimulate knowledge exchange both to and from Mathematics (on the theoretical side) and plug-in to the existing methodological Group which itself has established knowledge transfer routes to key scientific and engineering areas, for example, bioinformatics, data fusion and quantum information.