15th IMS New Researchers Conference

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案描述了第15届IMS新研究人员会议的计划，该会议是由数理统计研究所(IMS)主办的一年一度的会议。这次会议是由在统计和概率领域工作的初级研究人员组织并为他们举办的。会议的主要目标是为新的研究人员之间的互动提供一个亟需的平台。拟议的会议将于2013年8月1日至3日在蒙特利尔的数学研究中心(CRM)举行，为期三天。这次会议将在联合统计会议之前举行，联合统计会议将在蒙特利尔市中心举行。会议设施将由蒙特利尔大学提供，住房将在蒙特利尔大学校园内提供。参与者将是在过去五年内获得博士学位或预期在同一年内获得学位的统计学家和概率学家。大会大力鼓励代表人数不足的群体参加，历来吸引了很高比例的妇女(去年超过50%的与会者是妇女)。每位参与者将发表一次简短的聚光灯演讲和一份更详细的海报。主题将涵盖统计和概率的各个领域，从理论和方法到应用。特别是与健康和环境科学相关的统计方法，如生物医学统计学、医学成像学、神经科学、癌症数据分析、环境统计学、流行病学、计算统计学、生物信息学等。高级讲者将在全体会议上发表演讲，寻求不同学科的灵感和概述，其他高级研究人员将参加四个讨论小组(教学、指导、出版和资助)，讨论对年轻人开始学术/研究生涯至关重要的主题。这一系列会议的明确目标是培养我们公司未来的领导者和工作者。参与者将能够了解其他处于类似职业阶段的人正在研究什么，这有助于拓宽他们对当前统计和概率趋势的看法。在帮助建立新的研究人员网络方面，它为未来的合作和非正式的思想和知识交流奠定了基础。这次会议的特点是由初级研究人员为初级研究人员组织，以更好地满足他们自己的需求。作为副产品，这也让组委会成员在主办会议的许多方面获得了经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes plans for the 15th IMS New Researchers Conference, an annual confer- ence organized under the auspices of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The meeting is organized by and held for junior researchers working in the fields of Statistics and Probability. The primary objective of the conference is to provide a much needed platform for interaction among new researchers. The proposed conference will take place over three days, August 1-3, 2013, at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM) in Montreal. The conference will be held immediately preceding the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), which will take place in downtown Montreal. Conference facilities will be provided by CRM and housing will be provided on the campus of Universite de Montreal. Participants will be statisticians and probabilists who have received their Ph.D. within the past ve years or are expecting to receive their degree within the same year. The conference strongly encourages participation from under-represented groups and has historically attracted a very high proportion of women (more than 50% of the participants were women last year). Each participant will present a short spotlight talk and a more detailed poster. Topics will cover a variety of areas in statistics and probability, from theory and methods to applications. In particular, statistical methodology relevant to the health and environmental sciences are covered, such as biomedical statistics, medical imaging, neuroscience, cancer data analysis, environmental statistics, epidemiology, computational statistics, bioinformatics, etc. Senior speakers will give plenary talks for inspiration and overview of various disciplines, and other senior researchers will take part in four discussion panels (teaching, mentoring, publishing and funding) covering topics of importance for young people embarking on an academic/research career. This conference series is explicitly aimed at training the future leaders and workers of our profesion. The participants will be able to learn what other people at similar stages of their career are researching which is useful in broadening their views on the current trends in statistics and probability. In helping to create networks of new researchers, it lays the groundwork for future collaboration and the informal exchange of ideas and knowledge. This conference has the speciality of being organized by junior researchers for junior researchers, so as to better address their own needs. As a byproduct, this also gives the members of the organizing committee experience in the many aspects of hosting a conference.