17th IMS New Researchers Conference

 描述（由申请人提供）：本提案描述了第17届IMS新研究人员会议的计划，该会议是在数理统计研究所（IMS）主持下组织的年度会议。会议由统计和概率领域的初级研究人员组织和举行。会议的主要目的是为新研究人员提供一个急需的互动平台。拟议的会议将于2015年8月6日至8日在华盛顿大学举行，为期三天。会议将在联合统计会议（JSM）之前举行，联合统计会议将在西雅图市中心举行。会议设施将由华盛顿大学提供，住宿将在大学校园内提供。 参与者将是统计学家和概率学家，他们获得了博士学位。在过去的五年内，或预计在同一年内获得学位。会议大力鼓励代表性不足的群体参与，历来吸引了很高比例的妇女（去年50%以上的与会者是妇女）。每位与会者将提出一个简短的聚光灯谈话和更详细的海报。主题将涵盖统计和概率的各种领域，从理论和方法到应用。课程内容特别包括与健康及环境科学有关的统计方法，例如生物医学统计、医学影像、神经科学、癌症数据分析、环境统计、流行病学、计算统计、生物信息学等。资深讲者将在全体会议上发表演讲，以启发和概述各个学科，其他资深研究人员将参加四个讨论小组（教学，辅导，出版和资助）涵盖的重要议题，为年轻人开始学术/研究生涯。 该系列会议明确旨在培养我们行业未来的领导者和工人。 参与者将能够了解其他人在他们职业生涯的类似阶段正在研究什么，这有助于拓宽他们对统计和概率当前趋势的看法。在帮助建立新的研究人员网络的过程中，它为未来的合作以及思想和知识的非正式交流奠定了基础。本次会议的特点是由初级研究人员为初级研究人员组织，以便更好地解决他们自己的需求。作为一个副产品，这也给了组委会成员在主办会议的许多方面的经验。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes plans for the 17th IMS New Researchers Conference, an annual conference 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 6-8, 2015, at the University of Washington. The conference will be held immediately preceding the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), which will take place in downtown Seattle. Conference facilities will be provided by the University of Washington and housing will be provided on the campus of the University. Participants will be statisticians and probabilists who have received their Ph.D. within the past five 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 profession. 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 specialty 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.