Travel support for the IMS-ISBA international conference

IMS-ISBA 国际会议的差旅支持

• 批准号: 0419627
• 负责人: Montserrat Fuentes
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-15 至 2005-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0419627&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; support; IMS; ISBA; international

The principal investigator requested support for the Second international Joint Meeting of the IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) and ISBA (the International Society for Bayesian Analysis), to be held in Bormio, Italy on Wednesday, January 12 to Friday, January 14, 2005. A central theme of the conference will be Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and related methods and applications in the 15 years since the publication of Gelfand and Smith (1990, JASA), the paper that introduced these methods to mainstream statisticians. The requested funding is to support the travel expenses of junior statistical investigators from US institutions, i.e., persons pursuing a PhD or DrPH in statistics or a closely related field, or who have received such a degree within the five years preceding the conference. Such investigators are often doing research that is among the most novel, interesting, and important for international dissemination, yet lack the travel funds necessary to attend such a conference, since they have not yet established a publication track record sufficient to attract external travel and other funding for their work.The benefit of and need for attendance at such meetings by junior statistical researchers is particularly great, since they contribute mightily to their professional development and help ``level the playing field'' with more established senior investigators. The specific anticipated benefits from the conference are: to provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss an area in some depth, by allowing ample time for presentations on a specific subject; to motivate young researchers to conduct research in the conference's focus areas that provide ample opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration; to encourage young researchers and students to present their work, interact with senior colleagues, and make contact with their peers in a friendly, small meeting environment; to include a large portion of researchers and students from underrepresented groups among participants, and provide the opportunity for one-on-one discussions with colleagues from other institutions; to disseminate materials from the meeting as widely as possible, by posting the presentations on the ISBA web site at www.bayesian.org.

首席研究员请求支持将于 2005 年 1 月 12 日星期三至 14 日星期五在意大利博尔米奥举行的 IMS（数学统计研究所）和 ISBA（国际贝叶斯分析学会）第二次国际联席会议会议的中心主题是自Gelfand and Smith (1990, JASA)出版以来的15年里的马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗(MCMC)及相关方法和应用。向主流统计学家介绍这些方法的论文。所申请的资金用于支持来自美国机构的初级统计调查人员的旅费，即在统计学或密切相关领域攻读博士学位或博士学位的人员，或在会议召开前五年内获得此类学位的人员。这些研究人员经常进行对国际传播来说最新颖、最有趣和最重要的研究，但缺乏参加此类会议所需的旅行资金，因为他们尚未建立足以吸引外部旅行和其他会议的出版记录。初级统计研究人员参加此类会议的好处和需求尤其巨大，因为他们对自己的专业发展做出了巨大贡献，并有助于与更成熟的高级研究人员“创造公平的竞争环境”。会议的具体预期好处是：通过留出充足的时间就特定主题进行演讲，为研究人员提供深入讨论某个领域的机会；激励年轻研究人员在会议重点领域开展研究，为跨学科合作提供充足的机会； 鼓励年轻研究人员和学生在友好的小型会议环境中展示他们的工作，与资深同事互动，并与同行接触； 参与者中包括大部分来自代表性不足群体的研究人员和学生，并提供与其他机构的同事进行一对一讨论的机会；通过在 ISBA 网站 www.bayesian.org 上发布演示文稿，尽可能广泛地传播会议材料。