The 20th IMS New Researchers Conference
Abstract
This proposal describes plans for the 20th 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 juniorresearchers working in the fields of Statistics, Biostatistics, 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 placeover three days, July 26-28, 2018, at Simon Fraser University (SFU). The conference will be held immediately preceding the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), which will take place in downtown Vancouver. Conference facilities willbe provided by SFU and housing will be provided within a short walk of the meetings. Participants will be statisticians and biostatisticians who have received their Ph.D. within the past five years or are expecting to receive their degree within the same year. The conference eagerly seeks out participation from underrepresented 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 othersenior researchers will take part in panel discussions on (i) publishing, (ii) finding collaborators in the biological sciences, (iii) bio data science for new researchers, (iv) mentoring, and (v) funding. This conference series is explicitly aimed at training the future leaders and workers in statistics, probability, and machine learning including methodologies that are of great interest to the Navy, especially the Mathematical Data Science Program of ONR. The participants willbe 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 biostatistics. 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 advantage 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 04, 2018
- Source ID
- N000141812758
Entities
People
- Liangliang Wang
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Simon Fraser University
- United States Navy