This award provides participant support costs for the conference Design and Analysis of Experiments 2012 (DAE 2012) at the University of Georgia from October 17, 2012 to October 20, 2012. The conference features leading researchers of international repute, promising new researchers, and graduate students actively pursuing research in the area of design and analysis of experiments. Participants represent academia, industry and government, and the conference offers a forum for interaction, discussion, and exchange of ideas on novel research in this area. Special sessions and activities to facilitate mentoring of junior researchers are an important focus of the conference. Themes of DAE 2012 include computer experiments, designs in marketing and business, designs in the pharmaceutical industry, algorithms for finding efficient designs, fractional factorial designs, designs for generalized linear models, designs for nonlinear models, designs for correlated data, and design robustness. The award provides partial support for approximately 40 participants.
Design and analysis of experiments are indispensable in the scientific process. Experiments are an integral part of the discovery process in virtually all scientific disciplines and in engineering and manufacturing. Rapid developments have taken place in research on design and analysis of experiments, both in more traditional areas of application and, especially, in entirely new areas of application. This conference, DAE 2012, helps the advancement of cutting edge research in design and analysis of experiments by bringing together senior and junior researchers from academia, industry and government. DAE 2012 prepares future researchers in design and analysis of experiments through extensive mentoring activities that stimulate interactions between senior and junior participants. The conference makes significant efforts to broaden the participation of under-represented groups. Indirectly, by virtue of the fact that design and analysis of experiments play critical roles in the process of discovery and improvement in science, engineering and manufacturing, activities at the conference have an enormous impact on society. The conference website address is www.stat.uga.edu/dae2012.
Targeted conferences that bring together senior and junior researchers in a specific area of research are essential for communicating the latest research developments and for professional development of, especially, junior researchers. This award provided funds for the conference Design and Analysis of Experiments 2012 (DAE 2012), held at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, October 17-20, 2012. Experiments are an integral of the scientific process, and design and analysis of experiments are areas of statistics that focus on developing sound and efficient methods for collecting data in experiments and on methods of analysis for such data, respectively. The conference brought together around 125 participants, varying from leading researchers of international repute, promising new researchers, and graduate students actively pursuing research in the area of design and analysis of experiments. They represented academia, industry and government, and were from the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, Brazil, India, China, Taiwan, and Australia. The conference featured 30 invited talks and 40 poster presentations. Slides for many of the presentations have been made available publicly on the website of the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia. About 50 junior reserchers received one-on-one mentoring from more than 20 senior statisticians. The conference also featured 4 roundtables on topics of professional development, each led by 2 senior researchers and attended by 10-12 participants. A student poster competition was held, with awards for the three best posters. Anonymous surveys were collected at the end of the conference in order to assess strengths and weaknesses. The outcome made it clear that the conference was seen as an overwhelming success: Excellent organization with a stimulating scientific program, including exceptional attention to junior researchers.
