Mathematical Sciences/GIG: New Multidisciplinary Directions in Applied Mathematics Reserach & Teaching at MIT (Group Infrastructure Grant)

数学科学/GIG：应用数学研究的新的多学科方向

• 批准号: 9709607
• 负责人: Alan Edelman
• 金额: $ 43.06万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-15 至 2001-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9709607&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mathematical; Sciences; GIG; New; Multidisciplinary

PROJECT SUMMARY This award will proved seed money to build infrastructure to promote interdisciplinary collaborations and train students in the applied mathematical sciences at MIT. The theme of the activity is to set up mechanisms for substantive, direct collaborations between faculty members from different departments (Applied Mathematics and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences) on research topics of common interest. The plan is to create a research environment where important interdisciplinary problems can be addressed through a blend of analysis, numerical simulations and physical experiments. The infrastructure includes the creation of special student seminars, computer equipment designed to increase visualization and educational capabilities, support for postdoctoral fellows and students, and funding to strengthen connections of the mathematical modelling of complex systems to physical experiments. The seminar series includes an informal workshop, allowing students and group members to share ideas on current projects, as well as a series focusing on developing areas of research. The planned scientific areas extend current areas of individual faculty research to collaborations between many faculty members. Specific research topics include the dynamics of interfaces, sedimentation and pattern formation in geophysical processes, and singularity formation in general relativity. Collaborations will be facilitated and sustained by joint postdocs and students supported partially through the infrastructure grant. The diverse talents brought together in the group create the potential for a special environment for collaborative research and interdisciplinary education in mathematics and the physical sciences. Funding for this activity will be provided by the Division of Mathematical Sciences and the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities.

该奖项将提供种子资金，用于建设基础设施，以促进跨学科合作，并培养麻省理工学院应用数学科学的学生。活动的主题是建立机制，让来自不同系（应用数学和地球、大气和行星科学）的教员就共同感兴趣的研究课题进行实质性的直接合作。该计划旨在创造一个研究环境，在这里，重要的跨学科问题可以通过分析、数值模拟和物理实验的结合来解决。基础设施包括创建特殊的学生研讨会，旨在提高可视化和教育能力的计算机设备，支持博士后研究员和学生，以及加强复杂系统的数学建模与物理实验之间的联系的资金。该系列研讨会包括一个非正式的研讨会，允许学生和小组成员就当前的项目分享想法，以及一系列关注发展中的研究领域。计划的科学领域将目前单个教师研究的领域扩展到许多教师之间的合作。具体的研究课题包括界面动力学，地球物理过程中的沉积和模式形成，以及广义相对论中的奇点形成。合作将由联合博士后和学生促进和维持，部分由基础设施资助支持。不同的人才聚集在一起，为数学和物理科学的合作研究和跨学科教育创造了特殊环境的潜力。这项活动的经费将由数学科学司和MPS多学科活动办公室提供。