CORE SUPPORT OF THE BOARD ON MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

该项目为数学科学委员会(BMS)提供了三年的部分核心支持，并为其应用和理论统计委员会(CATS)提供了全部核心支持，这两个小组都是国家研究理事会的委员会。BMS是美国唯一一个著名的组织，所有数学科学--核心数学、统计学、应用数学、运筹学和科学计算--的代表定期举行会议，讨论如何确保和提高该领域的智力活力。CATS可能是这个国家首屈一指的统计研究人员群体，它同样关注该领域的学术活力。BMS和CATS都通过组织研讨会和研究来积极促进这种活力，这些研讨会和研究将注意力集中在探索的成熟研究机会上，并往往有助于在数学科学与其他科学、工程和医学领域建立联系。在较小程度上，他们偶尔研究直接影响数学科学健康的政策问题。所要求的核心资金用于每年举行两次联合专家委员会和总部外协调局会议，每年举行一次该部主席座谈会，启动所有项目，持续监督所有活动，并继续审议需要总部外协调局和/或联合专家委员会注意的问题。

This project provides three years of partial core support of the Board on Mathematical Sciences (BMS) and full core support of its Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS), both groups being committees of the National Research Council. The BMS is the only prominent group in the United States wherein representatives from all the mathematical sciences---core mathematics, statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, and scientific computing---regularly meet to discuss ways to ensure and improve the intellectual vigor of the field. CATS is perhaps the premier assemblage of statistical researchers in the country, and it is similarly concerned with the intellectual vigor of its field. Both the BMS and CATS actively promote that vigor by organizing workshops and studies that focus attention on research opportunities that are ripe for exploration and, often, help to build links between the mathematical sciences and other fields of science, engineering, and medicine. To a lesser extent, they occasionally study policy issues that directly affect the health of the mathematical sciences. The requested core funding provides for two meetings each year of both CATS and BMS, an annual Department Chairs Colloquium, initiation of all projects, continuous oversight of all activities, and continuing cognizance of issues that need the attention of BMS and/or CATS.