Cross-Disciplinary Research Training in Mathematical Biology

数学生物学跨学科研究培训

• 批准号: 0125047
• 负责人: James Keener
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0125047&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cross; Disciplinary; Research; Training; Mathematical

The investigator and his colleagues develop aninterdisciplinary training program that would give graduatestudents substantive training in both mathematics and biology.The goal is to produce students competent in both disciplines,with genuine expertise in applied mathematics and some specificarea of biology: biofluids, ecology and evolutionary biology,neuroscience, or physiology. Training is built on the SpecialInterest Group, which includes faculty members from bothmathematics and biology, students and postdocs, andindustry-based researchers where appropriate. Modern biology is increasingly mathematical andcomputational. Education and training in components of bothdisciplines is needed to prepare people for the 21st centuryworkforce, for leading-edge research, and for teaching. Thispilot project includes innovative aspects in its thematicorganization, flexible arrangement of both common andarea-specific content, interdisciplinary teaming, combination oftheoretical and experimental training, and involvement ofindustrial partners. The combination is promising for fosteringlong-term changes by growing a generation of scientists,mathematicians, and engineers who share language and skills wellenough to take up and solve key problems.

研究者和他的同事们开发了一个跨学科的培训项目，为研究生提供数学和生物学方面的实质性培训。目标是培养出在这两个学科都有能力的学生，在应用数学和生物学的某些特定领域（生物流体、生态学和进化生物学、神经科学或生理学）具有真正的专业知识。 培训是建立在特殊兴趣小组，其中包括来自数学和生物学的教师，学生和博士后，以及适当的工业研究人员。 现代生物学越来越数学化和计算化。 这两个学科的教育和培训都需要为21世纪的劳动力、前沿研究和教学做好准备。 该试点项目包括创新方面的主题组织，灵活安排共同和特定领域的内容，跨学科的团队，理论和实验培训相结合，并参与了多个合作伙伴。 这一组合有望通过培养一代科学家、数学家和工程师来促进长期变化，他们共享足够好的语言和技能来解决关键问题。