Collaborative Research: Special Meetings: The MPI Workshop

合作研究：特别会议：MPI 研讨会

• 批准号: 0753050
• 负责人: Joseph Fehribach
• 金额: $ 6.27万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0753050&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Special; Meetings; MPI

This proposal is a collaborative effort amongst researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Delaware, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute to expand and strengthen the Mathematical Problems in Industry (MPI) Workshop, an annual meeting run each June in cooperation with the Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling (GSMM) Camp. The MPI Workshop is a five-day meeting which attracts leading applied mathematicians, scientists and engineers from industry, universities and national laboratories. The focus of the Workshop is a set of problems brought by contributing participants from industry. These problems span a wide range of application areas, often in fluid and solid mechanics but also in mathematical biology, data analysis, and mathematical finance, among others. Work on the problems is done in vertically integrated teams consisting of the representatives from industry, senior and junior faculty, postdocs and graduate students. The main objective of the Workshop is to provide links between mathematicians at universities and scientists and engineers from industry for the mutual benefit of both sides.The MPI Workshop has run for many years, starting at RPI in 1985, but now run at other universities as well, including the University of Delaware and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, among others. For the past four years, the educational mission of the Workshop has grown significantly with the introduction of the GSMM Camp, another NSF-supported program. This four-day meeting, held during the week preceding the Workshop, is designed to promote problem solving and scientific communication skills. At the Camp, graduate students work together in teams, with the guidance of invited faculty mentors, on interdisciplinary problems typically inspired by industrial applications. The problems span a wide range of areas of application, and are carefully selected to promote a broad set of problem-solving skills. Students from the Camp also attend the Workshop, and the combined program exposes graduate students to real-world problems of current scientific interest, and provides them with a valuable educational and career-enhancing experience outside of the traditional academic setting. The interdisciplinary program consisting of the MPI Workshop and GSMM Camp is unique amongst universities in the United States. The present collaborative proposal addresses several ways in which the program can be expanded to improve links with industry and to enhance the research and educational opportunities provided by the Workshop. This expansion involves increased participation in the Workshop amongst early-career mathematicians (upper-level graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty) and invited high-impact faculty with targeted expertise, and increased participation from new industries in emerging areas. Additional plans include dissemination of mathematical results from the Workshop at other national meeting, and seminars with industry to promote contacts for future Workshop participation. The expanded program will have a broad impact on the education and development of early-career mathematicians, and on the interdisciplinary research of participating faculty. The Workshop also promotes collaborations with industry and will have an impact on the development and analysis of new technologies in industry. The intellectual merit of the program centers around the problems considered at the Workshop. Many of these problems have led to follow up research and new mathematical results, and it is expected that this will continue to be an outcome of the expanded problem-solving experience.

该提案是伦斯勒理工学院、特拉华州大学和伍斯特理工学院的研究人员之间的合作努力，旨在扩大和加强工业数学问题（MPI）研讨会，该研讨会每年6月与研究生数学建模（GSMM）夏令营合作举行。MPI研讨会为期五天，吸引了来自工业界、大学和国家实验室的顶尖应用数学家、科学家和工程师。讲习班的重点是来自工业界的参与者提出的一系列问题。这些问题跨越了广泛的应用领域，通常在流体和固体力学，但也在数学生物学，数据分析和数学金融等。解决这些问题的工作是在垂直整合的团队中完成的，该团队由来自行业、高级和初级教师、博士后和研究生的代表组成。MPI研讨会的主要目的是为大学的数学家和工业界的科学家和工程师提供联系，以实现双方的互利。MPI研讨会已经举办了多年，从1985年在RPI开始，但现在也在其他大学举办，包括特拉华州大学和伍斯特理工学院等。在过去的四年里，讲习班的教育使命随着另一个NSF支持的项目GSMM营的引入而显著增长。这一为期四天的会议在讲习班前一周举行，旨在促进解决问题和科学交流技能。在营地，研究生在团队中一起工作，在受邀教师导师的指导下，研究通常由工业应用启发的跨学科问题。这些问题跨越了广泛的应用领域，并经过精心挑选，以促进广泛的解决问题的技能。来自营地的学生也参加研讨会，并结合计划暴露研究生当前的科学兴趣的现实世界的问题，并为他们提供了传统的学术环境之外的宝贵的教育和职业生涯增强的经验。由MPI研讨会和GSMM营组成的跨学科课程在美国的大学中是独一无二的。目前的合作建议涉及几种方式，其中该计划可以扩大，以改善与工业界的联系，并加强研讨会提供的研究和教育机会。这种扩展包括增加早期职业数学家（高级研究生，博士后和初级教师）和邀请具有针对性专业知识的高影响力教师参与研讨会，以及增加新兴领域新行业的参与。其他计划包括在其他国家会议上传播讲习班的数学成果，并与工业界举行研讨会，以促进今后参加讲习班的联系。扩大后的计划将对早期职业数学家的教育和发展以及参与教师的跨学科研究产生广泛的影响。讲习班还促进与工业界的合作，并将对工业界新技术的开发和分析产生影响。该计划的智力价值围绕着研讨会上考虑的问题。这些问题中的许多导致了后续研究和新的数学结果，预计这将继续是扩大解决问题的经验的结果。