Workshop on Multidisciplinary Complex Systems Research

该奖项将支持2016年9月12日至14日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿国家科学基金会举行的多学科复杂系统研究研讨会。研讨会将汇集复杂系统互补领域的不同专家小组，之前将举行一系列每周网络研讨会。该活动的总体目标是解决与科学界相关的科学问题，并为复杂系统研究中的多学科研究提供可能的机会。研讨会的具体目标包括：1)确定可以通过基础复杂系统研究解决的最实质性的研究问题；2)认识到该领域的社区需求、知识差距和研究进展的障碍；3)确定跨越学科界限的未来方向，并可能导致复杂系统中变革性的多学科研究。讲习班的成果将包括编写一份报告，向整个科学界通报讲习班参与者所认为的多学科复杂系统研究的现状和挑战以及未来的机会。研讨会的动机是观察到自然、工程和社会环境中的许多过程都表现出紧急的集体行为，因此受到复杂系统的控制。由于在理解、预测、设计和控制复杂系统方面的挑战在许多领域经常是共同的，因此研讨会的一个中心目标是促进不同领域之间的思想交流，避免许多传统科学会议的典型学科界限。研讨会的参与者将包括理论和应用领域的专家，以及来自不同领域的博士后研究人员和研究生。由于讲习班的跨学科性质，与会者自己将了解与自己有关但又不同的领域的最新发展。这种环境将促进对多学科复杂系统研究的艺术状态，潜在问题和最有希望的方向的讨论。早期职业研究人员的加入将有助于促进这种专业知识向下一代工程师、数学家和科学家的转移。

This award will support the Multidisciplinary Complex Systems Research Workshop to be held at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia, September 12-14, 2016. The workshop will bring together a diverse group of experts in complementary areas of complex systems and will be preceded by a series of weekly webinars. The overarching goal of the activity is to address scientific issues that are relevant to the scientific community and bring to surface possible areas of opportunity for multidisciplinary research in the study of complex systems. The specific goals of the workshop include: 1) identifying the most substantive research questions that can be addressed by fundamental complex systems research; 2) recognizing community needs, knowledge gaps, and barriers to research progress in this area; 3) identifying future directions that cut across disciplinary boundaries and that are likely to lead to transformative multidisciplinary research in complex systems. The outcomes of the workshop will include the preparation of a report to inform the scientific community at large of the current status and challenges as well as future opportunities in multidisciplinary complex systems research as perceived by the participants of the workshop.The workshop is motivated by the observation that many processes in natural, engineered, and social contexts exhibit emergent collective behavior and are thus governed by complex systems. Because challenges in understanding, predicting, designing, and controlling complex systems are often common to many domains, a central objective of the workshop is to facilitate the exchange of ideas across different fields and avoid disciplinary boundaries typical of many traditional scientific meetings. The workshop participants will include experts both in theory and in applications as well as a selection of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students from various domains. Because of the cross-disciplinary nature of the workshop, the participants themselves will become aware of the latest developments in fields related to but different from their own. This environment will foster discussions on the state of the art, potential issues, and most promising directions in multidisciplinary complex systems research. The inclusion of early-career researchers will help to promote the transfer of this expertise to the next generation of engineers, mathematicians, and scientists.