Workshop on Multidisciplinary Complex Systems Research

多学科复杂系统研究研讨会

• 批准号: 1647351
• 负责人: Kimberly Gray
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647351&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Multidisciplinary; Complex; Systems; Research

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.

该奖项将支持将于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。讲习班将汇集复杂系统互补领域的不同专家，并将在研讨会之前举行一系列每周一次的网络研讨会。这项活动的总体目标是解决与科学界有关的科学问题，并使复杂系统研究中多学科研究的可能领域浮出水面。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)认识到社区的需求、知识差距和这一领域研究进展的障碍；3)确定未来跨越学科界限并可能导致复杂系统中多学科研究的变革性研究的方向。研讨会的成果将包括编写一份报告，向广大科学界通报研讨会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、工程和社会背景下的许多过程表现出紧急集体行为，因此受到复杂系统的支配。由于在理解、预测、设计和控制复杂系统方面的挑战往往是许多领域的共同挑战，研讨会的一个中心目标是促进不同领域的思想交流，并避免许多传统科学会议的典型学科界限。讲习班的参加者将包括理论和应用方面的专家，以及从不同领域挑选的博士后研究人员和研究生。由于讲习班的跨学科性质，与会者本身将了解与他们自己相关但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最新水平、潜在问题和最有希望的方向的讨论。纳入职业生涯早期的研究人员将有助于促进将这些专业知识转移给下一代工程师、数学家和科学家。