Banff International Research Station

班夫国际研究站

• 批准号: 245746-2010
• 负责人: Ghoussoub, Nassif
• 金额: $ 49.08万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Major Resources Support Program - Infrastructure
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=570619
• 关键词: Banff; International; Research; Station

Established in 2003, the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) is a North American initiative that addresses the imperatives of collaborative research, of cross-disciplinary synergy, and of intense and prolonged interactions between scientists. BIRS is a unique infrastructure that provides a creative environment for the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and methods within the mathematical sciences and their applications. Its programs span almost every aspect of pure, applied, computational and industrial mathematics, statistics, computer science, but also mathematical physics, biology, engineering, economics, finance, psychology and scientific writing. Unlike any other North American institute, the main mode of operation at BIRS is a series of weekly workshops, each hosting 42 researchers in disciplines in which mathematics, computer science and statistics are used in deep and novel ways. There are 48 such workshops each year. In addition, the Station hosts teams of two to four researchers for periods of two weeks to allow collaborative, distraction-free, research and/or to finish major scientific projects. The setting of the Station has also been ideal for summer schools and graduate summer camps, for hosting focused collaborative research groups, and for promoting university-industry interactions. Every year, the station hosts over 2000 researchers from 400 institutions in more than 30 countries who participate in over 60 different programs. BIRS represents a new level of development in North American scientific cooperation as it brought together for the very first time: NSERC, the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Alberta Innovation, and Mexico's National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) in a partnership of this scale, providing new and exciting opportunities for North American faculty and students giving them access to their international counterparts at the highest levels and across all mathematical disciplines. The extraordinary response to the opportunities at BIRS leads to extremely high quality competitions with almost 150 proposed activities competing for the 48 available weeks. Besides the 5-day workshops and "Research-in-Teams" programs, BIRS hosted NSF's Focused Research Groups, Canada's Collaborative Research Teams, Department Chairs meetings and other leadership retreats, gatherings for Women in Mathematics, summer schools in emerging areas, students modeling camps, training sessions for Math Olympiads teams, industrial forums, ``ateliers'' in scientific writing, as well as Bridges conferences for Mathematics, Music and Arts. BIRS has led the way in hosting workshops that address science and education issues for aboriginal people. BIRS assumes scientific leadership in moments of crisis (e.g., epidemiological issues of SARS and technological challenges of security) and reacts pro-actively to scientific opportunities and challenges (quantum computing, genomics and fuel cells). BIRS provides cost-effective access to collaborative research: The savings incurred by securing dedicated space for long term use, by achieving a substantial economy of scale, and the advantages obtained by pooling the resources of several organizations, the province of Alberta, and three federal governments, allow BIRS to greatly multiply the opportunities for researchers participating in international collaborative research.

班夫国际研究站（BIRS）成立于2003年，是一个北美倡议，旨在解决合作研究，跨学科协同作用以及科学家之间激烈和长期互动的必要性。BIRS是一个独特的基础设施，为数学科学及其应用中的思想，知识和方法的交流提供了创造性的环境。它的课程几乎涵盖了纯数学，应用数学，计算数学和工业数学，统计学，计算机科学的各个方面，还包括数学物理，生物学，工程学，经济学，金融学，心理学和科学写作。 与其他北美研究所不同，BIRS的主要运作模式是每周举办一系列研讨会，每个研讨会有42名研究人员参加，这些研究人员以深入和新颖的方式使用数学，计算机科学和统计学。每年有48个这样的讲习班。此外，空间站还接待两至四名研究人员组成的小组，为期两周，以便进行协作、不受干扰的研究和/或完成重大科学项目。空间站的设置也是暑期学校和研究生夏令营的理想选择，用于举办重点合作研究小组，并促进大学与产业的互动。每年，该站接待来自30多个国家400多个机构的2000多名研究人员，他们参加了60多个不同的项目。 BIRS代表了北美科学合作的新发展水平，因为它首次汇集了：NSERC，美国国家科学基金会（NSF），阿尔伯塔创新和墨西哥国家科学技术理事会（CONACYT）在这种规模的伙伴关系，为北美的教师和学生提供新的和令人兴奋的机会，让他们有机会接触到他们的国际同行在最高在所有数学学科中。 对BIRS机会的非凡反应导致了极高质量的竞争，近150项拟议活动竞争48周。 除了为期5天的研讨会和“团队研究”计划，BIRS主办了NSF的重点研究小组，加拿大的合作研究小组，系主任会议和其他领导务虚会，数学女性聚会，新兴领域的暑期学校，学生建模营，数学奥林匹克团队培训课程，工业论坛，科学写作中的“工作室”，以及数学、音乐和艺术的桥梁会议。BIRS率先主办了讨论土著人民科学和教育问题的讲习班。 BIRS在危机时刻承担科学领导作用（例如，我们的工作重点是应对全球性的挑战（包括SARS的流行病学问题和安全方面的技术挑战），并积极应对科学机遇和挑战（量子计算、基因组学和燃料电池）。 BIRS为合作研究提供了具有成本效益的途径：通过获得长期使用的专用空间，实现规模经济，以及汇集几个组织，阿尔伯塔省和三个联邦政府的资源所获得的优势，节省了费用，使BIRS能够大大增加参与国际合作研究的研究人员的机会。