Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute

SAMSI是一个国家研究所，将深刻影响统计和数学科学的未来，并通过它们，科学一般，通过催化创造必要的理论和方法，以应对我们这个时代的中央数据和模型驱动的科学挑战。SAMSI将侧重于统计科学、应用数学和学科科学的新综合。 为了说明这一愿景，考虑一项对现代科学和技术至关重要的活动，SAMSI将大力参与其中：复杂物理过程的数值模拟。 开发数值模型和评估它们对现实的保真度需要融合来自多个学科的知识。应用数学建立在学科理解的基础上，构建了一个过程的确定性方面的精细细节的数值表示;概率提供了概念和洞察力来描述过程的随机元素;统计学提供了将这些结构与现实世界过程的观测数据联系起来的机制。但是，尽管取得了许多针对具体情况的进展，但目前还没有一个将这些学科结合起来的通用框架，更不用说同时应用它们的正式系统了。SAMSI在这方面的努力将集中于填补这一空白，将全国各地的统计学家、数学家和建模师聚集在一起（及其他）建立模型开发和验证的框架，在一个跨越多种应用环境的高层次上。为了进行统计科学，应用数学科学和学科科学的综合，SAMSI聘请了来自学术界，工业界，国家实验室和政府--以及处于职业生涯形成阶段的年轻研究人员（博士后研究员和研究生）。每个研究项目持续6个月到一年，涉及大量的活动，从密集的跨学科工作组的研究到广泛的，充满活力的研讨会。向大学生、高中教师和教学机构的教职员工进行外联，扩大了SAMSI对国家科学人力资源基础的重要发展的影响。为了使SAMSI的成功所需的广度和深度的活动，该研究所是国家科学基金会和杜克大学，北卡罗莱纳州立大学，北卡罗来纳州教堂山大学和国家统计科学研究所的财团之间的伙伴关系。 这些合作伙伴为SAMSI的全国范围提供了一个独特的强大基础。对南部非洲小岛屿发展中国家援助团的科学投入部分来自由著名统计和农业科学家组成的国家咨询理事会。最重要的是，SAMSI将通过广泛宣传的机会，让全国的统计和数学科学界参与进来，把问题带到SAMSI，或让SAMSI关注这些问题。

SAMSI is a national institute that will deeply impact the futureof the statistical and mathematical sciences and, through them,science in general, by catalyzing creation of the theory andmethodology necessary to confront the central data- andmodel-driven scientific challenges of our time. SAMSI will focuson new syntheses of the statistical sciences, applied mathematicsand disciplinary science. To illustrate the vision, consider anactivity central to modern science and technology, and with whichSAMSI will be heavily engaged: numerical modeling of complexphysical processes. Developing numerical models and evaluatingtheir fidelity to reality requires merging knowledge frommultiple disciplines. Applied mathematics builds on disciplinaryunderstanding to construct a fine-detail numerical representationof the deterministic aspects of a process; probability providesconcepts and insight to characterize stochastic elements of theprocess; and statistics provides the mechanisms to relate theseconstructs to observational data on the real-world process. But,despite a multiplicity of context-specific advances, there iscurrently no general framework for combining these disciplines,much less a formal system for simultaneously applying them. TheSAMSI efforts in this direction will focus on filling this gap,by bringing together statisticians, mathematicians and modelersfrom across the country (and beyond) to establish frameworks formodel development and validation, at a high level that spansmultiple application contexts.To carry out this synthesis of the statistical sciences, appliedmathematical sciences and disciplinary sciences, SAMSI engagesestablished researchers - from academia, industry, nationallaboratories and government - as well as young researchers(postdoctoral fellows and graduate students) at the formativestages of their careers. Each research program lasts from 6months to one year, and involves a host of activities rangingfrom research by intensive interdisciplinary working groups tobroad, energizing workshops. Outreach to undergraduate students,high-school teachers and faculty from teaching institutionsextends SAMSI's impact on the essential development of thenational human resource base for science. To enable activities ofthe breadth and depth necessary for the success of SAMSI, theinstitute is a partnership between the National ScienceFoundation and the consortium of Duke University, North CarolinaState University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilland the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. Thesepartners provide a uniquely strong base for SAMSI's nationalscope. Scientific input to SAMSI comes, in part, from a NationalAdvisory Council composed of eminent statistical and mathematicalscientists. Most important, SAMSI will engage the entirenationwide statistical and mathematical sciences communities, bymeans of widely publicized opportunities to bring problems toSAMSI, or direct SAMSI's attention to them.