Southeastern Europe, USA, Japan, and European Community Workshop on Research and Education

该提案寻求NSF支持来自美国的12名控制和信号处理研究人员和教师参加巴尔干/美国/欧共体/日本关于控制和信号处理方面的研究和教育的联合研讨会。类似的提案已经提交给欧共体和日本，以支持这些社区的成员参加。预计将有大约36名来自巴尔干地区的与会者。有一个由12名美国人组成的代表团参加这样的研讨会，其智力价值在于有机会向其他参与者学习，也有机会教授他们。届时将有许多在各自专业领域表现突出的与会者。由于最近巴尔干地区的动乱，他们的许多优秀的研究人员都与其他研究界隔绝了。这将是一个机会，让我们了解他们的工作，让他们赶上我们正在进行的工作。首先，巴尔干国家过去曾是许多杰出研究人员的来源地。研讨会将有助于将巴尔干地区的年轻研究人员和学生带入更广泛的国际研究界。第二，会议本身将有助于促进与会者、其机构和国家之间的进一步合作。最后，这种会议通常有助于各国人民之间更广泛的了解。

Project SummaryThe proposal seeks NSF support for twelve controls and signal processing researchersand teachers from the U.S.A. to attend a joint Balkan/USA/EC/Japan workshop onresearch and education in control and signal processing. Similar proposals have beensubmitted to the EC and Japan to support attendance by members of those communities.Approximately three-dozen attendees from the Balkans are expected.The intellectual merit of having a delegation of twelve Americans participate in such aworkshop is in the opportunities to learn from the other participants and in theopportunities to teach them. There will be many attendees who are outstanding in theirspecialties. Because of the recent troubles in the Balkans, many of their excellentresearchers have been isolated from the rest of the research community. This will be anopportunity for us to learn of their work and for them to catch up with what we have beendoing.The broader impacts of such a joint workshop are large. First, the Balkan countries havebeen a source of many outstanding researchers in the past. The workshop will help bringyounger researchers and students from the Balkans into the broader international researchcommunity. Second, the meeting itself will help foster further collaboration between theparticipants, their institutions, and their countries. Lastly, such meetings generallycontribute to broader understanding among people and nations.