SGER: Planning for a Cross-Cutting Initiative in Computational Discovery

该计划的设计必须吸引来自理论计算机科学（TCS）社区的最优秀的研究人员，而且至关重要的是，吸引那些想法将被应用的其他科学和工程学科的最优秀的研究人员。在准备一项详细的倡议时，必须纳入所有这些领域的主要研究人员的建议和合作。为此目的，建议举办两次为期两天的规划讲习班，每次有30至40人参加。大约三分之一的参与者将被邀请为演讲者，三分之一将被邀请为讨论者，三分之一将从TCS社区中选出。这些讲习班的显著特点是其多学科性质；来自不同领域的专家将被邀请并被要求专注于计算透镜及其在解决各自领域问题中的应用。第一次研讨会暂定于2006年12月初在普林斯顿大学举行，第二次将于2007年3月中旬在加州理工学院举行。由于所涉及的科学学科的广泛性，第一次讲习班将侧重于生物和地球科学，第二次讲习班将侧重于物理和数学科学。将于2007年夏季完成一份以研讨会为基础的NSF报告。这一建议的智力价值在于开发了可行的、有前途的计算机科学和其他学科之间未来相互作用的课程。更广泛的影响将是对后续研究的影响：既直接由研讨会的参与者产生，但如果研讨会导致nsf的跨领域倡议，最终将产生更广泛的影响。

The initiative must be designed to attract the best researchers from both the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) community and, crucially, the other scientific and engineering disciplines in which the ideas are to be applied. In preparing a detailed initiative, it is essential to incorporate the advice and cooperation of leading researchers in all these fields. For this purpose it is proposed to hold two two-day planning workshops, with thirty to forty participants in each. About a third of the participants will be invited speakers, a third will beinvited discussants, and a third will be selected from the TCS community. The distinguishing feature of these workshops will be their multidisciplinary nature; experts from different areas will be invited and asked to focus on the computational lens and its use in solving problems from their field. The first workshop is tentatively planned for early December, 2006 at Princeton University, and the second for mid-March, 2007 at Caltech. Because of the wideranging nature of the scientific disciplines involved, the first workshop will focus on Biological and Earth Sciences, and the second on Physical and Mathematical Sciences. A report for the NSF based on the workshops will be completed by Summer, 2007.The intellectual merit of this proposal is the development of viable, promising courses of future interaction between CS and other disciplines. The broader impact will be that upon follow-on research: both directly by participants in the workshops, but ultimately much more widely if the workshops lead to an NSFcross-cutting initiative.