A Proposal of the Renewal of the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS)

班夫国际研究站（BIRS）成立于2003年，是一项北美倡议，旨在解决合作研究，跨学科协同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，为数学科学及其大量应用中的思想、知识和方法的交流提供了一个创造性的环境。与任何其他北美研究所不同，BIRS的主要运作模式是一系列每周研讨会，每个研讨会主持42名研究人员，这些研究人员在数学、计算机科学和统计学的学科中以深入和新颖的方式使用。每年有48个这样的讲习班。此外，该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。该站的设置也非常适合举办暑期学校和研究生夏令营，举办重点合作研究小组，促进大学与行业的互动。每年，该站接待来自30多个国家400个机构的2000多名研究人员参加60多个不同的项目。BIRS代表了北美科学合作的一个新发展水平，因为它首次汇集了：加拿大国家科学研究委员会，美国国家科学基金会（NSF），艾伯塔省政府和墨西哥国家科学技术委员会（CONACYT）在这种规模的合作伙伴关系中，为北美的教师和学生提供了新的和令人兴奋的机会，使他们能够接触到所有数学学科的最高水平的国际同行。

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 vast array of applications. 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: Canada's NSERC, the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the Alberta government, 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.