MASDOC: A Centre for Doctoral Training in the Mathematical Sciences

我们建议在华威大学数学系和统计系设立CDT(MASDOC)。该中心将提供应用数学、计算、概率和统计等领域的培训，以及这些领域之间的重要接口。它们不仅是数学科学的主要领域，也是发展数学和统计方法的关键，这些方法将日益需要，以应对气候变化、能源生产、技术和医疗应用的纳米科学、材料的分子建模、生态学、流行病学和数据挖掘中的模型等应用程序带来的重大现代挑战。数学领域和应用挑战的明显重要性也提供了一个机会，让有才华的学生进入一个新颖的博士培训中心，该中心不仅培养学生使用数学科学工具，而且培养学生定量和定性研究、建模、团队合作和批判性思维的技能。设计了一个创新的研究学习小组组成部分，以培养新一代的博士，他们准备迎接新的挑战，并根据应用程序的要求开发新的数学框架，而不是简单地学习现成的方法。MASDOC的课程结构将为研究人员提供尖端工具，以开发和探索这四个研究领域之间的许多重要和新兴的协同效应。研究主题的选择将侧重于区域之间界面的问题，而华威在所有这些领域都拥有世界领先的经验。由世界一流大学的研究生培训合作伙伴项目组成的国际网络将让我们的学生体验世界上一些最具活力的研究团队，而作为回报，海外学生将花时间访问沃里克，丰富MASDOC的研究环境。

We propose a CDT (MASDOC) in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at Warwick. The Centre will provide training in the areas of Applied Mathematics, Computation, Probability and Statistics, together with the important interfaces between these areas. They are not only major areas in the mathematical sciences but are also key to developing the mathematical and statistical methodology that increasingly will be required to meet significant modern challenges arising from applications such as climate change, energy production, nano-sciences for technological and medical applications, molecular modelling of materials, models arising in ecology, epidemiology and data mining.The obvious importance of the mathematical areas and the applied challenges also offers an opportunity to recruit talented students into a novel doctoral training centre that prepares students not only with mathematical science tools but also with skills of quantitative and qualitative study, modelling, teamwork and critical thinking. An innovative Research Study Group component has been designed to prepare a new breed of PhDs who are ready to meet new challenges and develop new mathematical frameworks in response to the demands of the applications rather than simply picking up off-the-shelf methodology. The course structure of MASDOC will provide researchers with cutting-edge tools to exploit and explore the many important and emerging synergies between the four research areas. Research topics will be selected with an emphasis on problems at the interfaces between the areas, in all of which Warwick has world leading experience. An international network of graduate training partner programmes in world leading institutions will allow our students to experience some of the most vibrant research groups in the world, while in return, overseas students will spend periods visiting Warwick, enriching the MASDOC research environment.