International Centre For Mathematical Sciences 2018

数学科学的研究人员需要对话，信息和鼓励或来自他人的竞争才能最有效。国际研究是在国际背景下进行的，了解最新的想法和技术至关重要。在过去的25年里，爱丁堡的国际数学科学中心（ICMS）举办了重点研究研讨会，以满足这一需求。研讨会的主题来自研究界本身，建议由同行审查和一个国际方案委员会评估。该赠款提案的主要目标是在六年内每年资助18个研究讲习班，相关的知识交流和公众参与活动，以及在ICMS成功举行会议所需的行政支持。这为来自英国各地的研究人员提供了与一小群国际专家会面的机会，以便在理解问题方面取得真实的进展。首先，它确保了ICMS的出色活动水平，使其成为其他研究会议的着名场所。因此，ICMS的总活动远远超过这笔赠款资助的活动。事实上，在过去两年中，只有35%的参与日是由目前的EPSRC赠款资助的。因此，该赠款为英国数学科学研究的基础设施做出了重要贡献，为高水平研究提供了国际公认的场所，并确保英国科学能够与国际同行合作。第二，直接资助的讲习班本身具有影响力。它们展示了英国的研究成果，并允许国际研究人员开发新的主题。鼓励提案有具体的成果-关于在其方案期间出现的对话和知识交流可能产生的结果的雄心勃勃的目标。每年的18个研讨会中有6个将是“战略性的”。他们将解决数学科学的新领域，或新的跨学科应用。以工业为重点的研讨会也属于这一主题，研究理事会提出的解决英国科学优先事项的范围界定会议和研讨会也属于这一主题。这为数学科学研究界在早期阶段参与这些领域提供了一种机制。ICMS有一名知识交流干事，确保所有讲习班都有机会确定学术界以外的潜在兴趣。ICMS在确定了这些可能性的情况下，会在研讨会中安排特别的行业会议，并有一个广泛的行业联系人名单，以帮助集中思想。ICMS的活动包括为早期职业研究人员提供培训，我们在会议上倡导多样性。由赠款资助的一些专门的知识交流和公众参与会议是培训课程，旨在让ECR深入了解如何参与外部学术界。有一些“ECR研讨会”旨在为研究人员提供早期机会，使其成为各自领域的领导者。英国在数学科学研究人员中的性别平衡记录非常差，ICMS强烈建议潜在的组织者在他们的研讨会中实现性别平衡，并为因参加ICMS活动而需要额外儿童保育的父母提供支持。ICMS与其他机构和组织合作，最著名的是剑桥的艾萨克牛顿研究所，数学科学学会和研究委员会，确保按照最近的EPSRC审查中的建议，高效、有效地满足英国数学科学研究的需求。该提案加强了ICMS的活动，并确保了英国研究的持续活力。

Researchers in the mathematical sciences need conversations, information and encouragement or competition from others to be most effective. International research is undertaken in an international context, and it is vital to be aware of the latest ideas and techniques. For the past 25 years the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh has run focussed research workshops to meet this need. The topics for the workshops come from the research community itself, and proposals are assessed by peer review and an international Programme Committee. The main objective of this grant proposal is to fund each year for six years eighteen research workshops, associated knowledge exchange and public engagement activities and the administrative support necessary for successful meetings at ICMS. This provides researchers from all over the UK with the opportunity to meet together with a small group of international experts to make real progress in understanding a problem.This funding will have two immediate impacts. First, it ensures a level of excellent activity at ICMS which makes it a prestigious venue for other research meetings. Thus the total activity at ICMS is significantly more than that funded by this grant. Indeed, over the last two years only 35% of participant days were funded by the current EPSRC grant. Thus the grant provides a critical contribution to the infrastructure of mathematical science research in the UK, providing an internationally recognised venue for high level research and ensuring that UK science is able to engage with its international counterparts. Second, the directly funded workshops themselves have impact. They showcase UK research and allow international researchers to develop new themes. Proposals are encouraged to have specific outcomes - ambitious goals for what might come out of the conversations and exchange of knowledge that arise during their programmes. Six of the eighteen workshops each year will be 'strategic'. They will address new areas of the mathematical sciences, or new cross-disciplinary applications. Industrially focussed workshops also come under this heading, as do scoping meetings and workshops addressing UK science priorities signalled by the Research Councils. This provides a mechanism for the mathematical sciences research community to engage with these areas at an early stage. ICMS has a Knowledge Exchange Officer who ensures that all the workshops have opportunities to identify potential interest outside academia. Where such possibilities are identified ICMS arranges for special industrial sessions within the workshops and there is an extensive list of industrial contacts to help focus ideas.The ICMS activity includes training for early career researchers, and we champion diversity at our meetings. Some of the dedicated Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement meetings funded by the grant are training sessions to give ECRs an insight into how to engage outside academia. There are some 'ECR workshops' designed to give an early opportunity for researchers to develop as leaders in their field. The UK has a very poor record of gender balance in mathematical science researchers and ICMS strongly advises potential organisers on gender balance within their workshops and gives support for parents who need extra childcare because of attendance at ICMS events.ICMS works with other institutes and organisations, most notably the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, the learned societies of the mathematical sciences and the Research Councils, to ensure that the needs of UK mathematical sciences research are met efficiently and effectively effectively as recommended in a recent EPSRC Review. This proposal enhances the activity at ICMS and ensures the continued vitality of research in the UK.