Workshop on Multidisciplinary Complex Systems Research

多学科复杂系统研究研讨会

• 批准号: 1647351
• 负责人: Kimberly Gray
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647351&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Multidisciplinary; Complex; Systems; Research

This award will support the Multidisciplinary Complex Systems Research Workshop to be held at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia, September 12-14, 2016. The workshop will bring together a diverse group of experts in complementary areas of complex systems and will be preceded by a series of weekly webinars. The overarching goal of the activity is to address scientific issues that are relevant to the scientific community and bring to surface possible areas of opportunity for multidisciplinary research in the study of complex systems. The specific goals of the workshop include: 1) identifying the most substantive research questions that can be addressed by fundamental complex systems research; 2) recognizing community needs, knowledge gaps, and barriers to research progress in this area; 3) identifying future directions that cut across disciplinary boundaries and that are likely to lead to transformative multidisciplinary research in complex systems. The outcomes of the workshop will include the preparation of a report to inform the scientific community at large of the current status and challenges as well as future opportunities in multidisciplinary complex systems research as perceived by the participants of the workshop.The workshop is motivated by the observation that many processes in natural, engineered, and social contexts exhibit emergent collective behavior and are thus governed by complex systems. Because challenges in understanding, predicting, designing, and controlling complex systems are often common to many domains, a central objective of the workshop is to facilitate the exchange of ideas across different fields and avoid disciplinary boundaries typical of many traditional scientific meetings. The workshop participants will include experts both in theory and in applications as well as a selection of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students from various domains. Because of the cross-disciplinary nature of the workshop, the participants themselves will become aware of the latest developments in fields related to but different from their own. This environment will foster discussions on the state of the art, potential issues, and most promising directions in multidisciplinary complex systems research. The inclusion of early-career researchers will help to promote the transfer of this expertise to the next generation of engineers, mathematicians, and scientists.

该奖项将支持2016年9月12日至14日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的国家科学基金会举行的多学科复杂系统研究研讨会。该研讨会将汇集一系列复杂系统互补领域的多样化专家，并在每周一次的网络研讨会之前。该活动的总体目标是解决与科学界相关的科学问题，并在复杂系统研究中浮出水面的多学科研究可能的机会领域。研讨会的具体目标包括：1）确定基本复杂系统研究可以解决的最实质性研究问题； 2）认识到社区需求，知识差距和研究进度的障碍； 3）确定未来跨越学科边界的方向，并可能导致复杂系统中的变革性多学科研究。研讨会的结果将包括准备报告，以告知科学界的当前状态和挑战，以及在多学科复杂系统研究中所感知的多学科复杂系统研究的未来机会。研讨会的参与者所感知的。研讨会是由自然，工程环境中的许多过程和社会背景所表现出的许多过程所表现出的许多过程。由于理解，预测，设计和控制复杂系统的挑战通常在许多领域都很常见，因此研讨会的一个核心目标是促进跨不同领域的思想交流，并避免许多传统科学会议的典型纪律界限。研讨会的参与者将在理论和应用中包括专家，以及各种领域的博士后研究人员和研究生的选择。由于研讨会的跨学科性质，参与者本身将意识到与自己相关的领域的最新发展，但与他们自己不同。这种环境将在多学科复杂系统研究中促进有关最新情况，潜在问题以及最有希望的方向的讨论。包括早期研究人员的包括早期研究人员将有助于促进将这种专业知识转移给下一代工程师，数学家和科学家。