Banff International Research Station

班夫国际研究站

• 批准号: 245746-2010
• 负责人: Ghoussoub, Nassif
• 金额: $ 49.08万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Major Resources Support Program - Infrastructure
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=570619
• 关键词: Banff; International; Research; Station

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 applications. Its programs span almost every aspect of pure, applied, computational and industrial mathematics, statistics, computer science, but also mathematical physics, biology, engineering, economics, finance, psychology and scientific writing. 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: NSERC, the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Alberta Innovation, 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. The extraordinary response to the opportunities at BIRS leads to extremely high quality competitions with almost 150 proposed activities competing for the 48 available weeks. Besides the 5-day workshops and "Research-in-Teams" programs, BIRS hosted NSF's Focused Research Groups, Canada's Collaborative Research Teams, Department Chairs meetings and other leadership retreats, gatherings for Women in Mathematics, summer schools in emerging areas, students modeling camps, training sessions for Math Olympiads teams, industrial forums, ``ateliers'' in scientific writing, as well as Bridges conferences for Mathematics, Music and Arts. BIRS has led the way in hosting workshops that address science and education issues for aboriginal people. BIRS assumes scientific leadership in moments of crisis (e.g., epidemiological issues of SARS and technological challenges of security) and reacts pro-actively to scientific opportunities and challenges (quantum computing, genomics and fuel cells). BIRS provides cost-effective access to collaborative research: The savings incurred by securing dedicated space for long term use, by achieving a substantial economy of scale, and the advantages obtained by pooling the resources of several organizations, the province of Alberta, and three federal governments, allow BIRS to greatly multiply the opportunities for researchers participating in international collaborative research.

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密集而持久的互动的必要性。 BIRS 是一个独特的基础设施，为数学科学及其应用领域的思想、知识和方法的交流提供了一个创造性的环境。其课程几乎涵盖纯数学、应用数学、计算和工业数学、统计学、计算机科学的各个方面，还包括数学物理、生物学、工程学、经济学、金融学、心理学和科学写作。 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一次的研讨会，每个研讨会都有 42 名研究人员，其学科领域以深入而新颖的方式使用数学、计算机科学和统计学。每年有48个这样的研讨会。此外，该站还接待由两到四名研究人员组成的团队，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。该站的环境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以及促进大学与行业的互动。每年，该站都会接待来自 30 多个国家 400 个机构的 2000 多名研究人员，他们参与 60 多个不同的项目。 BIRS 代表了北美科学合作的新发展水平，因为它首次将 NSERC、美国国家科学基金会 (NSF)、阿尔伯塔创新局和墨西哥国家科学技术委员会 (CONACYT) 联合起来如此规模的项目，为北美教师和学生提供了令人兴奋的新机会，让他们有机会接触所有数学学科的最高水平的国际同行。 BIRS 对机会的非凡反应导致了极高质量的竞赛，在 48 周的可用时间内竞争了近 150 项拟议活动。 除了为期 5 天的研讨会和“团队研究”项目外，BIRS 还主办了 NSF 重点研究小组、加拿大合作研究小组、系主任会议和其他领导力务虚会、数学界女性聚会、新兴领域暑期学校、学生建模活动训练营、数学奥林匹克团队培训课程、工业论坛、科学写作“工作室”以及数学、音乐桥梁会议和艺术。 BIRS 在举办研讨会方面发挥了带头作用，为原住民解决科学和教育问题。 BIRS 在危机时刻（例如 SARS 的流行病学问题和安全技术挑战）发挥科学领导作用，并积极应对科学机遇和挑战（量子计算、基因组学和燃料电池）。 BIRS 提供了具有成本效益的合作研究途径：通过确保长期使用的专用空间、实现可观的规模经济以及通过汇集多个组织、阿尔伯塔省和三个联邦机构的资源而获得的优势，从而节省了成本。政府，允许 BIRS 大大增加研究人员参与国际合作研究的机会。