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.

Banff International Research Station（BIRS）成立于2003年，是一项北美倡议，旨在解决协作研究，跨学科协同作用以及科学家之间紧张而长时间互动的必要性。 BIRS是一种独特的基础设施，为数学科学及其应用中的思想，知识和方法提供了一个创造性的环境。它的程序几乎涵盖了纯，应用，计算和工业数学，统计学，计算机科学的各个方面，以及数学物理学，生物学，工程，经济学，金融，心理学和科学写作。 与任何其他北美研究所不同，BIRS的主要运营方式是一系列每周一次的研讨会，每个讲习班都在42位学科中举办了42个研究人员，其中数学，计算机科学和统计数据以深刻而新颖的方式使用。每年有48个这样的研讨会。此外，该电视台在两周的时间内举办了两到四个研究人员的团队，以允许合作，无干扰，研究和/或完成重大科学项目。该站的设置也非常适合暑期学校和研究生夏令营，主持集中的合作研究小组以及促进大学 - 行业互动。每年，该电台都会在30多个参与60多个不同计划的国家中接待来自400个机构的2000多名研究人员。 BIRS是北美科学合作的新发展水平，因为它首次汇集在一起​​：NSERC，美国国家科学基金会（NSF），艾伯塔省创新和墨西哥国家科学技术委员会（CONACYT）以这种规模的合作伙伴关系，为北美学院和学生提供了新的和较高的级别的级别，为他们提供了新的级别，并在国际上提供了较高的级别和跨越的级别。 对BIRS机会的非凡反应导致了极高的竞赛，近150次拟议的活动在48周内竞争。 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数学，音乐和艺术会议。伯斯（Birs）领导着举办针对原住民科学和教育问题的研讨会。 BIRS在危机时刻（例如，SARS的流行病学问题和安全的技术挑战）在科学的机遇和挑战（量子计算，基因组学和燃料电池）上发挥反应。 BIRS为协作研究提供了具有成本效益的访问权限：通过确保长期使用，实现大量规模经济以及通过汇集几个组织，艾伯塔省和三个联邦政府的资源获得的优势而获得的储蓄，并获得了三个联邦政府，使BIRS可以大大增加参与国际协作研究的机会。