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What can the Isaac Newton Institute provide to support collaboration?. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Director: david.wallace@newton.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 335980 (& 982) Deputy Director: ben.mestel@newton.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 330532. EPSRC Themes meeting, 25 March 2009.
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What can the Isaac Newton Institute provide to support collaboration? Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Director: david.wallace@newton.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 335980 (& 982) Deputy Director: ben.mestel@newton.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 330532 EPSRC Themes meeting, 25 March 2009
Isaac Newton Institute • UK national and international visitor research institute, based in Cambridge. • Runs 4 – 6 selected advanced research programmes annually in the mathematical sciences with applications over a wide range of science and technology. • Attracts leading mathematical scientists from the UK and overseas to interact over an extended period. • Excellent research environment, experienced and committed staff. • Interdisciplinarity and collaboration key part of mission.
How does it work? • Programme selection: international Scientific Steering Committee • Management oversight: Management Committee • Funding: EPSRC, Cambridge University and Colleges, Leverhulme Trust and London Mathematical Society and others • International links: EPDI, ERCOM and CNRS and ICMS in Edinburgh
Financial support • New Grants: • EPSRC: £9.6M over six years from March 08 • Leverhulme £244K over 3 years • MS Research £50K • Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 £28K • Private donations, some substantial • STFC?
How INI can foster collaboration • Proposals for programmes (outline/full) • many already touch on EPSRC themes • some commissioned by Director and SSC • new proposals encouraged • Scoping meetings • Open for business • Visits to UK universities and other research institutes • Visits to INI programmes – two-day ad hoc visits by UK researchers
EPSRC THEMES • Energy • Digital economy • Nanoscience through engineering to application • Towards next-generation healthcare • Ageing - lifelong health and wellbeing • Global uncertainties - security for all in a changing world • Living with environmental change
Selection of programmes • Call for proposals, advice and guidance available from the Director • 4 - 8 referees selected with help of SSC • SSC selects programmes (accept, reject, resubmit) • SSC also stimulates programme proposals • Institute will support scoping meetings
Scoping Meeting Scoping Meeting on Multi-scale Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean 25 March - 26 March 2009 University of Reading Co-Sponsored by: NCAS, Royal Meteorological Society and the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
Open for Business 2008 • Industry day on Complex High-Dimensional Data, 19 May 2008 • Part of Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data programme • 20 external delegates from HSBC, Microsoft Research, GSK, BNP Paribas, Rolls Royce, BAE Systems, Unilever, Barclays, … • Turbulence in Fluids, 17 Nov 2008 • Part of High Reynolds Number Turbulence programme • 17 external delegates from Thales, UKAEA, TotalSim, ICTP, QinetiQ, AWE, Schlumberger, Smith Institute, ...
Visits by Director: 2006: Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Loughborough, Durham 2007: Warwick, Brunel, Edinburgh/ Heriot-Watt, Strathclyde, Glasgow, Bristol, Swansea, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, RAL, Open University, Newcastle 2008: Bath, Reading, Exeter/ Met Office, Plymouth, Leicester, Kent, Sussex, Southampton, Portsmouth, Surrey + HoDoMS, BMC, ICMS, Annual Particle Theory Meeting Durham: IAS Princeton, IHES Bures, IHP, Fields Institute, MSRI Berkeley, KITP Santa Barbara 2009: BAMC (Nottingham), Reading + National University of Singapore, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University, Tsinghua University, Peking University and the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Visits by Deputy Director: < 2009: ERCOM (Trieste); BMC, BAMC, MS Research, Schlumberger Research 2009: BMC/IMS (Galway), York, St Andrews, UEA + EPSRC Invitations welcome!
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