The Mathematical Sciences in 2025

Closed

December 11 - 12, 2011

Past

Additional Information

Is it a Closed Session event?

Institution Closed

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the event

Thomas Everhart
Mark L. Green
Tanya Beder
James O. Berger
Luis Caffarelli
Emmanuel J. Candes
Phillip Colella
David Eisenbud
Jun Liu
Juan M. Maldacena
John W. Morgan
Yuval Peres
Eva Tardos
Joe B. Wyatt

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:

Draft sections of the final report

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:

None

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:

January 18, 2012

Contact

Scott Weidman

sweidman@nas.edu

Location

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center

100 Academy Way

Irvine CA 92617, USA

Disclaimer

It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.

Closed

The Mathematical Sciences in 2025

September 10 - 11, 2011

Past

Additional Information

Is it a Closed Session event?

Institution Closed

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the event

Thomas Everhart
Mark Green
Margaret Wright
Peter Jones
Jun Liu
Tanya Beder
Joseph Wyatt
John Morgan
Yann LeCun
James Berger

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:

Draft report materials

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:

Tables 76-78 from the NSF’s 2006 Characteristics of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers in the Unites States

“Input from IPAM to the Mathematical Sciences in 2025 Study, September 4, 2011”
(This is on the portal labeled as “Chapter 3-Input from IPAM”)

“Input from IMA Director Fadil Santosa”
(This is on the portal labeled as “Chapter 3-Input from IPAM”)

“Computational Science”, White Paper submitted by the MPSAC Working Group, May 14, 2010
(Available at http://www.nsf.gov/attachments/118651/public/MPSAC_Computational_Science_White_Paper.pdf.)

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:

September 28, 2011

Contact

Scott Weidman

202-334-1519
sweidman@nas.edu

Location

J. Erik Jonsson Woods Hole Center

314 Quissett Avenue

Woods Hole MA 02543, USA

Disclaimer

It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.

Closed

The Mathematical Sciences in 2025

May 12 - 13, 2011

Past

Additional Information

Is it a Closed Session event?

Institution Closed

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the event

Thomas E. Everhart
Mark L. Green
Tanya Styblo Beder
James O. Berger
Luis A. Caffarelli
Emmanuel J. Candes
David Eisenbud
Peter Wilcox Jones
Ju-Lee Kim
Yann LeCun
Jun Liu
John W. Morgan
Yuval Peres
Eva Tardos
Joe B. Wyatt

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:

Information received to date
Progress on the interim report and next steps
Major points to include in the final report
Outline and writing assignments for the final report

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:

NSF/DMS Committee of Visitors reports for 2004, 2007, and 2010
Draft report of the U.K. math review (December, 2010)
Inputs collected by the Canadian NSERC review of the mathematical sciences
Four inputs received from members of the community
NSF/DMS report on Approaches to Combat Terrorism
NSF/MPS report on Data-Enabled Science
NSF/DMS report on Discovery in Complex or Massive Datasets
NSF/DMS report on Mathematics and Science
NSF/DMS "Odom" report
NSF/DMS web materials on Opportunities for the Mathematical Sciences (2000)
NSF PRISM workshop report
Report of the National Science Board Task Force on the Environment
NSF/DMS report of the Special Emphasis Panel on VIGRE
NSF/DMS report of the working group on Cryptology and Coding Theory
Report of the NSF Advisory Workshop on Research Networks
NSF report Toward a Science of Sustainability
NSF reports from the study on Impact of Proposal and Award
Management Mechanisms
2005 report from the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, "Statistical Abstract
of Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical Sciences in the United States"
Compilations of federal funding for the mathematical sciences (by Sam Rankin, AMS) for 2007-2011
"Citation Statistics" from the International Mathematical Union
European Math and Industry report
SIAM Math in Industry report
A Report on the Future of Statistics; Lindsay, Kettenring, and Siegmund
International Benchmarking of US Mathematics Research, NRC, 1997
"The Mis-Education of Mathematics Teachers", AMS Notices, March 2011
NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure reports on Data, High-Performance Computing, and Software (March 2011)
"Topical Bias in Generalist Mathematics Journals", AMS Notices, December 2010
"What is Statistics?" by Emery N. Brown and Robert E. Kass
"Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads", National Academies, 2010

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:

May 13, 2011

Contact

Scott Weidman

202-334-1519
sweidman@nas.edu

Disclaimer

It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.

Closed

The Mathematical Sciences in 2025

February 9, 2011

12:00 AM - 12:00 AM (ET)

Past

Additional Information

Is it a Closed Session event?

Institution Closed

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the event

Thomas Everhart
Mark Green
Margaret Wright
James Berger
Eva Tardos
David Eisenbud

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:

Topics to be covered by the study's science writer

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:

None

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:

August 31, 2011

Contact

Scott Weidman

202-334-1519
sweidman@nas.edu

Disclaimer

It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.

Closed

The Mathematical Sciences in 2025

January 8, 2011

12:00 AM - 12:00 AM (ET)

Past

Additional Information

Is it a Closed Session event?

Institution Closed

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the event

Thomas Everhart
Mark Green
Yuval Peres

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:

Next steps in data collection for the study

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:

None

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:

August 31, 2011

Contact

Barbara Wright

202-334-2421
bwright@nas.edu

Disclaimer

It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.

Closed

The Mathematical Sciences in 2025

December 4 - 5, 2010

Past

Additional Information

Is it a Closed Session event?

Institution Closed

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the event

Thomas E. Everhart
Mark L. Green
Tanya Styblo Beder (via telephone)
James O. Berger
Phillip Colella
Peter Jones
Ju-Lee Kim
Yann LeCun
Jun Liu
John W. Morgan
Eva Tardos
Margaret H. Wright
Joe B. Wyatt

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:

Meeting goals
Preliminary drafts for the committee’s first report
Committee's public website
Preliminary ideas of the main messages to convey in the final report
Plan for data collection
Plans for upcoming meetings

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:

Articles from the September and October 2010 issues of the AMS Notices: Mary E. Flahive and Marie A. Vitulli, "An Update: Are Women Getting All the Jobs?" (pp. 984-986) and "Statistics on Womne Mathematicians Compiled by the AMS (p. 1163).

Four additional articles from the AMS Notices, September 2010: Jack Heidel, "The Sky Is Not Falling, It's Just Shifting" (p. 943); Ellen Kirkman, "CBMS 2010 Survey of Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Programs" (pp. 997-998); Samuel M. Rankin III, "Mathematical Sciences in the FY2011 Budget" (pp. 988-991); and Allyn Jackson, "NSF Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Request" (pp. 992-996).

A 1999 paper from Phil Griffiths on “Mathematics at the turn of the millennium,” presented at the Conference “Frontiers of the Mind in the 21st Century” at the Library of Congress, Washington DC, 15 June 1999.

Data and graphics excerpted from the David I and David II reports, the Odom report, the Academies' "Challenge of Numbers" (1990) and "International Benchmarking" (1997) reports, and from the 2004 review of mathematical research in the U.K.

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:

December 16, 2010

Contact

Scott Weidman

202-334-2421
sweidman@nas.edu

Location

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center

100 Academy Way

Irvine CA 92617, USA

Disclaimer

It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.

Closed

The Mathematical Sciences in 2025

September 20 - 21, 2010

Past

Additional Information

Is it a Closed Session event?

Institution Closed

The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the event

Thomas E. Everhart
Mark L. Green
Tanya Styblo Beder
James O. Berger
Luis Caffarelli
Phillip Colella
David Eisenbud
Ju-Lee Kim
Yann LeCun
Jun Liu
Juan M. Maldacena
John W. Morgan
Yuval Peres
Eva Tardos
Margaret H. Wright
Joe B. Wyatt

The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:

Discussion of committee balance and composition.
Develop plans for the interim report.
Discuss the overall plan for the study.

The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:

Title: The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States
Authors: Debra W. Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools
Kurt M. Landgraf, President and CEO, Educational Testing Service
April, 2010

Title: Graduate Education 2020
From: Council of Graduate School’s Communicator, Jan/Feb 2006 issue

Title: Science and the Entrepreneurial University
Authors: Richard C. Atkinson and Patricia A. Pelfrey, U of CA, Berkeley
Center for Studies in Higher Education of the University of California, Berkeley

Title: Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future (executive summary)
From: Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology, National Research Council, 2007

Title: Decadal Science Strategy Surveys: Report of A Workshop
Authors: Jack D. Fellows, Rapporteur
Joseph K. Alexander, Editor
From: Space Studies Board, National Research Council

Title: Understanding the Sun and Solar System Plasmas:
Future Directions in Solar and Space Physics
From: Solar and Space Physics Survey Committee, Committee on Solar and Space Physics, Space Studies Board, National Research Council, 2004

Title: Science and Technology Priorities for the [federal] FY 2021 Budget
From: Office of Management and Budget in the White House

Title: Controlling the Quantum World: The Science of Atoms, Molecules, and Photons (excerpts)
From: Committee on AMO 2010, Board on Physics and Astronomy, National Research Council, 2007

Title: Report of the Senior Assessment Panel for the International Assessment of the U.S. Mathematical Sciences, March 1998
From: National Science Foundation.

Title: Data-Enabled Science in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
From: National Science Foundation

Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:

October 25, 2010

Contact

Scott Weidman

202-334/1519
sweidman@nas.edu

Location

Keck Center

500 5th St NW

Washington DC 20001, USA

Disclaimer

It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.

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