The Mathematical Sciences in 2025 (2013)
Chapter: Appendix B: Meeting Agendas and Other Inputs to the Study
Meeting Agendas and Other Inputs to the Study
MEETING 1 SEPTEMBER 20 AND 21, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C.
Discussion of study goals with sponsor | Sastry Pantula, National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Deborah Lockhart, NSF | |
Discussion of study goals with major professional societies | James Crowley, executive director, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) |
Tina Straley, executive director, Mathematical Association of America (MAA) | |
Ron Wasserstein, executive director, American Statistical Association (ASA) | |
Donald McClure, executive director, American Mathematical Society (AMS) | |
What changes and stresses are affecting the research enterprise? | William E. Kirwan, mathematician and chancellor of the University System of Maryland |
C. Judson King, former Berkeley provost and director of its Center for Studies in Higher Education |
Possible models for our study | Philip Bucksbaum, Stanford University, co-chair of Controlling the Quantum World: The Science of Atoms, Molecules, and Photons (2007) |
Donald Shapero, director of the National Research Council’s Board on Physics and Astronomy | |
Funding for mathematical sciences research | Sastry Pantula, NSF |
Deborah Lockhart, NSF | |
Walter Polansky, DOE | |
Wen Masters, DoD | |
Charles Toll, National Security Agency (NSA) | |
David Eisenbud, Simons Foundation | |
James Crowley, executive director, SIAM (discussing industry research) | |
| Major advances in recent years that illustrate new opportunities and future directions | James Carlson, president, Clay Mathematics Institute |
MEETING 2 DECEMBER 4 AND 5, 2010 IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
The changing university environment | Hal S. Stern, dean and professor of statistics, School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine |
The demand for mathematical science skills in biology | Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, University of California, San Diego |
The demand for mathematical science skills at the NSA | Alfred Hales, UCLA (ret.), former director of the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Center for Communications Research–La Jolla |
Recent changes for the mathematical sciences in China | S.-T. Yau, Harvard University |
The demand for mathematical science skills at DreamWorks Studios | Nafees Bin Zafar, DreamWorks |
The demand for mathematical science skills in the financial sector | James Simons, Renaissance Technologies |
The demand for mathematical science skills at Microsoft, and experience establishing a research center in Beijing | Harry Shum, Microsoft |
The demand for mathematical science skills at IBM | Brenda Dietrich, vice president for Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center |
MEETING 3 MAY 12 AND 13, 2011 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Stresses and opportunities for the mathematical sciences | Robert Fefferman, dean of physical sciences, University of Chicago |
Robert Zimmer, President, University of Chicago | |
What are major opportunities for the mathematical sciences, steps needed to realize them, and stresses affecting the profession over the coming years? | Yali Amit, University of Chicago, Statistics Department |
Peter Constantin, University of Chicago, Mathematics Department | |
Kam Tsui, University of Wisconsin, Statistics Department | |
Douglas Simpson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Statistics Department | |
Bryna Kra, Northwestern University, Mathematics Department | |
Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Department | |
Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin, Mathematics Department | |
William Cleveland, Purdue University, Statistics Department |
INPUTS FROM LEADING MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE RESEARCHERS
Between March 1 and May 2, 2011, the committee held a series of conference calls with the following leading researchers in the mathematical sciences:
Emery Brown, Massachusetts General Hospital
Ronald Coifman, Yale University
David Donoho, Stanford University
Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research
Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute
Assaf Naor, New York University
Martin Nowak, Harvard University
Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Taylor, Harvard University
The purpose of these calls was to identify important trends and opportunities for the discipline, drawing on the diverse perspectives of research frontiers, and also to discuss any concerns these experts have about the future. The calls were very helpful, and some of the observations presented contributed to Chapters 3 and 5. Insights from these conference calls helped the committee select the recent advances that it highlighted in Chapter 2, and they also contributed to the identification of trends discussed in Chapter 4.
