Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical SciencesDirector: david.wallace@newton.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 335980 (& 982)

Deputy Director: ben.mestel@newton.ac.uk +44 (0)1223 330532

What can the Isaac Newton Institute provide to support collaboration?

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

INI programmes and EPSRC themes 2009 - 2011

2009 Algebraic Lie Theory Discrete Integrable Systems

Non-Abelian FundamentalGroups in Arithmetic Geometry

The Cardiac Physiome Project

Dynamics of Discs and Planets

2010 Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences

Genome Resequencing Gyrokinetics in Plasmas

Stochastic and probabilistic approaches to climate modelling

Partial Differential Equations in Kinetic Theories

2011 Moduli Spaces Inverse Problems

Discrete Analysis

Scientific Areas of Participants Based in UK Institutions 2002-08 (including workshops)

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500

Astronomy, Astrophysics, Particle & Theoretical Physics

Biology, Biochemistry & Medical Science

Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

Computer Science

Engineering and Materials Science

Economics and Financial Mathematics

Earth Science, Geography & Ocean/Atmosphere

Industry/Commerce

Mathematics - Applied

Mathematics - General

Mathematics - Pure

Mathematics - Statistics & OR

Physics

Other

Not recorded

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 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

Scoping Meeting

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, Durham2007: 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:

Invitations welcome!

< 2009: ERCOM (Trieste); BMC, BAMC, MS Research, Schlumberger Research2009: BMC/IMS (Galway), York, St Andrews, UEA + EPSRC

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