PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE AND ABSTRACTS
FLAGSHIP FOR
MATHEMATICAL CONNECTIONS WORKSHOP
Tuesday May 2, 2006, 8:45 am - 4:00 pm
Room 2205 New Physics Building (NPB)
University of Florida, Gainesville
Speakers from across campus will address the following questions:
- In the Mathematical Sciences, what current and/or emerging problems
should be addressed with a multidisciplinary approach?
- In the Mathematical Sciences, what has been done to address the
formation,
competitiveness, and success of large scale multidisciplinary research
teams?
- What, if anything, else needs to be done at UF and why?
The Flagship for Mathematical Connections Workshop will be a forum for
faculty discussion about a framework to bridge the mathematical sciences and their
applications.
Below is a list of questions that will be considered at the workshop.
The answers to these questions will be presented in a formal report
to Dean Sullivan.
- What is its intellectual domain ("territory")?
- How will that territory definition be a net benefit relative to the
limitations and burdens imposed by the organization?
- Who is the constituency?
- How will the constituency definition lead to persuasive net benefit
not only for the constituents but also the University?
- Who cares about the mission of the organization and why?
- Why is that important enough to the University to go to the trouble
of making it work?
- Who will do the work of actual creation? (Many more faculty are
willing to brainstorm about such projects than have the
talent to make them happen and the willingness to do the very hard
leadership work involved).
SPEAKERS
[Below is a list of confirmed speakers. This list is being
updated and is not yet complete.]
University of Florida *
Mathematical Sciences
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