Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 APS April Meeting
Saturday–Tuesday, April 22–25, 2006; Dallas, TX
Session C4: Public and Private Funding for International Research |
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Sponsoring Units: FIP Chair: Arthur Bienenstock, Stanford University Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A |
Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:30PM - 2:06PM |
C4.00001: Forging Partnership: CRDF in the FSU and the World Invited Speaker: The founding legislation\footnote{\textbf{Public Law 102-511} ``Freedom Support Act,'' \textit{Section 511}, \textbf{October 24, 1992}} for CRDF clearly intended the organization to combine public and private purposes, and that it could and should receive funding from both public and private sources. It also gave CRDF specific formal Purposes that included building international partnerships for supporting high-quality research, helping weapons scientists find another line of work, and helping American industry and foreign scientists to work together for mutual benefit and economic progress. CRDF was expected to ``promote and support joint research and development projects for peaceful purposes between scientists and engineers in the United States and independent states of the former Soviet Union on subjects of mutual interest.'' CRDF has operated as a private foundation funding international research collaborations through peer-reviewed competitions, making more than 2,000 awards in ten years. It has carried out this work with resources provided largely by the U.S. government – to facilitate non-proliferation, and to advance U.S. scientific, technical and human health objectives as well as U.S. foreign policy generally -- but also from private sources, to advance primarily humanitarian and educational goals. CRDF's experience melding public and private support for international scientific cooperation has yielded a unique set of procedures and programs that it seeks now to apply in new geographic arenas. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, April 22, 2006 2:06PM - 2:42PM |
C4.00002: Crossing Borders to Advance the Frontier: NSF's Role in International Outreach Invited Speaker: The globalization of today's science and engineering is unprecedented. Ideas and discoveries emerge around the world and are transmitted instantaneously. Skills and capabilities are moving to new venues. We can view this free flow of investment and intellectual capital not only as a challenge, but also as an opportunity to form partnerships that integrate our strengths with those of other cultures and economies. As a nation, we can seek additional ways to become a valued partner in the global arena. We can train scientists and engineers that are not only technically competent but also skilled in cross-disciplinary, multi-cultural collaborations. NSF is committed to building bridges across borders to pursue these goals and collaboratively advance the frontiers of science and engineering. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, April 22, 2006 2:42PM - 3:18PM |
C4.00003: The Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Invited Speaker: The Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation promotes international cooperation between scholars from abroad and specialist collegues in Germany. The foundation has built up an international network of more than 23,000 individuals in approximately 130 countries who maintain active academic, cultural, political, and economic contacts with Germany. Under various sponsorship programs new members are accepted into the network every year. At the same time contacts already established on a long term basis are matured by means of specific sponsorship. In the present talk we briefly review the history of this foundation and given an overview over its various programs. [Preview Abstract] |
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