The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research
Public research funding agencies today are required to address proactively interdisciplinary research. “The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research: A Look Inside Public Research Funding Agencies” looks specifically at two funding agencies—the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the EU European Research Council (ERC)—and how these bodies promote interdisciplinarity, on the one hand, and how they claim to identify it, on the other. Inevitably, this gives the funding agencies some definition power over what interdisciplinary research actually is or should be. At the same time, there are organizational constraints that restrict the funding agencies’ capacity to fully embrace novel ways of interdisciplinary collaboration and investigation.
Polynomial decay for a hyperbolic–parabolic coupled system☆☆The work is supported by the US National Science Foundation grant NSF-DMS-0104096, the Grant BFM2002-03345 of the Spanish MCYT, the FANEDD of China (Project No. 200119), the EU TMR Projects “Homogenization and Multiple Scales” and “Smart Systems”, the NSF of China under grant 10371084, and the Project-sponsored by SRF for ROCS, SEM of China. The first and last authors would like to thank the Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonné at the Université de Nice, and particularly Professors Y. Brenier, D. Chenais and G. Lebeau, for hospitality during their visit. The third author also thanks Professors N. Burq, I. Mundet and V. Munõs for fruitful discussions.
