The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

First Year at Banff International Research Station

brings to the institute a strong academic standing , excellent administrative and leadership experience, and a far-reaching international network of scientists. I am sitting in the beautiful westward-facing dining room at the Banff Centre, watching the sun set gloriously into the Rocky Mountains. Even with it all in front of me, it is still hard to grasp the reality that the mathematicians of W...

Banff International Research Station Proceedings 2006

Iskander Aliev A sharp lower bound for the Frobenius number Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849–1917) raised the following problem: given N positive integers a1, . . . , aN with gcd(a1, . . . , aN ) = 1, find the largest natural number gN = gN (a1, . . . , aN) (called the Frobenius

Habitability research priorities for the International Space Station and beyond.

Advanced technology and the desire to explore space have resulted in increasingly longer manned space missions. Long Duration Space Flights (LDSF) have provided a considerable amount of scientific research on the ability of humans to adapt and function in microgravity environments. In addition, studies conducted in analogous environments, such as winter-over expeditions in Antarctica, have comp...

International Space Station life science research funding.

Fostering innovation and discovery in biomedical research.

IN TODAY’S SCIENTIFIC ERA, MOLECULAR RESEARCH HAS PAVED the way for the development of pharmaceuticals that are improving the lives of millions of patients. The discovery of the human immunodeficiency retrovirus as the causative agent of AIDS led to the development of reverse transcriptase inhibitors such as zidovudine. Monoclonal antibodies directed against tumor necrosis factor have changed t...