New Interdisciplinary Approaches of NTU Singapore

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   New structures and policies have been introduced to encourage and foster inter- and multi-disciplinary research activity and to create critical mass. The juxtapositioning of arts and humanities alongside business, the natural sciences and engineering brings fresh perspectives and the scope for really interdisciplinary and novel research. This is especially important in interactive digital media, energy research, environmental and water technologies, risk management and maritime studies, to mention just a few exciting areas. They build on and leverage areas where NTU is at the forefront of scholarship, and encourage the Colleges and autonomous institutes to bring their expertise into new inter-disciplinary activities.
   To this end NTU has also created the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), headed by Professor K K Phua. The IAS provides support to bring leading researchers and Nobel Prizewinners to NTU and who can interact with both staff and students. Through the Lee Kong Chian bequest, we are able to invite Nobel Prizewinners to NTU. For the future, this will be developed in a more systematic way covering the whole range of the Nobel Prizes, including Economics, Literature and Peace. IAS also partners other eminent institutions including the  Physics Summer School of Les Houches, France.
   As part of the drive to encourage inter-disciplinarity, NTU has held an advanced workshop on complexity to celebrate the 80th Birthday of Professor John Holland (University of Michigan), the ‘father’ of genetic algorithms. This conference was held in partnership with the Santa Fe Institute in the USA and the Institute Para Limes in Europe. It is hoped that one outcome will be the further development of complexity studies in NTU and an ongoing partnership with Santa Fe and Para Limes.

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