Science Research Groups

The Arctic Council is the leading intergovernmental forum promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States, Arctic indigenous communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common Arctic issues, in particular on issues of sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic. The Ottawa Declaration lists the following countries as Members of the Arctic Council: Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden and the United States. The work of the Council is primarily carried out in six Working Groups.

Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

The CLIP laboratory at Maryland is engaged in designing algorithms and building systems which allow computers to effectively and efficiently perform human language-related tasks and is part of the broader language science initiative at Maryland. The lab is a part of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), and is composed of faculty, researchers, and students spanning multiple departments.

We're located in AVW 3126. The group’s research covers most of the major areas of language research, including but not limited to speech recognition, handwriting and optical character recognition, multilingual text processing such as machine translation, and language data exploitation applications including document summarization, sense-making across structured data such as ontologies and thesauri, information retrieval, ranking and personalization, and computational social science.

Our research covers a broad range of topics in evolutionary biology including phylogenetics, biogeography, molecular evolution, and conservation. We focus on the evolution of birds using DNA, morphology, and geography. We strive to improve knowledge of biodiversity across the avian tree of life.

Information Science considers the relationships between people, places and technology, as well as the data that results from those interactions. Our interdisciplinary approach draws on social science, the humanities and computer science, allowing us not only to imagine what today’s technology makes possible, but to invent new things society can do with technology. Our graduates will have the conceptual machinery and practical skills to succeed in a future characterized by new ways of working, communicating, creating and effecting change in the world.

The Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a world leader in research and development of advanced information processing, computer and communications technologies.

A unit of the University of Southern California’s highly ranked Viterbi School of Engineering, ISI is one of the nation’s largest, most successful university-affiliated computer research institutes. The Institute attracts nearly $60 million annually for basic and applied research from federal agencies and the private sector.

Our work ranges from theoretical basic research, such as core engineering and computer science discovery, to applied research and development, such as design and modeling of innovative prototypes and devices.

The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) is a National Science Foundation funded Science and Technology Center focused on the interdisciplinary study of intelligence. This effort is a multi-institutional collaboration headquartered at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, with managing partners at Harvard University.

We aim to create a new field — the Science and Engineering of Intelligence — by bringing together computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists to work in close collaboration. This new field is dedicated to developing a computationally based understanding of human intelligence and establishing an engineering practice based on that understanding.

The mission of IDSS is to advance education and research in state-of-the-art, analytical methods in information and decision systems; statistics and data science; and the social sciences, and to apply these methods to address complex societal challenges in a diverse set of areas such as finance, energy systems, urbanization, social networks, and health.

One great thing about Berkeley is the endless supply of energy and ideas that flows through the place — always bringing changes, building on what came before. In that spirit, we’re fired up to announce the Berkeley RISELab, where we will focus intensely for five years on systems that provide Real-time Intelligence with Secure Execution.

Our mission in the RISELab is to develop technologies that enable applications to interact intelligently and securely with their environment in real time.

The BioCircuits Institute (BCI) focuses on the computational modeling of biological networks at multiple scales.

The BCI team is comprised of over 50 faculty from multiple departments and institutions, including the San Diego Center for Systems Biology, the Scripps Research Institute, the Salk Institute, the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, and the University of California San Diego.

The Center for Theory of Quantum Matter (CTQM) conducts theoretical physics research focused on macroscopic quantum matter. This research area is a focal topic that transcends traditional discipline boundaries, unifying the otherwise disparate fields of condensed matter physics; atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics; nuclear physics; high energy physics; and quantum information science.

The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy is the UK's national fusion research laboratory. Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun, can play a big part in our carbon-free energy future. Culham is one of the world's leading fusion research laboratories. Our scientists and engineers are working with partners around the globe to develop fusion as a new source of cleaner energy for tomorrow's power stations.

CLiPS (Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics) is a research center associated with the Linguistics department of the faculty of Arts of the University of Antwerp, and is the result of the fusion of the CNTS and CPL research centers.

Most of the CLiPS research is based on competitively acquired research funding. Funding agencies include the Research Foundation - Flanders, the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders, the Dutch Language Union, the European Commission and occasionally companies.

The goal of CLiPS is to produce internationally recognized top research and resources in (developmental) psycholinguistics, (corpus) linguistics, and computational linguistics, and to investigate the interdisciplinary combinations of these disciplines.

The Text Information Management and Analysis (TIMAN) group is part of the Database and Information Systems (DAIS) Lab of the Computer Science Department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We work on a wide spectrum of problems in the general area of text information management and analysis , including retrieval, organization, filtering , summarization, and mining of textual information, aiming at developing advanced text information management and analysis techniques and systems that help people make better use of text information.

The Information Retrieval and Data Science Group’s (I.R.D.S.) mission is to research and develop new methodology and open source software to analyze, ingest, process, and manage Big Data and to turn it into information. We contribute to the world’s largest and most often downloaded open source software projects, we apply tried and true techniques including content detection and analysis, crawling, deduplication, similarity, named entity recognition, construction of inverted indices, query analysis, search, relevancy and ranking, interactive query analysis, and management of large data sets. We have expertise in data collection, working with NASA, DARPA, DHS, NIH across a number of domains, Earth Science, Planetary Science, Astronomy, defense, and private industry.

The major thrust of our research program is at the interface of organic, inorganic, and biological chemistry. Many biochemical transformations, as well as important synthetic and industrial processes, are catalyzed by metals. Enjoy exploring the wide scope of our research in the bioinorganic and bioinspired catalysis fields!

The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, OKC, is named after the late outstanding theoretical physicist from Stockholm University, and is one of the most prominent research centres in Stockholm. OKC presently comprises more than 100 scientists from the Departments of Physics and Astronomy of Stockholm University (SU) and The Department of Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), to compare with some 70 scientists in september 2008 when the centre was formed. It is based at the Physics Department at SU.

IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission, is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice. These flights will provide a yearly, multi-instrument look at the behavior of the rapidly changing features of the Greenland and Antarctic ice.

Data collected during IceBridge will help scientists bridge the gap in polar observations between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) -- in orbit since 2003 -- and ICESat-2, planned for 2018. ICESat stopped collecting science data in 2009, making IceBridge critical for ensuring a continuous series of observations.

IceBridge will use airborne instruments to map Arctic and Antarctic areas once a year. IceBridge flights are conducted in March-May over Greenland and in October-November over Antarctica. Other smaller airborne surveys around the world are also part of the IceBridge campaign.

The New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is an independent research and educational institution. We study how interactions lead to patterns of behavior. Our mathematical tools transcend the boundaries of physical, biological and social sciences, as well as engineering, management, and medicine.

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere: on the Earth's surface, in the atmosphere, underwater and underground. Since the Treaty is not yet in force, the organization is called the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). It was founded in 1996, has over 260 staff from over 70 countries, and is based in Vienna. The CTBTO’s main tasks are the promotion of the Treaty and the build-up of the verification regime so that it is operational when the Treaty enters into force.