More and more funding agencies are focusing on tightly coupled multidisciplinary research that breaks down the typical silos between disciplines and even within research groups. These tightly coupled teams can tackle grand challenges that are far more impactful than the participants could accomplish on their own. But with these new many-domain research contexts come challenges in terms, metrics, significance, worldview, and many other assumptions we all use on any given day. This workshop will use the emerging concept of convergence research to explore what multidisciplinary research means, what sponsor agencies are looking for, and how to structure appropriate scopes of work and outcomes to lead to a believable and compelling proposal.
[For researchers moving into larger multidisciplinary contexts, but useful to all]
