摘要:Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), a private foundation that supports basic research in the physical sciences, launched Scialog (short for science and dialog) in 2010 (Wiener and Ronco, 2019). The goal of Scialog is to rapidly catalyze highly productive new collaborations between Fellows who never previously worked together to tackle interdisciplinary problems of societal importance. With input from many external scientists, RCSA identifies frontier areas of research that are poised for important advances, which are likely to be accelerated by cross-disciplinary research. Such areas then serve as themes for Scialog initiatives.