1136 



208 



SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION 



Student will be interchanged during the meeting as the theme of com- 

 mon interest is developed from the viewpoint of different sciences. 



The distribution of ASIs according to fields of research over the 

 1959-1981 period, presented in Table 1 . shows that the physical and 

 mathematical sciences have dominated this program to date. How- 

 ever, increased attention is now being given to research topics of in- 

 dustrial interest. U.S. scientists have actively contributed to and par- 

 ticipated in the ASI Program. Some 28 percent of the ASI Directors 

 have come from the United States, and it is estimated that about 15 

 percent of the student participants (some 15,000) have been American 

 scientists, primarily at the postdoctoral level. 



At the time of the Twentieth Anniversary Commemoration Confer- 

 ence of the NATO Science Program (1978), a review was carried out 

 on the various aspects of the program.^ The answers to a question- 



TABLE 7 Distribution of ASIs according to Fields of Research, 1959-1981 



SOURCE: NATO Science Cc 



ttee Year Book (1981). 



