US-Federal Republic of Germany Joint Seminar on Current Developments in Polymer Science; Grossen Ledder, FRG; September 9-14, 1990

该奖项支持大约10名年轻的美国聚合物科学家与来自德意志联邦共和国的潜在合作者参加一个联合研讨会。预计将有几个行业参与者自费。这次会议是由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的戴尔·S·皮尔逊和麻省理工学院的埃德温·L·托马斯以及德国塑料研究所的约阿希姆·温多夫和汉堡大学应用和大分子化学系的汉斯·克里奇尔多夫共同组织的。研讨会将在科隆附近的一个小村庄举行，最后将在法兰克福美因茨新建的马克斯·普朗克聚合物研究所进行参观和小组讨论。这是一个重大的新设施，表明了德国政府和科学界对聚合物科学的浓厚兴趣。在这一领域以前的双边会议(三年多前，与不同的参与者)导致了一些联合研究项目、出版物和在德国和美国的休假安排。会议规模较小，特别有利于在以前没有机会见面的人之间建立密切的职业关系。研讨会的主要目标是通过一个平衡的计划解决聚合物科学的关键领域，其中包括化学、物理、材料科学和工程学的贡献。报告将大致平均分配到聚合物合成和改性、聚合物表征和聚合物理论。将特别强调两个领域：电活性聚合物的合成研究，这是一个促进了物理界和化学界之间密切合作的主题，以及更广泛但迅速扩大的聚合物理论领域。理论概念的进步，加上超级计算机可用性的增加，正在对聚合物科学家看待大分子行为的方式产生重大影响。此外，与会者将回顾以往会议中包括的几个领域的进展，如液晶聚合物、自组织系统以及聚合物界面和表面。德国在聚合物动力学和表面表征方面的研究是世界上最好的研究之一，这是因为他们拥有一流的中子和X射线散射研究设施和一些一流的人才。

This award supports the participation of approximately ten young U.S. polymer scientists in a joint workshop with potential collaborators from the Federal Republic of Germany. Several industrial participants are expected, at their own expense. The meeting was co-organized by Dale S. Pearson of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Edwin L. Thomas of MIT together with Joachim Wendorff of the German Plastics Institute, Darmstadt, and Hans Kricheldorf from the Department of Applied and Macro- molecular Chemistry, University of Hamburg. The workshop will be held in a small village near Cologne, and will conclude with a tour and panel discussion at the new Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research at Mainz, FRG. This is a major new facility which indicates the strong interest of the German government and scientific community in polymer science. Prior bilateral meetings in this field (over three years ago and with different participants) resulted in a number of joint research projects, publications and arrangements for sabbaticals in Germany and the U.S. The small size of the meeting is particularly conducive for initiating close professional relationships among people who have not had an opportunity to meet before. The primary objective of the workshop is to address critical areas of polymer science through a well balanced program that includes contributions from chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering. Presentations will be about evenly divided among polymer synthesis and modification, polymer characterization, and polymer theory. Particular emphasis will be given to two areas: synthetic research on electroactive polymers, a topic that has fostered intense collaboration between the physics and chemistry communities, and the more general but rapidly expanding area of polymer theory. Advances in theoretical concepts coupled with the increased availability of supercomputers are having a major impact on the way polymer scientists view macromolecular behavior. In addition, the participants will review progress in several areas included in previous meetings, such as liquid crystalline polymers, self-organizing systems, and polymer interfaces and surfaces. German research in polymer dynamics and surface characterization is among the best in the world due to their excellent facilities for neutron and X-ray scattering studies and some top-notch people.