Support for Graduate Students Attending the Gordon Research Conference on Synthetic Membranes, July 9-13, 1990

膜科学和分离是最近阿蒙森报告强调的两个领域，在化学工程研究中值得特别关注。自1974年以来，戈登会议每隔一年举行一次，其目标是将在膜科学和技术前沿工作的研究人员聚集在一起，为期一周，以便他们可以展示最新的研究成果，并讨论这些发现对膜在分离方法中使用的影响。本着戈登会议的精神，我们组织了1990年合成膜会议，以便有足够的时间对每篇论文进行积极的讨论。本次会议将吸引来自工程、化学和物理领域的与会者，讨论膜科学与技术的最新研究进展。重要的是，我们让大量的研究生参加，以便1)未来的膜技术领导者能够接触到该领域的开创性工作；2)会议受益于年轻研究人员的新投入；3)鼓励膜科学和分离领域的学生从事研究工作，并可能成为教师。

Membrane science and separations are two areas highlighted recently by the Amundson report as worthy of special attention in chemical engineering research. The goal of this Gordon Conference, which has been held every other year since 1974, is to bring together researchers working at the leading edge of membrane science and technology for one week so that they may present the most recent research findings and discuss the impact of these findings on the use of membranes in separation methods. In the spirit of Gordon Conference in general, we have organized the 1990 Synthetic Membrane Conference to allow considerable time for active discussion of each paper. This Conference will draw participants from the fields of engineering, chemistry and physics for the purpose of discussing the most recent research progress in membrane science and technology. It is important that we enable a significant number of graduate students to attend so that 1) future leaders of membrane technology are exposed to pioneering work done in the field; 2) the conference benefits from the fresh input provided by younger researchers; and 3) current students in the field of membrane science and separations are stimulated toward a research career and possibly toward a faculty position.