Travel Support: 20th International Congress on High Speed Photography & Photonics: September 21-25, 1992, Support for Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows

本基金为参加1992年9月21日至25日在加拿大维多利亚大学举行的第20届高速摄影与光子学国际会议的研究生和博士后提供旅费支持。这是一个值得尊敬的国际会议，可追溯到20世纪50年代初，它为讨论快速发展的高速成像技术领域的进展提供了一个论坛。超短脉冲激光器的出现，皮秒和飞秒的持续时间，以及伴随而来的时间分辨检测方法的进步，使这一研究领域充满活力，得到了来自工业、政府实验室和学术界的大力投入。本次大会的国际咨询委员会对有财力参加国际大会的年轻科学家和工程师，特别是研究生和博士后水平的人数有限表示关注。为了解决这一问题，他们与美国国家科学基金会取得了联系，希望后者提供旅费支持，并以此为杠杆，向活跃在该领域的行业团体筹集相应的资金。这是一个机会，可以帮助提高业界对加强学术基础设施和为这一重要技术领域的年轻研究人员提供支持的必要性的认识。

This grant provides support for travel funds for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to attend the 20th International Congress on High Speed Photography and Photonics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, on September 21- 25, 1992. This is a venerable international conference, dating its inception to the early 1950's, which provides a forum for discussion of advances in the rapidly advancing field of high-speed imaging technologies. The advent of ultrashort pulse lasers, of picosecond and now femtosecond time duration, and concomitant advances in time-resolved methods of detection has kept this a vibrant field of study, with strong input both from industry, government laboratories, and academia. The International Advisory Committee of this Congress has expressed concern of the limited number of young scientists and engineers, particularly at the graduate student and post-doctoral level, who have the financial resources to attend the International Congress. To address this problem, they have approached the NSF to provide resources for travel support, with the intent of using this as leverage to raise matching funds from industry groups active in the field. This is an opportunity to help raise the visibility in industry of the need to strengthen the academic infrastructure and provide for young researchers in this important technology field.