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

这笔赠款用于资助研究生和博士后参加1992年9月21-25日在加拿大维多利亚大学举行的第20届国际高速摄影和光子学大会。这是一个令人尊敬的国际会议，其起源可以追溯到20世纪50年代初的S，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。超短脉冲激光的出现，持续时间为皮秒和现在的飞秒，以及伴随而来的时间分辨探测方法的进步，使这一研究领域保持着一个充满活力的研究领域，得到了来自工业界、政府实验室和学术界的大力投入。本届大会国际咨询委员会对有财力参加国际大会的青年科学家和工程师人数有限表示关切，特别是研究生和博士后。为了解决这个问题，他们已经与NSF接洽，为旅行支持提供资源，目的是利用这一点作为杠杆，从活跃在该领域的行业团体那里筹集配套资金。这是一个机会，有助于提高工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可见度。

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.