Conference: Symposium on Multiphase Flow, Microstructured Media, Diffusion and Biological Transport at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Fine Particle Society

Nitsche, l.c., Nitsche， J.M.伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校在第26届精细粒子学会年会（芝加哥，1995年8月22-25日）上，NSF被提议帮助支持一个关于多相流、微结构介质、扩散和生物传输的研讨会。除了提供一个论坛来展示运输现象的最新进展外，研讨会还有两个主要目标。首先，该项目经过精心设计，将流体力学和传输现象的研究人员与孔隙和表面扩散、微观结构介质（液晶、沸石、膜等）和细胞生物学（间隙连接通道、胞外融合孔等）领域的专家聚集在一起。这种融合将促进跨学科的接触到一个非常广泛和全面的程度。其次，研讨会将成为流体力学/流体-颗粒系统研究人员与细颗粒学会规模可观的工业团体接触的焦点，代表纳米颗粒和磁颗粒技术，颗粒表征和分离，过滤，粉末技术，洁净室技术和制药。研讨会的新特点包括(1)资助研究生参与和专门用于研究生研究的海报会议；（ii）圆桌讨论，以确定传输和生物学之间以及传输和微观结构材料之间的界面上的关键开放问题。专题讨论会和圆桌讨论的结果将在《微粒与加工科学与技术》杂志的专刊上传播。

ABSTRACT CTS-9525791 Nitsche, L.C., Nitsche, J.M. University of Illinois Chicage It is proposed for the NSF to help support a Symposium on Multiphase Flow, Microstructure Media, Diffusion and Biological Transport being organized for the 26th Annual Meeting of the Fine Particle Society (Chicago, 22-25 August 1995). Beyond furnishing a forum for exposition of the most recent advances in transport phenomena, the Symposium has two key objectives. First, the program has been carefully designed to bring researchers in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena together with specialists in the fields of pore and surface diffusion, microstructure media (liquid crystals, zeolites, membranes, etc.) and cell biology (gap junction channels, exocytotic fusion pores, etc.). This amalgamation will promote interdisciplinary contact to an uncommonly broad and comprehensive extent. Second, the Symposium will serve as a focal point for contact between researchers in fluid mechanics/fluid-particle systems and the sizable industrial constituency of the Fine Particle Society, representing nanoparticle and magneto-particle technology, particle characterization and separation, filtration, powder technology, clean room technology, and pharmaceuticals. Novel features of the Symposium include (I) subsidized graduate student participation and a poster session dedicated to graduate research; and (ii) a round-table discussion for the identification of key open problems at the interface between transport and biology, and between transport and microstructure materials. Results of the Symposium and the round-table discussion will be disseminated in a dedicated issue of the journal Particulate and Processing Science and Technology.