1996 Meeting on Hole Burning and Related Spectroscopies: Science and Applications to be held September 13-17, 1996 in Brainerd, Minnesota

部分资助将于1996年9月13-17日在明尼苏达州布雷纳德举行的“96烧孔及相关光谱学”（HBRS）会议。这次会议将是1987年开始的系列会议中的第五次，但也是第一次向国家科学基金会申请资助。这是研究人员利用烧孔和相关的频率和相干时域光谱来了解复杂固体中无序、电子/振动结构和各种动态过程之间的关系，以及那些利用基础科学发展先进应用概念的研究人员的主要国际聚会。会议将讨论几个重要问题。它们包括对与实际高温烧孔相关的物理学的更坚定的理解，以及设计和制造“理想”烧孔介质的更好方法，对决定玻璃在低温下性能的两能级系统的微观描述，令人信服地证明了“单一”分子的光谱和动力学性质与系综一致，并进一步证明了线窄化和单分子光谱与外场相结合可以提高我们对分子间相互作用的理解。会议主题反映了HBRS会议的跨学科和基础应用性质。会议为研究生和博士后提供了极好的学习机会。他们不仅与来自世界各地的顶尖科学家互动，还将接触到不同学科的科学，并被激发去思考基础研究的应用。这些对玻璃、聚合物和蛋白质的结构紊乱、电子结构和动力学的研究所产生的技术影响是巨大的。先进的应用，如频域和时域光存储，化学传感是显著发展的例子。＊＊＊

9527439 Small Partial support is provided to sponsor the '96 Hole-Burning and Related Spectroscopies" (HBRS) meeting to be held in Brainerd, MN during September 13-17, 1996. This conference will be the fifth in a series which began in 1987 but the first request to NSF for funding. It is the major international gathering for researchers who use hole burning and related frequency and coherent time domain spectroscopies to understand the relationships between disorder, electronic/vibrational structure and various dynamical processes in complex solids and those who use the basic science to develop advanced application concepts. The conference will address several important issues. They include a firmer understanding of the physics associated with practical high temperature hole burning and better approaches to the design and fabrication of the "ideal" hole burning medium, a microscopic description of the two-level systems which dictate the properties of glasses at low temperatures, convincing demonstration that the spectroscopic and dynamical properties of "single" molecules are consistent with those of an ensemble and further demonstration of how line-narrowing and single-molecule spectroscopies combined with external fields can improve our understanding of intermolecular interactions. The conference topics reflect the interdisciplinary and fundamental-applied nature of the HBRS meeting. The meeting provides a superb learning experience for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Not only do they interact with leading scientists from around the world, they will be exposed to science from several disciplines and are stimulated to think about the applications of basic research. %%% The technological impact that is resulting from these studies of structural disorder and electronic structure and dynamics in glasses, polymers and proteins is large. Advanced applications such as frequency and time domain optical storage, and chemical sensing are examples of sign ificant developments. ***