1997 Gordon Conference on Supramolecules and Assemblies

CTS-9713185本提案为将于1997年8月10- 15日在罗德岛新港的Salve Regina大学举行的戈登超分子和组装化学研究会议申请部分资金支持。申请的资金将主要用于支付与会者的固定费用支出，即演讲者，讨论主持人以及从事工程和应用研究的研究生和博士后。本次会议的目的是鼓励在胶体组装和超分子聚集体领域工作的科学家之间交流思想和信息。自1979年以来，该会议每两年举行一次，涵盖的领域和出席的演讲者始终代表着最活跃的研究领域，从薄膜和工程晶体的工业应用到分子识别和缔合胶体化学的基础研究。来自不同研究领域的广泛演讲者和参与者参加了今年的会议。主题包括纳米材料、结构和动力学、结构系统中的清洁化学、有组织系统中的光化学、聚合化学、大分子结构和生物分子组装。大约一半的演讲者和讨论领导者是工程师或在应用化学领域工作。其中一个会议专门由该领域的新参与者进行简短的演讲。这一周的日程安排是传统的戈登会议，上午和晚上都有会议，有足够的时间进行讨论。下午是免费的非正式讨论和会议，并计划为与会者（包括研究生和博士后研究员以及教职员工）举办两次海报会议，以展示他们最近的工作。

ABSTRACT CTS-9713185 This proposal requests funds for partial support of the Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry of Supramolecules and Assemblies to be held on August 10- 15, 1997, at Salve Regina University in Newport Rhode Island. The funds request will be used primarily to cover the fixed fee expenses for attendees, i.e. speakers, discussion leaders and graduate and postdoctoral students who work in engineering and applied research. The purpose of this conference is to encourage the transfer of ideas and information in the community of scientists who work in the fields of colloidal assemblies and supramolecular aggregates. The conference has met biennially since 1979 and the areas covered and the speakers who attend consistently represent the most active areas of research from industrial applications of thin films and engineered crystals to basic research in molecular recognition and association colloid chemistry. A broad range of speakers and participants in a variety of research areas are participating in the conference this year. Topics include, nanosized materials, structure and dynamics, clean chemistry in structured systems, photochemistry in organized systems, chemistry in aggregates, macromolecular architecture, and biomolecular assemblies. Approximately one half of the speakers and discussion leaders are either engineers or working in applied chemistry. One session is devoted to short talks by new participants in the field. The schedule for the week is that of a traditional Gordon Conference, sessions in the morning and evenings with plenty of time for discussion. The afternoons are free for informal discussion and meetings and two poster sessions are planned for attendees, including graduate students and post doctoral fellows as well as faculty members, to present their recent work.