International Conference on Organic Nonlinear Optics V to be held March 12-16, 2000 at Davos, Switzerland.

该提案寻求部分资金用于召开一次关于有机非线性光学主题的国际会议，会议总部设在瑞士达沃斯。 旅行资金被要求支持美国演讲者和学生。 我们将使用的策略，让学生参加是提供捆绑支持学术演讲者和他们的学生之一。 会议的目的是将顶尖研究人员聚集在一起-他们的专业知识涵盖材料设计，材料表征，器件制造和集成器件架构-到一个小镇的圈养环境中讨论和评估该领域的进展。 这次即将举行的会议是由5个以前的NSF支持的会议，分别在普尔曼，华盛顿在1992年夏天举行，在瓦尔托伦斯，法国在1994年冬天（ICONO '1），在草津，日本在1995年夏天（ICONO' 4）。 拟议的这次会议将是每18个月举行一次的系列会议中的第六次。 ICONO '1、ICONO' 2、ICONO '3和ICONO' 4的满员出席证明了对此类会议的需求。 战略是在那些在有机非线性光学领域活跃的国家举行这次会议。 在ICONO '1会议上，美国和其他非欧洲与会者有机会了解通常不会在美国会议上代表的大量欧洲研究活动。 同样，在ICONO '2上，展示了环太平洋地区的研究。 ICONO '3在美国举行，大多数外国科学家参加。 ICONO '4让美国参与者亲眼目睹了一所位于日本光子谷的新大学。 NSF支持的学生参加了所有四次会议。 这次会议的目的是将这一国际知名研究小组聚集在一起，鼓励讨论和互动的欧洲论坛。 这也将使美国科学家有机会评估外国在快速发展的光子学领域的努力。

This proposal seeks partial funding for an international conference on the topic of organic nonlinear optics with meeting headquarters at Davos, Switzerland. Travel funds are requested to support U.S. speakers and students. The strategy we will use to get students to attend is to offer bundled support to an academic speaker and one of their students. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together top researchers - whose expertise spans material design, material characterization, device fabrication, and integrated device architectures - to the captive setting of a small town to discuss and assess progress in the field. This upcoming conference is motivated by 5 previous NSF-supported conferences that were held in Pullman, Washington in the summer of 1992; in Val Thorens, France in the winter of 1994 (ICONO'1); in Kusatsu, Japan in the summer of 1995 (ICONO'4). This proposed meeting would be the sixth in the series of meetings that are held every 18 months. The demand for such a meeting was evidenced by full-capacity attendance at ICONO'1, ICONO'2, ICONO'3, and ICONO'4. The strategy is to hold this meeting in those countries that are active in organic nonlinear optics. At the ICONO'1 meeting, U.S. and other non-European attendees had the opportunity to learn about a large array of European research activities that are normally not represented at U.S. conferences. Similarly, at ICONO'2, Pacific Rim research was show-cased. ICONO'3, while held in the United States, was attended by a majority of foreign scientists. ICONO'4 gave U.S. participants a first-hand view of a new university that was built in photonics valley in Japan. NSF-supported students attended all four conferences. The aim of this meeting is to bring together this group of internationally distinguished researches to a forum of Europe that encourages discussion and interactions. This will also give U.S. scientists an opportunity to assess foreign efforts in the fast-growing area of Photonics.