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

本提案为有机非线性光学主题的国际会议寻求部分资金，会议总部在瑞士达沃斯。为支持美国演讲者和学生，要求提供旅费。我们将采用的策略是为学术演讲者和他们的一名学生提供捆绑支持。会议的目的是汇集顶尖的研究人员-他们的专业知识跨越材料设计，材料表征，器件制造和集成器件架构-到一个小镇的囚禁环境中讨论和评估该领域的进展。这次即将召开的会议是由之前的5次nsf支持的会议推动的这些会议于1992年夏天在华盛顿的普尔曼举行；1994年冬天在法国Val Thorens拍摄（ICONO’1）；1995年夏天在日本草津拍摄（ICONO’4）。这次拟议的会议将是每18个月举行一次的系列会议中的第六次会议。ICONO'1、ICONO'2、ICONO'3和ICONO'4的满员出席证明了对这样一个会议的需求。我们的策略是在那些有机非线性光学研究活跃的国家举办这次会议。在ICONO'1会议上，美国和其他非欧洲国家的与会者有机会了解到通常在美国会议上没有代表的大量欧洲研究活动。同样，在ICONO'2上，环太平洋地区的研究也得到了展示。ICONO’3虽然在美国举行，但大多数外国科学家参加了会议。ICONO’4让美国的参会者们有机会亲眼看到在日本光子学谷建立的一所新大学。nsf资助的学生参加了所有四次会议。这次会议的目的是将这组国际上杰出的研究人员聚集到一个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所做的努力。

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.