American Chemical Society Symposium on Polymer Diffraction Methods; Orlando, FL; April 7-11, 2002

该奖项为参加2002年4月7日至1日在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行的美国化学会（ACS）全国会议“聚合物衍射方法”专题讨论会的与会者提供部分旅费支持。本次研讨会由美国化学学会聚合物部主办，由John Blackwell（俄亥俄州克利夫兰凯斯西储大学）和Kenn H. Gardner（特拉华州威尔明顿杜邦中心研究中心）担任主席。它旨在探索最新的研究进展，并在分子水平上回顾聚合物结构分析的艺术状态。届时将有整整三天的时间由36位受邀演讲者进行口头报告，另外还有一个7人参与的海报环节。研讨会将是真正的国际化，演讲者来自法国（7人）、英国（6人）、日本（2人）、西班牙（2人）、德国（1人）、加拿大（1人）、意大利（1人）、韩国（1人）和俄罗斯（1人），以及美国（914人）。除了邀请该领域的顶尖研究人员外，组织者还特意邀请了年轻科学家、仍在建立职业生涯的新教师和极有前途的博士后研究助理的发言，他们的参与对该领域研究的长期连续性至关重要。聚合物衍射技术为我们对这类重要材料的结构理解提供了基础。

This award provides partial support for travel expenses for participants in a symposium entitled "Polymer Diffraction Methods" to be held at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Orlando, FL, during the week of April 7-1, 2002. The symposium is sponsored by the Polymer Division of ACS, and is chaired by John Blackwell (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH) and Kenn H. Gardner (DuPont Central Research, Wilmington, DE.). It seeks to explore the latest research advances and to review the state of the art in structure analysis for polymers at the molecular level. There will be three full days for oral presentations by 36 invited speakers, plus a poster session with 7 contributions. The symposium will be truly international, with speakers from France (7), UK (6), Japan (2), Spain (2), Germany (1), Canada (1), Italy (1), Korea (1) and Russia (1), as well as from the USA 914). In addition to inviting the leading researchers in the field the organizers have also made deliberate efforts to include presentations by younger scientists: new faculty still establishing their careers (3) and highly promising postdoctoral research associates (7), whose participation as vital to the long-term continuity of research in the field.Polymer diffraction techniques provide the basis of much of our structural understanding of this important class of materials.