US-Mexico Symposium on Complex Fluids; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Summer 2003

这项美国-墨西哥奖将支持2003年8月24日至29日在墨西哥巴亚尔塔港举行的复杂流体研讨会和更大的统计物理学会议。会议由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的Phillip Pincus博士、圣路易斯·波托西自治大学物理研究所的Magdaleno Medina-Noyola博士和Jaime Ruiz Garcia博士共同组织。复杂流体领域是高度跨学科的，依赖于几个学科的见解，如物理、生物、化学和工程。在国际范围内，它已成为一个主要的应用领域，并与化学和制药工业、生物医学工程以及使用软物质组件的新兴纳米电子和光子学努力越来越相关。此外，仪器和计算算法的相应发展是至关重要的。美国和墨西哥在复杂流体方面都有积极的计划。这次研讨会将提高该领域的挑战和机遇的知名度，并加强美国和墨西哥的具体合作。材料研究司和国际科学和工程办公室正在为支持这项活动作出贡献。

0308766PincusThis U.S.-Mexico award will support a Symposium on Complex Fluids to be held in conjunction with a larger conference on statistical physics in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, August 24-29, 2003. The meeting has been organized by Dr. Phillip Pincus, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, together with Dr. Magdaleno Medina-Noyola and Dr. Jaime Ruiz Garcia, both of the Institute of Physics of the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis de Potosi. The complex fluids field is highly interdisciplinary, relying on insights from several disciplines, such as physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering. On the international scale, it has become a major area for applications and is of increased relevance to the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, biomedical engineering, and newly emerging nano-electronics and photonics efforts that use soft matter components. Furthermore the corresponding development of instrumentation and computational algorithms is vital. Both the United States and Mexico have active program in complex fluids. This symposium will provide increased visibility for the challenges and opportunities in the field as well as enhancing specific US-Mexico cooperation. The Division of Materials Research and the Office of International Science and Engineering are contributing to the support of this activity.