International: Joint U.S.-Germany Workshop on Polymers, July 20-25, 2003, Bayreuth, Germany

该提案寻求资助举办一个联合讲习班，重点是新聚合材料的合成和特性，将有来自美国和德国的年轻科学家参加。 本次研讨会的建议参与者有助于复杂的聚合物材料的合成和表征，其性能可以限制在微米和纳米的长度尺度。 聚合物具有复杂的结构，不同化学成分的复杂排列，并且通过高通量组合技术的发展，表征方法的范围已经扩大。 拟参与者有许多重叠的兴趣，包括树枝状聚合物、超支化和环状聚合物的广泛应用;多层膜的开发;用于装置和药物递送的响应材料的开发;肽和蛋白质的合成;两亲分子和嵌段共聚物在溶液和固态中的自组装;以及将有组织的相用于新的合成程序和开发新材料。 讲习班的目标是启动新的合作和互动，因此将强调缺乏国际曝光的年轻研究人员。 为了强调新的互动，任何人都不允许参加两次美德研讨会，除非他或她被选为下一次会议的共同组织者或以前的组织者。 拟议的美国参与者包括九名助理教授，两名最近晋升的副教授，以及两名都是副教授的组织者。 除了确保新的互动不断形成外，这一规定还阻碍了向“老男孩俱乐部”的演变。 拟议的讲习班有妇女和少数群体的积极参与。 在15名美国参与者中（3名工业），6名是女性，3名是非洲裔美国人，1名是西班牙裔，3名是亚洲人（在美国教师一级是少数民族）。 在12名拟议的德国与会者中，有两名妇女。 美国的参与者代表来自加州、德克萨斯州、中西部和东北部各州的大学和公司。

This proposal seeks funding for a joint Workshop focusing on the synthesis and properties of new polymeric materials, and will involve younger scientists from the United States and Germany. The proposed participants in this symposium have contributed to the synthesis and characterization of sophisticated polymeric materials whose properties can be confined at micron and nanometer length scales. The polymers have complex architectures, complex arrangements of diverse chemical constituents, and the range of characterization methods has expanded through the development of high throughput combinatorial techniques. The proposed participants have many overlapping interest, including the broad use of dendrimers, hyperbranched and cyclic polymers; the development of polyelectrolyte multilayers; the development of responsive materials for devices and drug delivery; the synthesis of pepties and proteins; the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules and block copolymers in both solution and solid-state; and the use of organized phases for new synthetic procedures and to develop new materials. The goal of the Workshop is to initiate new collaborations and interactions, and will therefore emphasize younger researchers who lack international exposure. In order to emphasize new interactions, no one is allowed to attend the US-Germany workshop twice, unless he or she is chosen to co-organize the next meeting or was the previous organizer. The proposed American participants include nine Assistant Professors, two recently-promoted Associate Professors, and the two organizers who are both Associate Professors. In addition to ensuring that new interactions are constantly forming, this stipulation also discourages evolution into an "old-boys club". The proposed workshop features active participation of women and minorities. Of the fifteen proposed US participants (three industrial), six are women, three are African American, one is hispanic, and three are Asian (which are minorities at the faculty level in the US). Of the twelve proposed German participants, two are women. The US participants represent Universities and companies from California, Texas, the Midwest and northeastern states.