Travel Subsidies for Annual Meeting of NEES Consortium; May 21-22, 2003; Park City, UT

NEES联盟公司年会差旅补贴NEES联盟将于2003年5月21日至22日在犹他州帕克城举行第一次年会。会议将汇集NSF的NEES（小乔治·e·布朗地震工程模拟网络）倡议的未来参与者的核心小组。该活动的特色是由NSF项目经理介绍NEES研究资金的及时机会，设备现场和系统集成能力的演示，以及对其重大挑战研究可能性的讨论。有关年会的信息发布在http://www.nees.org。本提案要求参与者支持以鼓励参加会议，目标是为代表性不足的群体成员和初级教师提供支持。该活动的组织委员会由正在进行的NEES联盟开发项目的一个子集组成，该项目由美国国家科学基金会通过授予地震工程研究大学联盟（CUREE）的奖励资助。组委会将审核申请并分配助学金。

Travel Subsidies for Annual Meeting of NEES Consortium, Inc. CMS proposal 0331900PI: Robert Reitherman, CUREEThe NEES Consortium is holding its first Annual Meeting May 21 and 22, 2003 in Park City, Utah. The meeting will bring together a core group of future participants in NSF's NEES (George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) initiative. The program for the event features presentations by NSF program managers to explain timely opportunities for NEES research funding, demonstrations of Equipment Site and System Integration capabilities, and discussions of if grand challenges research possibilities. Information on the Annual Meeting is posted at http://www.nees.org. This proposal requests Participant Support to encourage attendance at the meeting, targeting such support for members of underrepresented groups and junior faculty. The Organizing Committee for the event consists of a subset of the in progress NEES Consortium Development Project funded by NSF through an award to the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE). This Organizing Committee will review applications and allocate stipends.