Workshop: Chemical Bonding Centers: New Organizations to Address Emerging Areas of Opportunity in The Chemical Sciences

2004财年，化学系正在计划实施一项名为“化学键中心(CBCS)”的计划。据设想，CBCS将允许多方面的调查团队应对化学结合方面的重大挑战。重点将放在能够将理论和实验方法结合起来解决化学界感兴趣的明确定义的基本问题的支持小组上。通过这一奖项，化学司和数学和物理科学局多学科活动办公室将支持伊利诺伊大学香槟分校化学系的拉尔夫·G·努佐博士和哈佛大学化学和化学生物学系的乔治·M·怀特赛兹博士共同组织的研讨会。研讨会将探讨新的CBC方案的潜在范围和实施战略，以及它对该司现有和计划的投资组合的立场。

In FY2004, the Division of Chemistry is planning the implementation of a Program entitled "Chemical Bonding Centers (CBCs)." It is envisioned that the CBCs will allow multi-faceted teams of investigators to attack grand challenges in chemical bonding. A premium will be placed on supporting groups that can combine both theoretical and experimental approaches towards solving well-defined basic problems of interest to the chemical community. With this award, the Chemistry Division and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Directorate of Mathematics and Physical Sciences are supporting a workshop co-organized by Dr. Ralph G.Nuzzo of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Dr. George M. Whitesides of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. The workshop will explore the potential scope and implementation strategy for the new CBC Program and its position with respect to the existing and planned portfolio of the Division.