East Asia & Pacific Advanced Study Institute: New Frontiers of Functional Materials

该奖项支持参加2003年7月28日至8月2日举行的东亚和太平洋高级科学研究所(ASI)。主要合作者是位于学院公园的马里兰大学的Ramamoorthy Ramesh教授和日本东北大学的Akihisa Inoue教授，以及日本科学促进会的Yuko Furukawa女士。研讨会将为讨论材料科学各个领域的最新发展提供机会，并促进先进材料创新研究方面的国际协作与合作。该计划将重点关注与先进功能材料的科学和技术相关的关键问题。需要解决的领域包括磁存储材料和电子存储材料。纳米材料是当前材料科学发展最快的领域之一。纳米结构材料是一个相对较新的领域，它以各种类型的潜在物质为特色，展示了广泛的优越性能。其中包括具有独特的高机械性能、增强的磁性、电学和光学性能的材料。这种性能是通过非常小的结构单元(颗粒、颗粒、层)尺寸从1到100 nm来实现的，这比传统金属材料或合金中获得的尺寸要小得多。研讨会将讨论当前人们非常感兴趣的话题，如自组装、自旋电子学、波功能材料(光子晶体、声波晶体和分形光子学)、先进的铁电薄膜结构。这些最近出现的话题显示出成为物理学和材料科学新领域的希望。高级科学研究所旨在为来自东太平洋地区的有前途的研究人员提供在专业背景下见面和互动的机会，期望这种互动将激发对国际研究合作的终身兴趣，并鼓励他们之间建立国际网络。该研究所将包括大约40名在过去10年内获得博士学位的有前途的研究人员。此外，来自世界各地的知名高级研究人员将发表演讲，指导研讨会和互动会议。

0334836RameshThis award supports participation in an East Asia and Pacific Advanced Science Institute (ASI) to be held July 28 - August 2, 2003. The main collaborators are Professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh at the University of Maryland in College Park and Professor Akihisa Inoue at Tohoku University in Japan and Ms. Yuko Furukawa of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in Japan. The seminar will provide an opportunity for discussion of recent developments in various fields of materials science and to promote international collaboration and cooperation in innovative research on advanced materials. The program will focus on key issues associated with the science and technology of advanced functional materials. Among the fields to be addressed are magnetic and electronic memory storage materials. Nanomaterials is currently one of the most dynamically developing fields of materials science. Nanostructured materials is a relatively new field that features various types of prospective substances demonstrating a wide range of superior properties. Among them are materials with exclusively high mechanical, enhanced magnetic, electronic and optical properties. Such properties have been made possible by a very small structure unit (grain, particle, layer) size ranging from 1 to 100nm, which is much smaller than those obtained in conventional metallic materials or alloys. Current topics of high interest, such as self assemblies, spin electronics, wave functional materials (photonic crystals, sonic crystals, and fractal photonics), advanced ferroelectric thin film structures, will be addressed in the seminar. These recently emerging topics show promise in becoming new fields of physics and material science. The Advanced Science Institute is designed to provide opportunities for promising researchers from the East-Pacific region to meet and interact in a professional context, with the expectation that such interaction will stimulate life-long interest in international research cooperation and encourage international network building among them. The Institute will include about 40 promising researchers who have obtained their doctoral degrees within the preceding 10 years. In addition, eminent senior researchers from around the world will deliver lectures and guide workshops and interactive sessions.