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

0334836 Ramesh该奖项支持参加将于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College Park的马里兰州大学的Ramamoorthy Ramesh教授、日本东北大学的Akihisa Inoue教授和日本科学促进会的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。 该计划将侧重于与先进功能材料的科学和技术相关的关键问题。 其中要解决的领域是磁性和电子记忆存储材料。 纳米材料是目前材料科学中最具发展活力的领域之一。 纳米结构材料是一个相对较新的领域，其特征在于各种类型的有前景的物质表现出广泛的上级性质。 其中包括具有独特的高机械、增强的磁性、电子和光学特性的材料。 这些特性已经通过范围从1至100 nm的非常小的结构单元（晶粒、颗粒、层）尺寸而成为可能，其比在常规金属材料或合金中获得的那些小得多。 研讨会将讨论当前高度关注的主题，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。 这些最近出现的主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东太平洋地区有前途的研究人员提供机会，使他们在专业范围内会面和互动，期望这种互动将激发他们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提供讲座，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.