2004 Thin Film and Small Scale Mechanical Behavior

“薄膜和小尺度力学行为”的戈登研究会议将于2004年7月18-23日在缅因州沃特维尔的科尔比学院举行。请求提供财政支助，以帮助支付演讲者和讨论领导人的费用，包括三名妇女和八名年轻研究人员。 这项支持还将帮助博士后研究员和研究生。该建议的智力价值是双重的：该学科领域对力学和材料学科的独特重要性，以及该领域的跨学科性质。 十多年来，小尺度力学行为领域一直处于力学和材料学科的前沿。 科学挑战包括机械操纵物体，成像动态过程，测量属性和建模机械行为，所有这些都在非常小的长度尺度上。工业应用范围从集成电路到MEMS，再到芯片实验室。 小尺度力学行为领域是纳米力学新科学与影响人们日常生活的先进技术之间最明显的联系。 戈登会议对知识传播和知识基础设施产生了广泛的影响。 该会议被称为启动新的，意想不到的研究方向。 2004年会议将介绍两个集思广益会议：薄膜力学的未来和连接生物学和力学，在星期二和星期三晚上。此外，两个海报会议将为所有与会者提供一个展示相关研究工作的机会。其中一个海报会议将专门为年轻研究人员提供一个向更广泛的社区介绍自己和他们的研究计划的机会。

AbstractThe Gordon Research Conference on "Thin Film and Small Scale Mechanical Behavior" will be held in 18-23 July 2004, at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine. Financial support is requested to help to defray the costs for the speakers and discussion leaders, including three women and eight young researchers. The support will also assist postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. The intellectual merit of the proposal is twofold: the singular importance of the subject field to the discipline of the mechanics and materials, and the interdisciplinary nature of the field. For over a decade, the field of small scale mechanical behavior has been at the leading edge of the discipline of the mechanics and materials. Scientific challenges include mechanically manipulating objects, imaging dynamic processes, measuring properties, and modeling mechanical behavior, all at exquisitely small length scales. Industrial applications range from integrated circuits, to MEMS, and to lab-on-a-chip. The field of small scale mechanical behavior is the most visible link between the new science of nanomechanics and the advanced technologies that affect daily lives of people. The Gordon Conference has a broad impact on knowledge dissemination and intellectual infrastructure. The Conference is known to initiate new, unexpected research directions. The 2004 Conference will introduce two brainstorming sessions: The Future of Thin Film Mechanics and Linking Biology and Mechanics, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. In addition, two poster sessions will offer all attendees a chance to present relevant research work. One of the poster sessions will specifically give young researchers an opportunity to introduce themselves and their research programs to the broader community.