2004 Thin Film and Small Scale Mechanical Behavior

摘要2004年7月18日至23日，“薄膜与小尺度力学行为”戈登研究会议将在缅因州沃特维尔的科尔比学院举行。请提供财政支助，以帮助支付发言者和讨论领导的费用，其中包括三名妇女和八名年轻研究人员。这项支持也将帮助博士后和研究生。该提议的智力价值是双重的：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作对象，成像动态过程，测量属性，和建模机械行为，所有在精巧的小长度尺度。工业应用范围从集成电路到MEMS，再到芯片实验室。小尺度力学行为是纳米力学这门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具有广泛的影响。会议以开创意想不到的新研究方向而闻名。2004年的会议将在周二和周三的晚上举行两场头脑风暴会议：薄膜力学的未来和生物学与力学的联系。此外，两场海报会议将为所有与会者提供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的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项目的机会。

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.