A Proposal for Holding the Twelfth-to-Fourteenth NSF Materials Chemistry Workshop

该奖项由化学和材料研究部联合资助，支持由科罗拉多州立大学彼得·K·多胡特博士组织的一系列材料化学研讨会。这些讲习班将于2004年秋季至2006年秋季举行。将从材料化学领域的方方面面的申请者中挑选，并进行同行评选。每个研讨会将有大约30人参加，旨在让具有共同材料化学兴趣的科学家聚集在一起，这些科学家来自不同的背景，包括无机、有机、物理、生物、聚合物和分析化学以及其他科学和工程学科。这些讲习班从教育和研究的角度为材料化学这一技术关键领域提供了重点。此外，这些讲习班还在一个论坛上促进工业界、政府和学术界科学家之间的对话和合作，以确定基本和技术问题，并鼓励他们进行调查。这些讲习班的学术价值来自与会者之间在介绍前沿科学和探索新的合作研究努力时进行的非正式和生动的讨论期间有机发展起来的网络。来自以本科生为主的机构(PUI)的教员可以与更大的大学、行业和国家实验室的研究员联系，了解新的研究和新的机会。这些材料化学讲习班的气氛将继续有利于讨论和传播想法，途径如下：(I)尽可能广泛地征求申请者的意见，面向材料化学界的所有部门，特别注意鼓励工业、政府、少数群体、妇女和青年材料化学家申请。(2)根据择优标准挑选参与者，以形成一个多样化和互动性强的参与者群体。(3)坚持一种促进讨论想法、不鼓励正式介绍过去的研究成果的陈述形式。在这些指导方针的范围内，讲习班提供了对材料化学新方向的非正式、挑衅性和激励性的讨论。

This award, which is jointly funded by the Divisions of Chemistry and Materials Research, supports a series of Materials Chemistry Workshops, which are to be organized by Dr. Peter K. Dorhout at Colorado State University. Participants in these workshops, which will be held in the autumns of 2004 through 2006. will be drawn from applicants from all aspects of the field of materials chemistry with peer-reviewed selection. Approximately 30 participants will attend each workshop, which are designed to bring together scientists with common materials chemistry interests from diverse backgrounds including inorganic, organic, physical, biological, polymer and analytical chemistry as well as other science and engineering disciplines. The workshops provide a focus for the technologically critical field of materials chemistry from both educational and research points of view. In addition, the workshops promote dialogue and collaboration between industry, government and academic scientists in a forum that identifies fundamental and technological problems and stimulates their investigation. The intellectual merit of these workshops derives from the networks that organically develop between the participants during the informal and vivid discussions inherent to these workshops as breaking science is presented and new collaborative research efforts are explored. Faculty from Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) can connect with felow researchers in larger universities, industry and national laboratories to learn of new research and new opportunities. The atmosphere of these materials chemistry workshops will continue to be conducive to discussion and dissemination of ideas via the following means: (i) The broadest possible solicitation for applicants, aimed at all sectors of the materials chemistry community with special attention to encouraging industrial, government, minority, women, and young materials chemists to apply. (ii) Selection of participants based on merit-based criteria designed to produce a diverse and interactive group of participants. (iii) Adherence to a presentation format that promotes discussion of ideas and discourages formal presentation of past research results. Within these guidelines, the workshops provide for informal, provocative and stimulating discussions of new directions in materials chemistry.