Group Travel Support for International Conference; Cambridge, UK; July 11-15, 2005

摘要美国国家科学基金项目编号：cts -0500185项目负责人：Woodbury， Keith a .隶属机构：阿拉巴马大学塔斯卡卢萨分校项目名称：国际会议团体旅行资助本项目将为10名（共）高级和新兴研究人员前往英国剑桥参加第五届国际工程反问题会议（5ICIPE）提供资金支持。大约60%的研究人员将是高级科学家，还有40%以上的初级新兴科学家。每位受邀者将被期望通过口头或海报形式提交并展示一篇论文来充分参与研讨会。被邀请的与会者将获得资助，用于支付为期五天的会议估计旅费的主要部分，包括机票和会议费用，包括住宿和膳食。其余部分将由参与者自己的资金或参与者所在机构提供。获得资助的研究人员将通过向组委会提交小型提案来选出。该会议是反问题领域唯一的主要跨学科会议。反问题出现在工程的所有分支中，其中系统由一组带参数的数学方程表示。反问题是已知输出和参数并求输入的输入问题，或者是已知输入和输出并求参数的参数估计问题。本次会议预计将吸引声学、弹性、电磁学、固体力学、传热等工程各领域的应用数学家、工程师和科学家。传热中的逆问题是相当普遍的，并且在热工设计的许多问题中具有特殊的相关性，正如它们在许多其他设计领域一样。由于40%或更多的资助参与者将是新兴科学家，他们参加本次会议将对培养下一代反问题领域的工程师、科学家和数学工作者产生重大影响。由于参与将是跨学科的，来自不同学科的研究人员聚集在这个地点的影响将是重大的。

AbstractNational Science FoundationProposal Number: CTS-0500185Principal Investigator: Woodbury, Keith A.Affiliation: University of Alabama--TuscaloosaProposal Title: Group Travel Support for International ConferenceThis proposal will provide financial support for ten (total) senior and emerging researchers to travel to the Fifth International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering (5ICIPE) in Cambridge, UK. About 60% of the researchers will be senior, and 40% more junior emerging scientists. Each invitee will be expected to participate fully in the Symposium by submitting and presenting a paper either in oral or poster form. The invited participants will receive support that will cover the major portion of the estimated Symposium travel expense, including airfare, and conference fees, including housing and meals, for the five day event. The remainder will be provided either from the participant's own funds or the participant's institution. The funded researchers will be selected by submitting mini-proposals to the organizing committee. The Conference is the only major interdisciplinary conference on Inverse Problems. Inverse problems arise in all branches of engineering in which the system is represented by a set of mathematical equations with parameters. The inverse problem refers to either the input problem, in which the output and parameters are known and the input is sought, or the parameter estimation problem, in which inputs and outputs are given and the parameters are sought. The conference is expected to draw applied mathematicians, engineers, and scientists working in all branches of engineering including acoustics, elasticity, electromagnetism, solid mechanics, and heat transfer. Inverse problems in heat transfer are quite prevalent and are of special relevance in many problems in thermal engineering design, as they are in many other design areas. Since 40% or more of the funded participants will be emerging scientists, their participation in this meeting will have a significant impact in the training of the next generation of engineers, scientists, and mathematics working in the area of Inverse Problems. Because the participation will be interdisciplinary in nature, the impact of researchers from different disciplines convening in this venue will be significant.