Bilateral U.S. - U.K. NSF/EPSRC Workshop "The Synthesis of Complex Chemical Systems"

该奖项由无机、生物无机、有机金属和合成有机化学项目颁发，支持参加由麻省理工学院的Timothy Swager教授和伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的Jeffrey Moore教授组织的“复杂化学系统的合成”国际研讨会。英国工程与物理科学研究委员会（EPSRC）将提供所有当地住宿。这个工作坊将强调裁剪分子以达到特定的组织和期望的功能。研讨会将集中于具有挑战性和当代的研究，在设计、制备和表征定义良好的分子系统，可以被认为是复杂的，因为它们的大小，原子的三维排列，高度的功能，或自组织成多分子组装的成分的集合。Jason Green博士（EPSRC）和Alejandra Palermo博士（皇家化学学会）将担任英国政府组织者，爱丁堡大学的Lesley Yellowlees教授被指定为会议的英国学术主席。会议定于2006年3月19日（星期日）晚至2006年3月21日（星期二）在英国牛津郡的埃恩舍姆大厅举行。研讨会旨在让年轻的化学家接触到更广泛的国际学术社区，并为富有成效的国际合作、文化理解和知识交流建立长期的桥梁。本次研讨会旨在为化学家们提供一个交流研究思想、成果和共同问题的论坛。研讨会的形式是粉笔对话和公开讨论，事实证明，这种形式既刺激又有助于所有与会者自由交流思想。设置和提议的暂定时间表旨在鼓励正式和非正式的讨论，使参与者彼此熟悉。除了一个例外，所有的美国参与者都是在独立职业生涯的八年内，并在这一领域做出了重大贡献。参与者平均来自美国各地的有机和无机背景。

This award by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic and Synthetic Organic Chemistry programs supports travel to an international workshop on "The Synthesis of Complex Chemical Systems," which is organized by Prof. Timothy Swager of MIT and Prof. Jeffrey Moore of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK will supply all local accommodations. This workshop will emphasize tailoring molecules to achieve specified organizations and desired functions. The workshop will focus on challenging and contemporary research in the design, preparation and characterization of well-defined molecular systems that can be considered complex because of their size, three-dimensional arrangement of atoms, high degree of functionality, or the collection of constituents that self-organize into multi-molecular assemblies. Dr. Jason Green (EPSRC) and Dr. Alejandra Palermo (Royal Society of Chemistry) will both serve as the U.K. governmental organizers and Professor Lesley Yellowlees from the University of Edinburgh has been designated as the UK academic chair for the meetings. The conference is scheduled to extend from Sunday evening, March 19, 2006 through Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at Eynsham Hall in Oxfordshire (UK). The workshop aims to expose younger chemists to the broader community of international scholarship and to build long-term bridges for productive international collaboration, cultural understanding, and knowledge exchange. The workshop is expected to provide a forum for the exchange of research ideas, accomplishments and common problems among the group of chemists. The format of the workshop, chalk talks with open discussions, has been proven to be both stimulating and conductive to free-flowing exchange of ideas for all the participants. The setting and the proposed tentative schedule are designed to encourage formal and informal discussion that will allow participants to become well acquainted with one another. All the U.S. participants, with one exception, are within eight years of their independent careers and have made significant contributions to this field. The participants are evenly drawn from organic and inorganic backgrounds geographically from across the United States.