Sponsorship and Expanded Young Investigator Support for the Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science (SRMS-5) Conference

摘要美国国家科学基金提案号：cts -0630519首席研究员：Segre， carlos隶属于伊利诺斯技术研究所提案标题：赞助和扩大青年研究员支持SRMS-5会议该基金将为2006年7月30日至8月2日在芝加哥举行的第五届国际材料科学同步辐射会议（SRMS-5）提供部分支持。自1997年成立以来，该会议一直致力于促进同步辐射在工程研究中的应用。这笔拨款将部分支付会议的费用，但更重要的是，将使一群年轻的科学家和工程师能够参加会议，否则他们可能无法参加会议。同步辐射为所有主要学科的科学家和工程师提供了越来越多的新颖、敏感和可行的工具和技术。美国能源部已经建造并正在运行四个主要的同步加速器设施，美国国家科学基金会和各州正在运行另外几个紫外线到x射线光谱的同步加速器设施。随着这些最先进的设备及其强大的表征和制造技术的可用性，人们越来越有兴趣利用它们在不同的工程领域进行创新和前沿研究。同步辐射使研究人员能够以以前不可能的方式观察、探测、检查、成像、分析和制造，其潜力刚刚开始实现。在热科学、材料表征以及微纳米制造方面的应用尤其令人鼓舞，并落在NSF的几个优先研究领域。会议将汇集来自广泛领域的顶尖科学家和工程师，包括材料科学、纳米科学和工程、热过程、工程材料、表面和界面等。在NSF对会议的支持下，将为10名年轻工程师和科学家提供参加SRMS-5的参与者支持。10名获奖者的选择将分两步进行，首先由会议组织委员会的一部分筛选申请人，然后由跨越工程和科学学科并具有重要同步加速器经验的pi进行最终选择。通过支持年轻研究人员参加SRMS-5，会议可以帮助加速同步辐射技术在工程界的采用。

ABSTRACTNational Science FoundationProposal Number: CTS-0630519Principal Investigator: Segre, CarloAffiliation: Illinois Inst of TechnologyProposal Title: Sponsorship and Expanded Young Investigator Support for the SRMS-5 ConferenceThis grant will provide partial support for the fifth International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science (SRMS-5) to be held in Chicago from July 30 to August 2, 2006. This conference has, since its inception in 1997, been promoting the application of synchrotron radiation to engineering research. The grant will partly cover the costs of the conference, but more importantly, will enable the participation of a cohort of young scientists and engineers who might otherwise not be able to attend. Synchrotron radiation provides an expanding number of novel, sensitive, and enabling tools and techniques for scientists and engineers in all major disciplines. The U.S. Department of Energy has constructed and is operating four major synchrotron facilities and the NSF and individual states are operating several others in the ultraviolet to x-ray spectrum. With the availability of these state-of-the-art facilities and their powerful characterization and fabrication techniques, there is increasing interest in exploiting them for innovative and frontier research in diverse engineering fields. Synchrotron radiation allows researchers to look, probe, examine, image, analyze, and fabricate in ways that have not been possible before and whose potential is just beginning to be realized. Applications in the thermal sciences, in materials characterization, and in micro and nano-manufacturing are especially encouraging and fall in several of the NSF priority research areas. The conference will bring together leading scientists and engineers from a wide array of fields including materials science, nano-science and engineering, thermal processes, engineered materials, surfaces and interfaces, and others. With NSF support for the conference, participant support will be provided for ten young engineers and scientists to attend SRMS-5. The selection of the ten awardees will be made in a two-step process, starting with screening of applicants by a subset of the conference organizing committee and followed by final selection by the PIs who span the engineering and science disciplines and have significant synchrotron experience. By supporting the attendance of young researchers at SRMS-5, the conference can help to accelerate the adoption of synchrotron radiation techniques in the engineering community.