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会提案编号：CTS-0630519 首席研究员：Segre, Carlo 隶属关系：伊利诺伊理工学院提案标题：对 SRMS-5 会议的赞助和扩大青年研究者支持这项拨款将为将于 7 月 30 日至 8 月 2 日在芝加哥举行的第五届材料科学同步辐射国际会议 (SRMS-5) 提供部分支持， 2006年。该会议自1997年创办以来，一直致力于推动同步辐射在工程研究中的应用。这笔赠款将部分支付会议费用，但更重要的是，将使一批原本无法参加的年轻科学家和工程师能够参加。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、灵敏且有利的工具和技术。美国能源部已经建造并正在运营四个主要的同步加速器设施，美国国家科学基金会和各个州正在运营其他几个从紫外线到 X 射线光谱的同步加速器设施。随着这些最先进的设施及其强大的表征和制造技术的出现，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。同步加速器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，其潜力刚刚开始被认识。热科学、材料表征以及微米和纳米制造中的应用尤其令人鼓舞，并且属于 NSF 的几个优先研究领域。 此次会议将汇集来自材料科学、纳米科学与工程、热处理、工程材料、表面与界面等多个领域的顶尖科学家和工程师。在 NSF 对会议的支持下，将为参加 SRMS-5 的 10 名年轻工程师和科学家提供参与者支持。 十名获奖者的评选将分两步进行，首先由会议组委会的一部分人员筛选申请人，然后由跨越工程和科学学科并具有丰富同步加速器经验的 PI 进行最终选择。通过支持年轻研究人员参加 SRMS-5，该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.