International Travel: 9th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, FOA9 in Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy on May 20-25, 2007

这是一项美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的旅游资助项目，旨在支持来自美国学术和非营利研究机构的学生、博士后和教师参加将在意大利西西里岛贾迪尼纳克索斯举行的第九届国际吸附科学基础会议（FAO9）。FOA会议成立于1983年，旨在促进吸附科学家和工程师之间的国际科学合作，促进吸附科学和技术的不断进步。第九届国际吸附基础会议的主要目标是让来自世界各地的科学家和工程师展示他们在吸附科学与技术领域的最新研究成果，并概述该领域的进一步发展。会议将允许来自学术界和工业界的美国与会者与国际同行进行互动，特别是加强和/或建立与吸附研究人员的国际合作和科学交流。会议将涵盖各种与吸附相关的领域，从基础到新兴领域的应用，包括生物技术、替代能源、环境保护和修复。会议将包括全体会议、口头会议和海报会议。为了为会议奠定基础，全体会议发言人将对包括基础、材料、分子建模和过程在内的关键研究领域进行深入的概述。会议将持续5天半，来自世界各地的约400名与会者将参加会议。只有美国教育机构的终身教职员工及其研究生和美国非营利研究机构的研究人员将在会议上进行口头或海报演讲，才有资格申请这项NSF支持。优先考虑年轻教师（在学术界工作不超过5年）和距离毕业至少一年的年轻博士生，每位申请人最低可获得400美元，最高可获得800美元。我们预计为年轻教师提供最多10个500美元的奖励，为博士生提供最多5个600美元的奖励，剩余的资金将用于为其他需要的会议参与者提供400美元的旅行奖励。符合条件的与会者将被要求在会议结束后45天内向PI提交申请，包括由主席共同签署的信件（必要），要求报销部分差旅费，并说明他们根据NSF规定和上述资格标准要求退款的可靠性，机票收据和登机证原件。航空旅行津贴不超过往返经济机票的费用；来自美国的符合条件的参与者也将被告知，如果有的话，他们必须乘坐美国国旗的航空公司。参会人员将在会议结束后90天内报销。FOA9的广泛影响主要与能源、生物技术、制药和环境应用方面的潜在技术进步有关，通过在最高水平上分享新的与吸附有关的科学信息，这些技术进步可能成为可能。其他更广泛的影响将与年轻教师和博士生的参与有关，这些学生将在拟议的旅行基金的推动下，在真正的跨学科和国际科学聚会中接触到吸附科学和技术的前沿。

Giorgio CartaInternational Travel: 9th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption, FOA9CTS - 0648823This is an NSF travel grant that supports students, post doctoral fellows and faculty from US academic and nonprofit research institutions to attend the 9th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption Science FAO9 to be held in Giardini Naxos in Sicily, Italy. The FOA conferences were established in 1983 in order to promote international scientific collaborations among adsorption scientists and engineers and the continued advancement of adsorption science and technology. The primary goal and hence intellectual merit of the 9th International Conference on Fundamentals of Adsorption is to allow scientists and engineers from all over the World to present their most recent research efforts in the area of Adsorption Science and Technology and to outline further developments in this area. The conference will allow US participants from academia and industry to interact with their international counterparts and especially to enhance and/or establish international collaborations and scientific exchange with adsorption researchers. The conference will cover a wide variety of adsorption related areas from fundamentals to applications in new and emerging fields including biotechnology, alternative energy, and environmental protection and remediation. The conference will consist of plenary sessions, oral sessions and poster sessions. To set the stage for the conference, plenary speakers will present in depth overviews of key research areas covering fundamentals, materials, molecular modeling, and processes. The conference will last for five and one half days, and host approximately 400 participants from around the world.Only tenure-track faculty members and their graduate students in US educational institutions and researchers in US nonprofit research institutions who will have an oral orposter presentation at the meeting will be eligible to apply for this NSF support. Prioritywill be given to young faculty (who have been in academia for no more than 5 years) andyounger doctoral students who are at least one year away from graduation, with eachapplicant receiving a minimum of $400 up to a maximum of $800. We anticipate makingup to ten $500 awards to young faculty and up to five $600 awards to doctoral students,Any remaining funds will be used to make $400 travel awards to other conferenceparticipants on a need basis. Eligible attendees will be asked to send an application within45 days after the conference to the PI including a letter, co-signed by the Chairperson (orequivalent), requesting partial reimbursement of travel expenses and stating theireligibility for refund under the NSF regulations and according to the above eligibilitycriteria, an airline ticket receipt, and original boarding passes. The allowance for airtravel will not exceed the cost of a round-trip, economy airfare ticket; and eligibleparticipants from the US will also be informed that they must travel by US-flag carriers,if available. The attendees will be reimbursed within 90 days after the conference.The broader impacts of FOA9 are mainly associated with the potential technologicaladvances in energy, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and environmental applications madepossible by sharing new adsorption-related scientific information at the highest level.Additional broader impacts will be associated with the participation of young faculty anddoctoral students facilitated by the proposed travel funds, and their exposure to thefrontiers of adsorption science and technology in a truly interdisciplinary andinternational scientific gathering.