A Collaborate Proposal for Supporting US Participation in ICMMES (July 16-20, 2007

提案编号：CBET-0733134首席研究员：罗丽诗隶属关系：老自治领大学提案标题：支持美国参与ICMMES的合作提案本提案请求支持将于2007年7月16-20日在慕尼黑举行的第四届ICMMES年会。预计将有来自工业界、政府和学术界的国际知名专家和决策者出席会议，讨论与介观方法有关的问题。学术价值：这笔资金将用于支持美国机构的学生、博士后研究人员和初级教师积极参加国际工程与科学介观方法会议(ICMMES)。我们将特别考虑代表性不足的少数民族、妇女、残疾人和历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的那些人。国际海洋环境和环境科学国际会议系列的设立是对在纳米或微系统和生物系统中观察到的多尺度和多物理现象日益感兴趣，以及计算科学对所有学科的研究，特别是对上述领域的研究日益重要的直接回应。ICMMES系列会议的焦点是计算力学的介观/动力学方法(例如，格子Boltzmann方程(LBE)、格子气体元胞自动机(LGCA)、离散速度模型(DVM)、气体动力学格式(GKS)、耗散粒子动力学(DPD)、光滑粒子流体力学(SPH)和各种混合方法)。感兴趣的具体领域包括但不限于，应用于以下领域的介观/动力学方法：计算流体动力学(CFD)、复杂流体和软凝聚物质的流变学、宏观、纳米或微系统中的多尺度/物理现象、热化学非平衡系统、新算法和特殊计算机硬件。ICMMES会议的目标是：(1)聚集来自学术界、研究机构和产业界的研究人员和从业人员，交流经验，传播最新信息，探索该领域的新机会；(2)除了会议、短期课程和互联网媒体外，还通过其他方式让年轻或新的研究人员接触该领域的最新技术；以及(3)通过参加ICMMES会议，积极鼓励HBCU中未被充分代表的少数群体、妇女、残疾人和学生参与前沿研究。广泛影响：这项建议的主要智力价值是通过积极参与ICMMES会议，使新的或年轻的美国科学家接触到一个新的、重要的和快速增长的领域的研究前沿，这构成了鼓励对话和探究的理想环境。这项建议的更广泛影响包括改善美国研究人员与世界各地其他研究人员之间的网络；向广大科学界传播最新的研究信息；帮助为年轻科学家创建一个更具包容性和多样性的社区；促进来自不同学科和机构的研究人员之间的协同；以及加强美国在快速增长的研究领域的地位。

Proposal Number: CBET-0733134 Principal Investigator: Luo, Li-Shi Affiliation: Old Dominion University Proposal Title: A Collaborative Proposal for Supporting US Participation in ICMMES This proposal requests support for the organization of the 4th annual ICMMES conference to be held in Munich 16-20 July 2007. The conference is expected to be attended by internationally known experts and decision makers from industry, government, and academia to discuss issues related to mesoscopic methods. Intellectual Merit:The funds will be used to support students, post-doctoral researchers, and junior faculties from US institutions to actively participate in the International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES). We will give special consideration to under-represented minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and those in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). The creation of the ICMMES international Conference series is a direct response to the increasing interest in multi-scale and multi-physics phenomena observed in nano- or micro-systems and biological systems, and the increasing importance of computational science to research in all disciplines, especially to the aforementioned areas. The focus of the ICMMES conference series is mesoscopic/kinetic methods (e.g., lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE), lattice gas cellular automata (LGCA), discrete velocity models (DVM), gas-kinetic schemes (GKS), dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and various hybrid methods) for computational mechanics in its broadest sense. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to, mesoscopic/kinetic methods applied to: computational fluid dynamics (CFD), rheology of complex fluids and soft-condensed matter, multi-scale/physics phenomena in macro-, nano- or micro-systems, thermo-chemically nonequilibrium systems, new algorithms and special computer hardware. The objectives of the ICMMES Conferences are: (1) To bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, research institutions and industry to exchange experiences, disseminate up-to-date information, and explore new opportunities in the field; (2) To expose young or new researchers to the state of the art in the field, by means of, in addition to the Conferences, short courses and the internet media; and (3) To actively encourage underrepresented minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and students in HBCUs to participate in frontier research by attending the ICMMES Conferences.Broader Impact:The main intellectual merit of this proposal is to expose new or young US scientists to research frontiers in a new, important and rapidly growing field by active participation in ICMMES Conferences, which constitute an ideal environment for encouraging dialog and inquiry. Broader impacts of this proposal include an improved networking between US researchers and others all over the world; disseminating up-to-date research information to the scientific community at large; helping create a more inclusive and diverse community for young scientists; fostering a synergy among researchers from different disciplines and institutions; and strengthening the US position in a fast-growing field of research.