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

提案编号：CBET-0733134 首席研究员：罗立石 所属单位：奥道明大学 提案标题：支持美国参与 ICMMES 的合作提案 该提案请求支持组织将于 2007 年 7 月 16 日至 20 日在慕尼黑举行的第四届 ICMMES 年度会议。会议预计将有来自工业界、政府和社会的国际知名专家和决策者参加。学术界讨论与介观方法相关的问题。智力贡献：该资金将用于支持美国院校的学生、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群体、妇女、残疾人以及传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 中的人员。 ICMMES国际会议系列的创建是对纳米或微米系统和生物系统中观察到的多尺度和多物理现象日益增长的兴趣的直接回应，以及计算科学对所有学科（特别是上述领域）研究的日益重要的影响。 ICMMES 会议系列的重点是最广泛意义上的计算力学的介观/动力学方法（例如，格子玻尔兹曼方程 (LBE)、格子气体元胞自动机 (LGCA)、离散速度模型 (DVM)、气体动力学方案 (GKS)、耗散粒子动力学 (DPD)、平滑粒子流体动力学 (SPH) 和各种混合方法）。感兴趣的具体领域包括但不限于介观/动力学方法，应用于：计算流体动力学（CFD）、复杂流体和软凝聚态物质的流变学、宏观、纳米或微观系统中的多尺度/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）汇聚来自学术界、研究机构和工业界的研究人员和从业者，交流经验，传播最新信息，探索该领域的新机遇； (2) 除会议、短期课程和网络媒体外，还通过会议、短期课程和互联网媒体等方式，让年轻或新的研究人员了解该领域的最新技术； (3) 积极鼓励 HBCU 中代表性不足的少数族裔、妇女、残疾人和学生通过参加 ICMMES 会议来参与前沿研究。 更广泛的影响：该提案的主要智力价值是通过积极参加 ICMMES 会议，让新的或年轻的美国科学家了解一个新的、重要的和快速发展的领域的研究前沿，这构成了鼓励对话和探究的理想环境。该提案的更广泛影响包括改善美国研究人员与世界各地其他人之间的网络；向整个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元化的社区；促进来自不同学科和机构的研究人员之间的协同作用；并加强美国在快速发展的研究领域的地位。

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.