Travel Support for 23rd "International Union of Pure and Applied Physics" Triennial Conference on Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics (STATPHYS-23) Genoa, Italy, July 9-13,

该奖项资助学生、博士后助理和年轻教员参加将于2007年7月9日至13日在意大利热那亚举行的第23届国际统计物理会议STATPHYS-23的旅费。该奖项由多学科活动办公室、化学司、物理司和材料研究司支持。统计力学是一个跨学科的领域，从业者来自化学、数学、生物、物理、计算机科学和工程科学。这个社区每三年收集一次成果，并规划未来的工作。这些会议是由国际理论和应用物理联合会(IUPAP)主办的。这一三年一次的系列会议于1949年在佛罗伦萨开始，一直持续到今天。从1986年在波士顿举行的会议开始，NSF一直在发放旅行补助金，使没有其他支持的年轻调查人员能够参与其中。自1986年以来，该会议一直没有在美国举行，因此许多年轻科学家没有机会参加。这一奖项将使15-20名研究生和年轻研究人员能够参加STATPHYS-23。一个代表各行各业资深科学家的遴选委员会已承诺公平地遴选一组平衡的“NSF学者”，代表统计力学领域的所有学科，并特别关注合格的女性和少数族裔候选人。该奖项将允许年轻人参加一个重要的国际会议，从而为美国科学的科学基础设施做出贡献。它将加强这些年轻人与欧洲和其他国家同龄人的联系。过去的经验表明，那些获得助学金的研究生发现，这段经历对他们的职业发展非常重要。

This award supports travel for students, postdoctoral associates and young faculty in order to attend STATPHYS-23, the 23nd International Conference on Statistical Physics, to be held in Genoa, Italy, 9-13 July, 2007. The award is supported by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, the Chemistry Division, the Physics Division and the Division of Materials Research. Statistical mechanics is a cross-disciplinary field with practitioners coming from chemistry, mathematics, biology, physics, computer science and the engineering sciences. Every three years, this community assembles results and to plan future work. These meetings are sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). This triennial series of meetings started in Florence in 1949 and continues to the present day. Starting with the 1986 meeting in Boston, the NSF has been awarding travel grants to enable young investigators without other support to participate. The meeting has not been in the U.S. since 1986, so many young scientists have not had the opportunity to participate. This award will enable 15-20 graduate students and young researchers to participate in STATPHYS-23. A selection committee representing a cross-section of senior scientists has committed to undertake a fair selection of a balanced group of "NSF Scholars," representing all disciplines of the statistical mechanics community and paying particular attention to qualified female and minority candidates. The award will contribute to the scientific infrastructure of U.S. science by permitting young people to participate in a major international meeting. It will strengthen the ties of these young people to their peers in Europe and other foreign countries. Past experience has indicated that those graduate students who have been awarded grants have found the experience to be extremely important in their career formation.