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

该奖项为参加2007年7月9日至13日在意大利热那亚举行的第23届国际统计物理学会议（statphys23）的学生、博士后助理和年轻教师提供旅费。该奖项由多学科活动办公室、化学部门、物理部门和材料研究部门提供支持。统计力学是一个跨学科的领域，从业人员来自化学、数学、生物学、物理学、计算机科学和工程科学。每隔三年，这个社区就会汇总结果并规划未来的工作。这些会议是由国际纯粹与应用物理联合会（IUPAP）主办的。这个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年波士顿会议开始，美国国家科学基金会就一直在提供旅行资助，使没有其他支持的年轻研究人员能够参加会议。自1986年以来，该会议就没有在美国举行过，因此许多年轻科学家没有机会参加。该奖项将资助15-20名研究生和青年研究人员参与statphys23项目。一个代表各领域资深科学家的遴选委员会承诺公平地选出一个均衡的“NSF学者”群体，这些学者代表了统计力学界的所有学科，并特别关注合格的女性和少数族裔候选人。该奖项将通过允许年轻人参加重大国际会议，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极为重要。

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.