6th US-Japan Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena---Science and Engineering

该奖项部分支持第六届日美纳米尺度输运现象联合研讨会。科学与工程，将于2008年7月13日至16日在马萨诸塞州的波士顿举行。这次会议的目的是延续美国和日本研究人员在纳米尺度输运过程领域的一系列非常成功的会议，特别强调热输运。这些会议每三年举行一次，轮流在日本和美国举行。就会议的学术价值而言，纳米尺度输运过程的研究仍然处于热流体研究的前沿。美日双方都有各自的特长和深度。传统上，日本研究人员在分子动力学模拟方面非常强大，而美国方面在纳米尺度的实验测量方面表现出了实力。部分由于以前nsf支持的研讨会，美方在分子动力学计算方面获得了相当多的专业知识。同样，第六次会议很可能将促进进一步的信息交流，从而在这一领域取得更多进展。这次会议更广泛的影响包括，为美国的初级和高级研究人员提供了与日本同行会面的机会，并与他们进行了相当长的讨论。一些在美国的研究生，以及未被充分代表的少数民族和女性，将得到美国国家科学基金会奖的支持。本次会议上发表的论文将发表在《纳米/微尺度热物理工程》杂志上，这将使研讨会得到广泛传播。

CBET-0809084, ChenThis award partially supports the 6th Japan-US Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena?Science and Engineering, which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 13-16, 2008. The purpose of this meeting is to continue this highly successful series of meetings between US and Japanese researchers in the field of nanoscale transport processes, with particular emphasis on thermal transport. These meetings have been held every three years, and alternate between locations in Japan and in the US.With respect to the intellectual merit of the conference, the study of nanoscale transport processes remains at the forefront of thermofluids research. Both the US and the Japanese sides bring their own particular specialties and depths to this meeting. Traditionally, the Japanese researchers have been very strong at molecular dynamics simulations, and the US side has exhibited strength in experimental measurements at the nanoscale. Partly as a result of previous NSF-supported workshops, the US side has gained considerable expertise in molecular dynamics computations. It is likely that, likewise, this sixth meeting will stimulate further exchanges of information that will lead to more advances in this field.The broader impacts of the conference include the opportunity for US researchers, both junior and senior, to meet their Japanese counterparts and to hold discussions with them at considerable length. A number of US-based graduate students, and underrepresented minorities and women, will be supported by the NSF award. Selected papers presented at this meeting will be published in the journal Nano/Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, which will allow for broad dissemination of the workshop.