Student Support for Electron Backscattered Diffraction Topical Conference

这个奖项将部分资助计划于2008年5月20-22日在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校举行的关于电子背散射衍射(EBSD)的会议，该会议由微束分析学会赞助。EBSD是一种重要的技术，它利用高能电子的衍射来确定天然和合成材料中晶体的取向。用灵敏的相机收集的衍射图可以被编入索引，并与各种成像技术相结合，以分析单相和多相材料的纹理的空间变化。由此产生的数据可以提供有关晶体结构和取向的信息。这种方法在材料科学和地质学中都有重要的应用，与了解从结晶过程到微观结构的一切事物有关，这些微结构记录了材料的历史并影响了材料的性质(如强度和导电性)。这种类型的会议在美国从未举行过，尽管它每年在欧洲举行，来自不同领域的从业者(和新人)聚集在一起，交流关于EBSD的信息和经验。我们会议的第一天将是一个全天的教程，目标是希望掌握这项技术的初学者(学生和其他人)。接下来的两天将包括受邀的演讲和贡献的演讲，目标是参与者之间的重要互动。将在会议期间组织和突出宣传会议，允许更多的参与，特别是学生和博士后研究人员的参与。NSF的资金将用于资助学生参加会议。

0813918GoodwinThis award will partially support a conference focused on Electron Backscattered Diffraction (EBSD) planned for May 20-22, 2008, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the sponsorship of the Microbeam Analysis Society. EBSD is an important technique that utilizes the diffraction of high-energy electrons to determine the orientations of crystals in natural and synthetic materials. Diffraction patterns, which are collected with a sensitive camera, can be indexed and combined with a variety of imaging techniques to analyze spatial variations in the texture of single phase and polyphase materials. The resulting data can yield information about both crystal structure and orientation. This approach has major applications in both material science and geology related to understanding everything from crystallization processes to microstructures that record material histories and affect material properties (such as strength and conductivity).A meeting of this type has never been held in the U.S., though it occurs annually in Europe, bringing practitioners (and newcomers) together from a variety of fields to exchange information about, and experiences with, EBSD. The first day of our conference will be an all-day tutorial aimed at beginners (students and others) who wish to get up to speed with this technique. The next two days will consist of invited and contributed talks, with a goal being significant interaction among the participants. Poster sessions will be organized and highlighted during the session, allowing additional involvement, particularly by students and post-doctoral researchers. NSF funds will be used to subsidize student participation in the conference.