Sixth International Workshop on Modeling in Crystal Growth (IWMCG-6) to be held in Lake Geneva, WI, August 9-13, 2009

第六届晶体生长建模国际研讨会（IWMCG-6）将于2009年8月9日至13日在威斯康星州的日内瓦湖举行。本次研讨会将汇集来自美国、欧洲、亚洲和世界其他地区的学术界和工业界的顶尖高级和有前途的初级研究人员，以确定共同的优先事项，交流新思想，并促进未来的合作工作。NSF的支持是为了促进学术研究人员的出席，特别是年轻的研究人员（研究生，博士后研究员和年轻教师）。学术界的参与对于完成本次研讨会的使命至关重要，更重要的是，这将使这些研究人员能够通过国际接触和未来的合作来推进他们的工作。晶体生长建模国际研讨会在其数学分析、数值算法和物理应用的融合以及对最先进技术的关注方面是独一无二的。由于在晶体生长建模中表现多尺度的极端挑战，因此非常需要对算法和数值方法进行广泛的讨论。IWMCG提供了一个论坛，不仅包括对物理的深入讨论，而且还提供了一个平等平面上解释建模方法的演示，从数学公式到数值算法再到软件实现。在这方面，更一般的会议不能满足晶体生长建模界的需求。虽然建模的结果通常在这些更一般的会议上得到很好的接受，但对建模细节的更广泛的讨论却没有得到很好的接受。本次研讨会除了促进该领域研究人员之间的国际讨论和合作外，还将促进一个重要而及时的研究课题。晶体生长领域具有丰富的科学和工程内容，在技术和经济上都很重要，因为美国和全球的电子工业实际上都是在单晶材料上制造的。对这些材料的生长进行建模，旨在为生长过程中决定材料质量的物理机制提供必要的见解，并为经济过程优化提供工具。晶体生长也是一个需要加强的具有战略重要性的领域。事实上，国家研究委员会已经完成了MSAC的研究，该研究将于2009年6月发布，该研究声称，由于缺乏联邦政府对晶体生长的支持，美国已经失去了几种关键的材料合成能力。一个致力于理解和推进晶体生长领域的研讨会将提供一个重要的手段，继续在社区内交流思想，吸引新来者到该地区。拟议活动所产生的更广泛影响。IWMCG将首次与北美最大的晶体生长会议ACCGE-17/OMVPE 14同时举行，使研讨会与会者能够发现外延薄膜和块状晶体生长各方面的最新进展。ACCGE、OMVPE和IWMCG联合会议将把来自工业界、政府和学术界的研究人员聚集在一个不受外界干扰的非正式环境中，有充足的时间进行讨论和互动。他们将努力实现性别平衡，并将优先向已确定的代表性不足群体的个人提供支持。他们坚定地遵守《美国残疾人法案》，并确保所有会议活动都是轮椅无障碍的。除了这些标准之外，他们还将尽可能提供最先进的技术会议，与会者包括学术研究、工业和教育专业人士，以及高级和初级研究人员、博士后学员和研究生。

0939445DerbyThe Sixth International Workshop on Modeling in Crystal Growth (IWMCG-6) is to be held in Lake Geneva, WI, August 9-13, 2009. This Workshop will bring together top senior and promising junior researchers of both academe and industry from the United States, Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world to identify common priorities, allow the exchange of new ideas, and foster future collaborative work. NSF support is sought to promote the attendance of academic researchers, especially young investigators (graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and young faculty). The participation of the academic community is vital for carrying out the mission of this workshop and, more importantly, will enable these researchers to advance their work through international exposure and future collaboration. The International Workshops on Modeling in Crystal Growth are unique in their blending of mathematical analysis, numerical algorithms, and physical applications and their focus on state of the art techniques. Because of the extreme challenges in representing multiple scales in crystal growth modeling, there is a great need for extensive discussions of algorithms and numerical methods. The IWMCG provides a forum that embraces not only in depth discussions of physics but also presentations explaining modeling methods, from mathematical formulation to numerical algorithms to software implementations, on an equal plane. In this regard, more general meetings do not meet the needs of the crystal growth modeling community. While results from modeling are often well received at these more general meetings, more extensive discussions of the details of modeling are not.Intellectual merit of the proposed activity: In addition to promoting international discourse and collaboration among researchers in this area, this workshop will promote an important and timely research topic. The area of crystal growth is rich in scientific and engineering content and is technologically and economically important, since the U.S. and global electronics industries are literally fabricated upon single-crystalline materials. Modeling the growth of these materials aims to provide needed insight to the physical mechanisms during growth which determine materials quality as well as providing a tool for economic process optimization. Crystal growth is also an area of strategic importance that is in need of strengthening. Indeed, the National Research Council has completed the MSAC study, to be released in June 2009, that asserts that the U.S. has lost several critical competencies in the synthesis of materials due to a lack of federal support for crystal growth. A workshop dedicated to understanding and advancing the field of crystal growth will provide an important means to continue the exchange of ideas in the community and attract newcomers to the area. Broader impacts resulting from the proposed activity. For the first time, the IWMCG will be held in conjunction with the largest North American crystal growth conference, ACCGE-17/OMVPE 14, allowing workshop attendees to discover the latest advances in all aspects of epitaxial thin film and bulk crystal growth. The joint ACCGE, OMVPE, and IWMCG conferences will bring together researchers from industry, government and academia in an informal setting that is isolated from outside distractions, with ample time for discussion and interaction. They will strive for gender balance and will provide priority support to individuals from under-represented groups that are identified. They are firmly committed to the Americans with Disabilities Act and have ensured that all conference activities are wheelchair accessible. Beyond these criteria, they will attempt to provide the most advanced technical meeting possible, with a mixture of attendees from academic research, industry and educational professions, and also with a mixture of senior and junior investigators, post-doctoral trainees and graduate students.