Travel Support for FOA10 Conference

该提案要求为参加2010年5月23日至28日在日本Awaji举行的第10届吸附基本原理国际会议(FOA10)的美国与会者提供部分旅费支持。这笔资金将用于支持美国教育机构的终身教职员工及其研究生以及美国非营利性研究机构的研究人员的旅行，他们将在会议上进行口头或海报演示。将优先考虑年轻教职员工(在学术界工作不超过5年)和研究生。FOA系列会议已成为吸附领域的首要国际会议。来自世界各地的研究人员都参加了这次会议。许多与会者都是化学工程师，但也有相当数量的化学家、物理学家和其他学科的成员，行业参与程度很高。因此，这次会议是科学家、学术界工程师和该领域的工业从业者之间交流思想和信息的绝佳论坛。这次会议的一个标志是其对吸附基础研究和应用领域的全面报道，从多孔材料中吸附的流体的分子建模和模拟到工业气体分离过程的变压吸附系统的设计。FOA10将通过在最高级别共享与吸附有关的新的科学信息，促进吸附在能源、生物技术、制药和环境应用方面的技术进步。其他更广泛的影响将与年轻教员和博士生的参与(由拟议的旅行基金促进)以及他们在真正的跨学科和国际科学聚会中接触到吸附科学和技术的前沿有关。

This proposal requests partial travel support for U.S. participants to attend the 10th International Conference on the Fundamentals of Adsorption (FOA10) in Awaji, Japan, May 23rd-28th 2010. The funds will be used to support the travel of tenure-track faculty members and their graduate students in U.S. educational institutions, as well as researchers from US nonprofit research institutions who will have an oral or poster presentation at the meeting. Priority will be given to young faculty (who have been in academia for no more than 5 years) and graduate students. The FOA series of conferences has become the premier international conference in the field of Adsorption. The conference is well attended by researchers from throughout the World. Many of the attendees are Chemical Engineers but there are also significant numbers of Chemists, Physicists and members of other disciplines, and the level of industrial participation is high. Thus the conference is an excellent forum for the exchange of ideas and information between scientists, engineers in academia and industrial practitioners in the field. A hallmark of the conference is its comprehensive coverage of the spectrum of fundamental research and applications of adsorption, ranging from molecular modeling and simulation of fluids adsorbed in porous materials to the design of pressure swing adsorption systems for industrial gas separation processes. Technological advances in energy, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and environmental applications of adsorption will be facilitated by FOA10 through sharing of new adsorption-related scientific information at the highest level. Additional broader impacts will be associated with the participation of young faculty and doctoral students (facilitated by the proposed travel funds), and their exposure to the frontiers of adsorption science and technology in a truly interdisciplinary and international scientific gathering.