Research Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; location and date unknown

研究人员将举行一次会议，由美国国家科学基金会和德国研究基金会联合组织和资助。会议将重点讨论纳米材料和纳米技术在新型工程解决方案中的可持续利用。这次会议包括60名学者(美国和德国各30名)，他们的工作处于纳米科学和纳米技术研究的前沿。学者包括来自不同大学的高级和初级研究人员，会议旨在成为来自学术界、产业界和国家实验室的研究人员在纳米科学和纳米技术领域开展联合研究活动的起点。会议旨在采取强有力的跨学科方法，考虑到材料资源的可获得性和纳米材料的使用及其开发新的工程解决方案所固有的新的设计机会。会议的目的是探索几个研究界在这些问题上的进展，并将这些研究界聚集在一起，跨越学科界限。会议形式包括每次会议后特别一小时的小组讨论，旨在加强研究界之间的跨学科交流和公开对话和辩论。所有参与者都将出现在一个房间里，以便最大限度地促进参与者之间的相互交谈和思想交流。会议还包括一个海报会议，提供展示初级学者原创研究的场所。广泛的影响包括跨学科研究倡议的发展，研究生和博士后研究的传播，以及加强美国和德国合作研究的可能性。

The investigator will hold a conference, jointly organized and funded between the US National Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation- DFG). The conference will focus on the sustainable use of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for novel engineering solutions. The conference includes 60 scholars (30 each from the US and Germany), whose work is at the cutting edge of nanoscience and nanotechnology research. Scholars include senior and junior researchers representing a broad range of universities.The conference is intended to be the starting point for joint research activities between researchers from academia, industry and national laboratories in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The conference aims at a strong cross-disciplinary approach by taking into account the availability of materials resources and new design opportunities inherent to the use of nanomaterials and their development for novel engineering solutions. The objective is to explore the advances in several research communities with regard to such questions, and to bring these communities together across disciplinary boundaries.The conference format including special one-hour panel discussions after every session is designed to enhance cross-disciplinary exchange and open dialogue and debate between the research communities. All participants will present in a single room, so as to stimulate maximum cross-talk and exchange of ideas between the participants. The conference also includes a poster session that provides a venue for presentation of original research by Junior scholars.Broader impacts include the development of cross-disciplinary research initiatives, dissemination of graduate student and post-doc research, and enhancement of US/Germany collaborative research possibilities.