Travel Grant for Sixth Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference in Belek, Antalya, Turkey (March 7-12, 2010)

第六届地中海化学工程会议（EMCC-6）将于2010年3月7日至12日在土耳其安塔利亚的Belek举行。根据NSF （PAM， V.B2）无需同行评议。M)为会议、专题讨论会和讲习班请求奖励。该项目为参加2010年3月7日至12日在土耳其安塔利亚贝莱克亚特兰蒂斯酒店举行的第六届东地中海合作研究化学工程会议（EMCC-6）的美国学术代表提供旅费。参与国包括土耳其、希腊、以色列、约旦、意大利、保加利亚、罗马尼亚和美国。来自其他东地中海国家的学术化学工程师也将被邀请。知识价值：讲习班的目的是向参与国的研究人员介绍化学工程五个领域的最新和潜在的变革性研究：水处理/水压力化学工程方面的挑战；未来能源工程；过程强化;纳米和混合材料和生物工程。此外，餐后还将举办可持续能源、未来能源工程和清洁环境的化学工程研讨会。选择这些领域是因为它们是所有参加国的关键技术领域。这是该系列的第六次会议。前五次成功的会议是1999年3月在以色列海法的以色列理工学院举行的，来自土耳其、以色列和美国的代表参加了会议；2001年5月在安卡拉（中东技术大学）举行，来自希腊和其他三个国家的化学工程师参加了会议；2003年5月在希腊塞萨洛尼基举行，四个参加国参加；2006年1月在以色列死海举行，意大利、罗马尼亚和保加利亚以及其他四个国家参加；2008年在意大利塞特拉罗举行，所有七个国家参加。来自土耳其萨班齐大学的Yuda Yurum教授将担任会议主席。美国EMCC协调委员会由Steve Cramer （Rensselaer）、Nick Abbott （Wisconsin）和Alex Katz （Berkeley）组成，正在组织一个由来自五个研究领域的约25名美国演讲者组成的一流小组。这将包括高级研究人员和有前途的年轻研究人员。来自其他国家的杰出受邀演讲者已承诺参加，每个国家将邀请大约20名研究人员进行口头或海报演讲。研究生的海报展示也将包括在项目中。此外，还将向5名美国与会者提供特别旅行补助，让他们前往土耳其和其他国家（以色列、土耳其、希腊、保加利亚或罗马尼亚）进行访问和演讲，以发展和/或促进合作。更广泛的影响：根据以往的会议结果，预计将对参加下一届EMCC会议的美国工程师产生重大而广泛的影响。前三届EMCC会议对美国、土耳其、以色列和希腊的学者了解他们的研究兴趣和能力以及促进研究合作产生了重大影响。第四次和第五次会议提供了进一步的机会，将会议扩大到包括意大利、保加利亚和罗马尼亚。这些会议的另一个好处是，它们为来自东地中海的大量研究生提供了与来自美国和其他国家的经验丰富和年轻的教师研究人员直接互动的机会。此外，这些会议为参加国的教员就课程问题进行富有成果的讨论提供了极好的论坛。除了美国参与者将与其他国家的人进行个人接触外，促进研究和教学理念以及人员的交流，并在美国化学工程师与东地中海国家的化学工程师之间建立研究合作，也将有利于美国的利益。像过去一样，招收潜在的研究生也可能是非正式的。最后，这也是会议系列的意图，通过广泛的科学和个人交流，发生在这个多国戈登式会议上，对参与国产生重大的工业/社会影响。

1012114CramerGroup Travel Grant for Sixth Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference (EMCC-6) to be held on March 7-12, 2010 in Belek, Antalya, Turkey. No peer review needed in accordance with NSF (PAM, V.B2.m) requesting awards for conferences, symposia, and workshops. This project provides for travel funds for U.S. academic representatives to attend the 6th Chemical Engineering Conference for Collaborative Research in Eastern Mediterranean (EMCC-6) to be held on March 7-12, 2010 at the Atlantis Hotel, Belek, Antalya, Turkey. The participating countries are Turkey, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Italy, Bulgaria, Rumania and the United States. Academic chemical engineers from other Eastern Mediterranean countries will also be invited.Intellectual Merit: The purpose of the Workshop is to update researchers from the participating countries with the new and potentially transformative research in five areas in chemical engineering: Challenges in water treatment/chemical engineering aspects of water stress; future energy engineering; process intensification; nano and hybrid materials and biological engineering. In addition, there will be post-dinner workshops on sustainable energy future energy engineering and chemical engineering for a clean environment. These areas were selected since they are critical technology areas in all of the participating countries. This is the sixth conference of a series. The five previous successful conferences were at the Technion, in Haifa, Israel in March 1999 with representatives from Turkey, Israel and the U.S.; in Ankara (Middle Eastern Technical University) in May, 2001 with participation by chemical engineers from Greece as well as the other three countries; in Thessaloniki, Greece in May 2003 with participation by the four participating countries; at the Dead Sea, Israel in January 2006 with participation from Italy, Romania and Bulgaria as well as the other four countries and at Cetraro Italy, 2008 with participation from all seven countries. Prof. Yuda Yurum from Sabanci University (TURKEY) will be the Chair of the Conference. The US EMCC coordinating committee, consisting of Steve Cramer (Rensselaer), Nick Abbott (Wisconsin) and Alex Katz (Berkeley), is organizing a first class group of approximately 25 U.S. presenters who will be invited from the five research areas. This will include a blend of senior researchers and promising young investigators. Distinguished invited presenters from the other countries have committed to participate and approximately 20 investigators from each country will be invited to give oral or poster presentations. Poster presentations by graduate students will also be included in the program. Special travel supplements will also be provided to five US participants to visit and lecture in Turkey and the other countries (Israel, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria or Rumania) to develop and/or promote collaborations.Broader Impact: It is expected based on past conference results that there will be a significant and broad impact on the US engineers attending the next EMCC conference. The first three EMCC Conferences have had major impacts in acquainting US, Turkish, Israeli, and Greek academics with their research interests and capabilities and in fostering research collaborations. The fourth and fifth conferences provided further opportunities, by expanding the conference to include Italy, Bulgaria and Rumania. An added benefit of these conferences is the exposure they have provided for large numbers of graduate students from the Eastern Mediterranean to interact directly with both seasoned and young faculty researchers from the U.S. and the other countries. In addition, these conferences have provided excellent forums for fruitful discussions on curriculum issues among faculty of the participating countries. In addition to the personal contacts that the U.S. participants will make with people from the other countries, it will be beneficial to U.S. interests to foster exchanges of research and teaching ideas and of personnel, and establish research collaborations between chemical engineers from the U.S. and chemical engineers from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. It is also likely that recruitment of potential graduate students may occur informally, as in the past. Finally, it is also the intention of the conference series to have significant industrial/societal impacts on the participating countries through the extensive scientific and personal exchanges that occur in this multicountry Gordon style conference.