U.S.-Turkey Workshop on Shape Memory Alloys: Current Challenges and Future Prospect, June 2010, at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

形状记忆合金研讨会：当前的挑战和未来的展望？将于2010年6月20日至24日在土耳其伊斯坦布尔科克大学校园举行。研讨会由几名教职员工组织，包括德克萨斯农工大学的卡拉曼博士，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳香槟分校、肯塔基大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的其他教职员工以及来自德国和土耳其的同事。联合组织者是土耳其伊斯坦布尔科克大学工程系代理院长M·伊尔萨迪·阿克森博士。会议将包括大约50个演讲和小组讨论，涵盖形状记忆合金的广泛主题，以及学生/博士后海报会议和竞赛。该研讨会是由美国国家科学基金会资助的德克萨斯农工大学国际材料研究所(IMI)与其他几所大学合作举办的。国际多功能能源转换材料研究所？旨在发展与中东和地中海国家在高效能源转换和可靠能源转移方面的伙伴关系和研究合作。形状记忆合金是一类重要的能量转换和传递材料，是该研究所的重要组成部分。这次研讨会的目的是让SMA研究界聚集在一起，分享该领域的最新发展、不断发展的主题和机会。更重要的是，研讨会旨在创建一个生动的讨论论坛，分析研究界可以/应该在科学基础方面做些什么，以带来SMA的下一次革命，以加速将SMA插入到能源、基础设施、生物医学、汽车、航空航天和消费品市场的现有和新的应用领域，从驱动到减振，从能量收集到传输。会议讨论的议题将对中小企业的未来产生重大影响，并对美国的研究竞争力具有重要意义。会议为受邀的科学家提供了一个独特的论坛，交流他们对国际和多学科环境中共同感兴趣的问题的看法。智力优势：本次SMA研讨会将重点介绍这些材料在加工、表征、多尺度建模和器件应用方面的新材料设计、实验、计算和理论进展，以及对潜在工艺和机制的更好理解。此外，还将突出对科学和工程边界的跨学科研究。更广泛的影响：研讨会为学生与国际实验和理论研究人员以及应用前线人员之间的密切互动和交流提供了一个独特的机会。此外，包括来自代表性不足群体的研究生将找到一个论坛来展示他们的研究，并与他们的同行和形状记忆研究社区中公认的专家进行互动。研讨会将在科克大学的校园内举行，该大学位于美国国家科学基金会资助的IMI感兴趣的地理区域的中心。这将为来自该地区的科学家和学生提供一个轻松参加研讨会的机会，更好地与美国科学家和学生互动，并与美国研究人员和大学发展新的伙伴关系和合作。为了保持美国在活跃材料领域的领导地位，研讨会是及时的，与NSF的任务相关。

A Workshop on Shape Memory Alloys: Current Challenges and Future Prospect? is to be held June 20th-24th, 2010 on the campus of Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. The workshop is organized by several faculty members including Dr. Karaman from Texas A&M University, and others from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, the University of Kentucky, and the Pennsylvania State University, together with the colleagues from Germany and Turkey. The co-organizer is Dr. M. Irsadi Aksun, Acting Dean of Engineering at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. The meeting will consist of approximately 50 presentations with panel discussions, covering a wide range of topics in shape memory alloys, and student/post-doc poster session and competition. The workshop is an activity of the NSF-funded International Materials Institute (IMI) at Texas A&M University, in partnership with several other universities. This ?International Institute of Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion? aims at developing partnership and research collaborations with Middle East and Mediterranean countries in efficient energy conversion and reliable energy transfer. Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) are an important material class for the energy conversion and transfer and an integral part of this institute. The goal of this workshop is to bring the SMA research community together to share the recent developments in the field, evolving topics, and opportunities. More importantly, the workshop aims at creating a vivid discussion forum to analyze what the research community can/should do in the scientific fundamentals to bring about the next revolution in SMAs for their accelerated insertion into existing and new fields of applications from actuation to damping and from energy harvesting to transmission in energy, infrastructure, biomedical, automotive, aerospace, and consumer products markets. Topics covered at the meeting will have significant impact on the future of SMAs and are of importance to the US research competitiveness. The meeting provides a unique forum for invited scientists to communicate their ideas on problems of common interest in an international and multidisciplinary environment. Intellectual merit: This SMA workshop will highlight the new material design, experimental, computational, and theoretical advances in processing, characterization, multiscale modeling, and device applications of these materials, as well as improved understanding of the underlying processes and mechanisms. In addition, the interdisciplinary research on the boundaries of science and engineering will be highlighted. Broader impacts: The workshop provides a unique opportunity for close interactions and communication between the students and the international experimental and theoretical researchers as well as people at the applications front. Moreover, graduate students including the ones from underrepresented groups will find a forum to present their research and interact with their peers and with recognized experts in the shape memory research community. The workshop will be held on the campus of Koc University, which is at the center of the geographical region of interest for the NSF-funded IMI. This will provide an opportunity for scientists and students from the region to easily attend the workshop, better interact with the U.S. scientists and students, and develop new partnership and collaborations with the US researchers and universities. To maintain the US leadership in active materials, the workshop is timely and relevant to the NSF mission.