Third-Generation Solar Technologies Multidisciplinary Workshop: Synergistic Chemistry-Materials-Mathematical Sciences Approaches to Addressing Solar Energy Problems

该奖项支持第三代太阳能技术多学科研讨会：解决太阳能问题的协同化学-材料-数学科学方法，该研讨会将与春季材料研究学会在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行的会议同时举行。多学科研究对于推进可持续能源科学和技术至关重要。科学家和工程师在实现太阳能的高效采集、转换和储存方面面临着许多科学挑战。重大进展需要开箱即用的思维、多学科和新的跨学科方法。该讲习班旨在鼓励新的合作，其中数学科学与物理科学以协同的方式联系在一起，以开发太阳能研究中可能具有变革性的新方法，这是一个非常活跃但基本上是渐进进步的领域。讲习班将突出利用物理科学和数学科学来解决太阳能问题和开发新一代太阳能技术方法的努力。被邀请的演讲者是从成功地结合化学、材料和数学科学的专业知识来解决太阳能科学问题的研究人员小组中挑选出来的。本次研讨会的目标受众包括化学家、物理学家、数学家、材料科学家和工程师。研讨会将展示和挑战国内和国际研究人员团体，包括科学和工程各个领域的学术人员、学生、博士后和工业研究人员，以一种新的方式解决太阳能科学中的科学问题。在科学、技术、工程和数学领域代表性不足的科学家在会议组织者和特邀演讲者中得到了很好的代表。

This award supports the Third-Generation Solar Technologies Multidisciplinary Workshop: Synergistic Chemistry-Materials-Mathematical Sciences Approaches to Addressing Solar Energy Problems, which will be held in conjunction with the spring Materials Research Society Meeting in San Francisco, California. Multidisciplinary research is essential for advancing sustainable energy science and technology. Scientists and engineers face many scientific challenges to realizing highly efficient harvesting, conversion, and storage of solar energy. Major advances require out-of-the-box thinking, multidisciplinary and new interdisciplinary approaches. This workshop is designed to encourage new collaborations in which the mathematical sciences are linked in a synergistic way with the physical sciences to develop novel, potentially transformative approaches in solar energy research, an area of much activity but largely incremental advances. The workshop will highlight efforts to leverage the physical sciences with mathematical sciences to address solar energy problems and to develop approaches to new generation solar technologies. Invited speakers were chosen from groups of researchers that have been successful combining the expertise of chemistry, materials, and mathematical sciences to address problems in solar energy science. The targeted audience for this workshop includes chemists, physicists, mathematicians, materials scientists, and engineers. The workshop will expose and challenge a national and international group of researchers, including academic faculty, students, post docs and industrial researchers in all fields of science and engineering to a new way of tackling scientific problems in solar energy science. Scientists under-represented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are well represented in the conference organizers and invited speakers.