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：协同化学-材料-数学科学方法解决太阳能问题，该研讨会将与加州州弗朗西斯科的春季材料研究学会会议一起举行。多学科研究对于推进可持续能源科学和技术至关重要。科学家和工程师面临着许多科学挑战，以实现太阳能的高效收集，转换和存储。重大进展需要打破常规的思维、多学科和新的跨学科方法。该研讨会旨在鼓励新的合作，其中数学科学以协同的方式与物理科学相联系，以开发太阳能研究中新的，具有潜在变革性的方法，这是一个活跃但基本上是渐进式进展的领域。讲习班将突出强调利用物理科学和数学科学解决太阳能问题和开发新一代太阳能技术方法的努力。特邀演讲者是从成功结合化学，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中选出的。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。该研讨会将展示和挑战一个国家和国际研究人员团体，包括学术教师，学生，博士后和工业研究人员在科学和工程的所有领域，以解决太阳能科学的科学问题的新方法。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受邀发言者中有很好的代表性。

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.