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，该研讨会将与在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行的春季材料研究学会会议同时举行。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收集、转换和存储方面面临着许多科学挑战。重大进步需要开箱即用的思维、多学科和新的跨学科方法。本次研讨会旨在鼓励新的合作，将数学科学与物理科学以协同的方式联系起来，以开发新颖的、具有潜在变革性的太阳能研究方法，太阳能研究是一个活跃但基本上是渐进式进展的领域。该研讨会将重点介绍如何利用物理科学和数学科学来解决太阳能问题并开发新一代太阳能技术的方法。受邀演讲者是从成功结合化学、材料和数学科学专业知识来解决太阳能科学问题的研究人员群体中选出的。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。该研讨会将向国内外研究人员群体提出挑战，其中包括科学和工程各个领域的学术教师、学生、博士后和工业研究人员，以寻找解决太阳能科学中科学问题的新方法。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演讲者中得到了充分体现。

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.