Partial Support for the 2nd Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas

该补助金将为美国研究生和博士后学生提供部分支持，以参加将于2010年8月4日至8月14日在德国格赖夫斯瓦尔德的格赖夫斯瓦尔德大学举行的国际第二届复杂等离子体研究生暑期研究所。既定目标是教育复杂等离子体所带来的科学挑战和技术机遇。暑期学校将处理尘埃和强耦合等离子体，反应等离子体，微等离子体，量子等离子体和等离子体与表面接触。这一广泛而严格的课程将通过吸引大量年轻的美国研究人员来推动这一新兴领域的进一步发展，因为他们将在这些领域遇到科学挑战和技术机遇，从而可以建立成功的学术或工业职业生涯。此外，新兴的复杂等离子体应用似乎是小型高科技初创公司的一个非常肥沃的领域，这些公司将把这一领域视为市场实现基本等离子体概念的有利创新来源。

This grant will provide partial support for American graduate and postdoctoral students to participate in an international 2nd Graduate Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas, which will be held from August 4 to August 14, 2010 at the University of Greifswald in Greifswald, Germany. The stated goal is educational advancement of the scientific challenges and technological opportunities afforded by complex plasmas. The summer school will treat dusty and strongly coupled plasmas, reactive plasmas, microplasmas, quantum plasmas, and plasmas in contact with surfaces. This broad yet rigorous curriculum will lead to further advancement in this new and emerging field by attracting young American researchers in significant numbers since they will encounter scientific challenges as well as technological opportunities in these areas upon which they can build a successful academic or industrial careers. Further, the emerging complex plasma applications appear to be a remarkable fertile field for small, high-tech start-up companies which will perceive this field as a favorable innovation source for marketplace realization of basic plasma concepts.