Workshop on the Future of Carbon-Nanoscience and Engineering, Dec. 3, 2010. To Be Held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

知识价值。本提案要求在麻省理工学院组织一个关于碳纳米科学与工程的未来的研讨会。这门短期课程旨在向新英格兰地区的研究生和本科生介绍石墨烯的新特性和可能性，石墨烯是一种单层碳原子，具有无与伦比的传输特性。它将汇集石墨烯科学和技术方面的世界专家，并将促进学生的参与。更广泛的影响。拟议中的石墨烯电子学短期课程将为学生参与者提供一个机会，让他们了解新材料石墨烯、其基本物理特性和潜在的工程应用。这次研讨会的时机对于这一代学生了解石墨烯的新科学和技术是如何发展的理想选择。这些课程将在石墨烯之外有用，因为这些学生将能够将其应用于他们在职业生涯中遇到的任何未来新材料和技术。将特别努力通过广告和积极招聘的方式，让女性和少数民族学生参加短期课程。

Intellectual merit. This proposal requests partial funding to organize a Workshop on the Future of Carbon Nanoscience and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This shortcourse aims to introduce the graduate and undergraduate students in the New England region to the new properties and possibilities of graphene, a single monolayer of carbon atoms with unsurpassed transport properties. It will bring together world experts in graphene science and technology and it will foster student participation.Broader Impact. The proposed short course on graphene electronics will provide student participants with an opportunity to gain exposure to the new material graphene, its basic physics and potential engineering applications. The timing of this workshop is ideal for this generation of students to learn how the new science and technology of graphene is developing. These lessons will be useful beyond graphene, as these students will be able to apply them to any future newmaterials and technologies that they will encounter during their career. Special effort will be made to involve female and minority students in the short course by advertisement and active recruitment.