Scialog: A Program of Scientific Research and Dialog

该奖项由化学，材料科学和数学科学部门提供，用于支持一个实验项目的两次会议，该项目将测试以对话形式将还原论科学方法与综合科学方法相结合的方法。 通过对话映射等互动方式鼓励团队在太阳能收集，捕获和转换方面进行潜在的变革性研究，这是一种促进对话的方法，以及无指导的互动。 这些研讨会的目标是在太阳能转换领域注入新的研究团队，并建立创造性的，多学科的社区，使用对话，将改变该领域，产生突破性的成果。这些研讨会利用了科学进步研究公司和NSF对太阳能的投资。研讨会将于2010年10月和2011年10月在亚利桑那州图森附近的生物圈2号举行。

This award from the Divisions of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Mathematical Sciences supports two meetings of an experimental program which will test approaches combining reductionist scientific methodologies with integrative scientific methodologies in the form of dialog. Team approaches to potentially transformative research in solar energy harvesting, capture, and conversion are encouraged through interactive modalities such as Dialog Mapping, which is a method of facilitated dialog, as well as unguided interactions. The goals of these workshops are to infuse new teams of researchers in the solar energy conversion field and to build creative, multidisciplinary communities that, using dialog, will transform the field, producing breakthrough outcomes. The workshops leverage investments in solar energy made by both Research Corporation for Science Advancement and NSF. The workshops will occur at the Biosphere 2 near Tuscon, Arizona in October, 2010 and 2011.