Symposium on Liquid and Solid Foams; Austin, Texas; May 8-13, 2011

这笔赠款为2011年5月8日至13日在得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校举行的液体和固体泡沫国际研讨会提供了部分旅费。这次研讨会将汇集来自数学、物理、化学和工程的研究人员，他们从事流体力学、流变学、固体力学和泡沫的冲击力学研究。参与者背景的多样性是独一无二的，应该会激发人们沿着新的方向思考。泡沫塑料和更普遍的泡沫材料具有独特的特性，这些特性源于它们相互连接的细胞网络的微观结构。这种微结构赋予固体泡沫较高的硬度和强度重量比，此外还具有出色的能量吸收特性和出色的隔热和隔音性能。由于许多固体泡沫在气泡形成和变形的过程中处于液态，并逐渐凝固，因此发泡过程会影响所产生的固体泡沫的微观结构和性能。被邀请的与会者包括研究生、博士后、年轻研究人员和工业研究人员，他们应该受益于接触到世界上最好的泡沫力学研究人员。年轻的美国参赛者将优先获得旅行支持。讲座将被录像，并将在一个专门的网站上观看。为了更广泛地传播，以演讲为基础的全文论文将作为两册特刊在高影响力的国际期刊上发表。

This grant provides partial travel support for an international symposium on Liquid and Solid Foams, to be held at the University of Texas at Austin, May 8-13, 2011. This symposium will bring together researchers from mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering who work in fluid mechanics, rheology, solid mechanics, and impact mechanics of foams. This diversity of participant backgrounds is unique and should stimulate thinking along new directions. Foams and more generally cellular materials have unique characteristics that are derived from their microstructure of interconnected networks of cells. This microstructure imparts to solid foams high stiffness- and strength-to-weight ratios, in addition to excellent energy absorption characteristics and exceptional thermal insulation and acoustical properties. Since many solid foams originate in a liquid state with the formation and deformation of gas bubbles, and gradually solidify, the foaming process influences the microstructure and the properties of the produced solid foams. Invited attendees include graduate students, post-docs, young researchers and industrial researchers who should benefit from their exposure to the best researchers in foam mechanics in the world. Young US participants will be given priority for travel support. The lectures will be video-taped and will be made available for viewing at a dedicated website. For wider dissemination, full length papers based on the presentations will be published as two special volumes in high impact international journals.