Conference Support to Send US Participants to the Twelfth Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII); Port of Spain, Trinidad; January 2-6, 2012

这项建议的目标是促进在北美、中美洲和南美洲之间建立新的科学联系，在应用力学的下一代科学领袖中建立联系。为此，将向来自美国的年轻科学家颁发旅行奖学金，参加2012年1月3日至6日在特立尼达西班牙港举行的第十二届泛美应用力学大会。这批青年科学家将是由大会组委会成员对提交的摘要进行修改和排序后选出的研究生、博士后研究人员和早期职业教授，一些南美国家的经济增长已开始反映在他们的研究档案中。这次会议将加强美国与中南美洲之间的科学关系。此外，向会议提交的论文精选将包括在《2012年美洲的应用机械学》合集中，该合集将分发给与会者，并在档案网站上提供。最有价值的演讲的作者还将被邀请为《应用力学杂志》的一期特刊撰写一篇论文。最后，随着会议的临近，将创建一个全面的会议网站，并将在会议结束后至少保留两年，直到下一次PACAM。该网站可以在http://www.pacamxii.org，上找到，随着信息的涌现，它正在逐步丰富。会议的整个议程将在那里展示，包括提交的摘要。

The goal of this proposal is to foster the establishment of new scientific links between North, Central and South America among the next generation of scientific leaders in Applied Mechanics. This will be accomplished by awarding travel fellowships to young scientists from the United States to the Twelfth Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics, to take place in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on January 3-6, 2012. This group of young scientist will be graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early career professors, selected by members of the organizing committee of the conference upon revision and ranking of the submitted abstract.The economic growth of some South American countries is now beginning to be reflected in their research portfolio. The conference will strengthen scientific relations between the United States and South and Central America. Additionally, a selection of papers submitted to the conference will be included in the collection "Applied Mechanics in the Americas 2012," which will be distributed to attendees and made available in an archival website. The authors of the most meritorious presentations will also be invited to contribute a paper to a special issue of the Journal of Applied Mechanics. Finally, a comprehensive website for the conference will be created as the conference approaches, and will remain there for at least two years after the conference, until the next PACAM. The website can be found at http://www.pacamxii.org, and it is being progressively enriched with information as it comes along. The entire program of the conference will be displayed there, including the submitted abstracts.