Symposium FF: Mechanical Nanofabrication, Nanopatterning, and Nanoassembly; Boston, Massachusetts; November 28 to December 3, 2011

机械纳米制造、纳米刻蚀和纳米组装NSF提案CMMI-1156126寻求为研究生、博士后以及未被充分代表和初级教师出席并出席为期四天的机械纳米制造、纳米刻蚀和纳米组装研讨会提供旅行奖励，研讨会将在2011年材料研究学会秋季会议期间举行。这次研讨会将汇聚基础力学、纳米力学和材料力学领域的研究人员，以及开发和使用纳米级可扩展制造的机械手段的工程师和工业家。它将提供一个论坛，通过扩展对潜在过程和多尺度界面现象的科学理解来定义和提出问题和解决途径，这些过程和多尺度界面现象支配着从纳米到宏观的机械制造。纳米加工的力学领域正在快速发展，有可能极大地影响未来的可扩展制造战略。关键是要组建一个多样化的社区，在界面上接受这项工作。这个社区将继续推动科学进步并鼓励新的跨学科研究人员的发展。这项活动将：？鼓励一个具有跨学科观点的研究人员组成的包容性社区，致力于纳米尺度制造机制的工作？宣传应用于工业问题的纳米制造机制以及新的基本理论见解的最新进展？启动思想交流，促进机械工程师、材料科学家、化学家和工业家之间新的多学科合作？使初级科学家(包括研究生、博士后学者、由美国国家科学基金会提供的资金将用于奖励20名研讨会参与者每人500美元的旅费。这种支助的目标是扩大包括妇女和代表不足的少数群体在内的不同初级研究人员群体的参与，否则他们可能会受到经济限制，不能参加专题讨论会介绍他们的研究成果。

Mechanical Nanofabrication, Nanopatterning, and NanoassemblyNSF Proposal CMMI-1156126 seeks travel awards for graduate students, post-docs, as well as under-represented and junior faculty to attend and present at the four-day symposium on Mechanical Nanofabrication, Nanopatterning and Nanoassembly, to be held during the 2011 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting. This symposium will bring together researchers in the area of basic mechanics, nanomechanics, and mechanics of materials with the engineers and industrialists developing and using mechanical means of nanoscale scalable manufacturing. It will provide a forum to define and present problems and solution pathways through expanded scientific understanding of the underlying processes and multi-scale interfacial phenomena that govern mechanically based fabrication spanning nanoscopic to macroscopic dimensions.The field of mechanics of nanofabrication is making rapid advances with the potential to greatly impact future scalable manufacturing strategies. It is critical to assemble a diverse community that embraces this work at the interface. This community will promote continued scientific advancement and to encourage the development of new inter-disciplinary researchers.This activity will:?Encourage an inclusive community of researchers with interdisciplinary perspectives working on the mechanics of nanoscale manufacturing?Publicize recent advances in the mechanics of nanomanufacturing applied to industrial problems as well as novel fundamental theoretical insights?Initiate exchange of ideas and promote new multi-disciplinary collaborations among mechanical engineers, material scientists, chemists and industrialists?Enable junior scientists (including graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) to present their research findings and to interact with the community of established and prominent researchers in this field.The funds provided by NSF will be used to award 20 symposium participants with travel support of $500 each. The goal of this support is to broaden the participation of a diverse group of junior researchers including women and underrepresented minorities who otherwise may be financially restricted from attending the symposium to present their research.