2012 Correlated Electron Systems GRC and GRS; Mount Holyoke College; South Hadley, MA; June 23-29, 2012

NSF基金将用于支持青年和早期职业科学家参加2011年戈登超导研究会议（Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity）（注册和旅行）。这个两年一次的会议汇集了世界各地的专家和青年科学家，讨论超导体物理学中的开放性问题，并传播这些新材料的最新理论和实验研究成果。它代表了一个训练场，对于保持美国在这一重要技术领域的领导地位至关重要。2011年的会议将纪念Heike Kamerlingh Onnes发现超导100周年，并将重点讨论高温超导体中未解决的关键问题，包括铜酸盐和铁基超导体以及拓扑超导体和重电子超导。将强调电子设备和能量传输和储存的新材料和新技术应用的发现。将为理论和实验方面的突破性发现预留两个专题会议，以便展示最新的研究成果。会议的形式将包括专家的正式报告和非正式的“头脑风暴”会议，其中将鼓励自由讨论。会议将为高级研究生和博士后研究人员提供一个理想的环境，探索最新的理论和实验方法，以研究对基础科学和技术应用具有巨大重要性的材料物理学中的挑战性问题。代表人数不足的群体的成员被招募为会议发言人，为将参加会议的年轻科学家提供榜样和潜在的导师。

NSF funds will be used to support (registration and travel) the attendance of junior and early career scientists at the 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity. This biennial conference brings together world experts and young scientists to discuss open questions in the physics of superconductors and to disseminate the latest theoretical and experimental research results in these novel materials. It represents a training ground essential to maintaining U.S. leadership in this technologically important area. The 2011 conference will mark the 100th anniversary of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes' discovery of superconductivity and will focus on key unanswered questions in high-temperature superconductors including the cuprates and the iron-based superconductors as well as topological superconductors and heavy-electron superconductivity. The discovery of new materials and novel technological applications for electronic devices and for energy transmission and storage will be emphasized. Two special sessions will be reserved for breaking discoveries in both theory and experiment, so that the latest research results may be presented. The format of the conference will include both formal presentations by experts and informal "brainstorming" sessions where free-ranging discussions will be stimulated. The conference will provide an ideal environment for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to explore the latest theoretical and experimental methods to investigate challenging questions in the physics of materials having tremendous importance to both fundamental science and technological applications. Members of underrepresented groups have been recruited as conference speakers to provide role models and potential mentors for the young scientists who will participate.