Travel support for invited speakers to attend 86th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium at Johns Hopkins University, June 10-13, 2012

该奖项将部分支付受邀参加2012年6月10日至13日在约翰霍普金斯大学举行的第86届ACS胶体和表面科学研讨会的演讲嘉宾的差旅费用。邀请演讲者的参与对于会议的成功至关重要，因为它可以吸引最好的演讲，并使研究生与会者接触到胶体和表面科学领域的最新技术。2012年约翰霍普金斯大学胶体和表面科学研讨会的学术价值在于，它为与现有复杂流体和先进材料应用以及新兴纳米和生物技术相关的胶体和表面科学提供了一个从根本上交流新见解的论坛。由于其范围广泛，该会议通常会吸引来自不同学科（例如化学，化学工程，材料科学，物理等）以及几乎所有主要美国学术机构和许多领先的国际机构的500-700名与会者。来自理论、计算和实验小组的贡献，以及来自工业、政府和学术界等所有部门的科学家和工程师的参与，进一步体现了与会者和会谈的多样性。本次研讨会为包括研究生在内的所有与会者提供了一个机会，以传播他们自己的研究成果，并了解受邀的全体会议和主题演讲嘉宾的最新工作，他们代表了国际上公认的从事涉及胶体和表面科学与工程问题的最佳研究人员。该提案的更广泛影响是，来自NSF的资金将用于确保顶级研究人员参加我们的研讨会，从而保证向所有与会者传播最先进的研究成果，并对研究生与会者的教育和培训产生影响。这个会议传统上是研究生的一个很好的论坛，我们预计大约四分之一的与会者将是研究生，他们会就他们的博士项目做口头报告或海报。通过获得国内外最好的演讲者的旅行支持，这种支持符合国家科学基金会的使命，即传播国家科学基金会支持的研究成果，教育和培训学生，以创造明天的高科技劳动力。所要求的资金将通过降低注册费用来支持受邀演讲者的旅费，以便他们能够参加会议，并优先考虑传统上在科学和工程学科中代表性不足的群体。

1201597PI: BevanThis award will partially cover travel costs associated with invited speakers attending the 86th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium at Johns Hopkins University, June 10-13, 2012. Invited speaker participation is critical to the meeting's success in terms of attracting the best contributed talks and exposing graduate student attendees to the state of the art in the fields of colloid and surface science.The intellectual merit of the 2012 colloid and surface science symposium at Johns Hopkins University is that it provides a forum for communicating fundamentally new insights into colloidal and surface science with relevance to existing complex fluids and advanced materials applications as well as emerging nano- and bio- technologies. Due to its broad scope, this meeting typically attracts 500-700 attendees from diverse disciplines (e.g. Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, etc.) and nearly all major US academic institutions and many leading international institutions. The diversity of the attendees and the talks is further represented by contributions from theoretical, computational, and experimental groups and the participation of scientists and engineers from all sectors including industry, government, and academia. This symposium provides an opportunity for all attendees, including graduate students, to disseminate their own research findings and to learn about the latest work of invited plenary and keynote speakers who represent the best internationally recognized investigators working on problems involving colloid and surface science and engineering.The broader impacts of this proposal are that funds from the NSF will be used to ensure the participation and attendance of premier researchers at our symposium, and thus guarantee dissemination of state-of-the-art research to all attendees as well as an impact on the education and training of graduate student attendees. This meeting has traditionally been a good forum for graduate students, and we expect that about a quarter of the meeting attendees will be graduate students presenting oral presentations or posters on their PhD projects. By acquiring travel support the best domestic and international speakers, this support is in line with NSF's mission to disseminate research findings from NSF supported research and educate and train students to create tomorrow's high tech work force. The requested funds will support invited speaker travel via reduced registration costs so they can participate in the meeting with preference given to groups traditionally under-represented in science and engineering discipline.