"Interfaces in Materials, Biology, and Physiology: A symposium" to be held at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting on April 10-13, 2012 in San Fancisco, CA.

在2012年旧金山材料研究学会春季会议期间，请NSF支持举办关于材料、生物学和生理学中界面和附着的跨学科讨论。美国国家科学基金会通过本拨款提案要求支付的具体费用，详见所附预算报表，包括受邀演讲嘉宾的注册费和初级参与者的差旅费。智力优势：材料之间的有效界面在传统和生物医学工程中广泛的物理现象中提出了巨大的挑战。许多高性能合金表现出类似于在自然界和生理学中观察到的性能放大，并且将这种性能放大与材料的层次结构联系起来的科学正在成熟。然而，仔细控制各成分之间的界面和界面继续构成跨学科的理论和应用挑战，包括将复合材料机翼连接到民用飞机上的挑战，以及在肩袖再附着手术中理解和再生肌腱和骨骼之间的附着的挑战。它将汇集生命科学、物理科学和材料工程领域的专家，讨论我们对这一跨学科重大挑战的理解，以确定跨学科存在的其他主要挑战和解决方案，目标是为这一领域提供未来的方向。本次研讨会的学术价值在于解决了在该领域发展的重要阶段汇集这些跨学科专业知识以统一和确定该领域未来方向的关键需求。更广泛的影响：本次研讨会的更广泛的影响在于年轻和未来科学家的发展，研讨会的目的是启发和激励对界面研究的进一步探索。从人力资源的角度来看，该项目吸引了来自四大洲不同背景的组织者和参与者，并将专门针对刚刚开始职业生涯的个人。最后，我们希望为初级和早期职业教师，博士后研究员和研究生提供机会，在跨学科的国际研讨会上展示研究成果。我们的目标是让本次研讨会的演讲者中有一半以上是以前从未在MRS会议上发表过研究成果的科学家。从启发和激励对界面研究的进一步探究的角度来看，研讨会将作为跨学科研究广泛传播的平台。预计在整个研讨会期间将有200多名与会者。研讨会将有48个报告（27个被邀请，其中5个是初级研究人员）和15个海报报告（其中8个是学生）。

1232745GeninThe NSF support is requested to support hosting a cross-disciplinary discussion on the broad topic of interfaces and attachment in materials, biology, and physiology to be held over the duration of the 2012 Materials Re-search Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco. The specific expenses requested to be covered by the National Science Foundation through this grant proposal, as detailed in the accompanying budget statement, involve registration fees for invited speakers and travel expenses for junior participants. Intellectual merit:Effective interfaces between materials present a grand challenge across a broad range of physical phenomena within both conventional and biomedical engineering. Many high performance alloys exhibit property amplifications similar to those observed in nature and physiology, and the science of relating this property amplification to a material's hierarchical structure is gaining in maturity. However, careful control of the interfaces and interphases between constituents continues to pose theoretical and applied challenges across disciplines, ranging from challenges attaching composite wings to civil aircraft to challenges in understanding and regenerating attachments between tendon and bone in rotator cuff reattachment surgery. It will bring together experts across the life sciences, the physical sciences, and materials engineering to discuss the state of the art in our understanding of this grand challenge across disciplines, to identify additional major challenges and solutions that exist across disciplines, with the goal of providing future direction to this field. The intellectual merit of this symposium lies in addressing the critical need to bring together this cross-disciplinary expertise to unify and identify future directions for this field at an important stage of the field's development.Broader Impacts:The broader impacts of this symposium lie in the development of young and future scientists, and the symposium's aim of inspiring and motivating further inquiry into the study of interfaces. From the human resources perspective, the program draws organizers and will draw participants from diverse backgrounds from four continents, and will specifically target individuals at the beginnings of their careers. Finally, we would like to facilitate opportunities for junior and early career faculty, post doctoral fellows and graduate students to present research in an interdisciplinary, international workshop. Our objective is to have over half of the speakers in this symposium be scientists who have not previously presented their work at an MRS Meeting. From the perspective of inspiring and motivating further inquiry into the study of interfaces, the symposium will serve as a platform for the broad dissemination of research across disciplines. It is expected to have more than 200 attendees over the course of the symposium. The symposium will have 48 presentations (27 invited, with five of these being junior investigators) and 15 poster presenters (8 of which are students).