"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.

1232745基因组学NSF的支持是为了支持主办一个跨学科的讨论，在材料，生物学和生理学的接口和附件的广泛主题将在2012年材料研究协会春季会议在旧金山弗朗西斯科举行。如所附预算说明中详细说明的那样，国家科学基金会需要通过这项赠款提案支付的具体费用包括受邀演讲者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的广泛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质放大，并且将这种性质放大与材料的分级结构相关联的科学正在变得成熟。然而，仔细控制成分之间的界面和界面，继续提出跨学科的理论和应用挑战，从将复合材料机翼连接到民用飞机的挑战，到在肩袖再附着手术中理解和再生肌腱和骨之间附着的挑战。它将汇集生命科学，物理科学和材料工程领域的专家，讨论我们对跨学科这一重大挑战的理解的最新水平，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。本次研讨会的智力价值在于解决的迫切需要，汇集这种跨学科的专业知识，统一和确定未来的方向，在该领域的发展的重要阶段，该领域的。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的科学家的发展，和研讨会的目的是激发和激励进一步调查的接口的研究。从人力资源的角度来看，该计划吸引了组织者，并将吸引来自四大洲不同背景的参与者，并将专门针对职业生涯初期的个人。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。我们的目标是在本次研讨会上有超过一半的发言者是以前没有在MRS会议上介绍过他们的工作的科学家。从启发和激励进一步探究界面研究的角度来看，研讨会将成为跨学科研究广泛传播的平台。预计研讨会期间将有200多名与会者。研讨会将有48场演讲（27场受邀演讲，其中5场是初级研究员）和15场海报演讲（其中8场是学生）。

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).