Travel Grant for Eighth Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference to be held in Israel in 2014

1248189克雷默这项国际旅行补助金寻求支持22名美国学术代表参加2014年在以色列举行的第八届东地中海化学工程会议(EMCC8)。这次会议将有以色列、希腊、土耳其、意大利、保加利亚、罗马尼亚和美国参加。来自其他东地中海国家的学术化学工程师也将被邀请。以色列理工学院化学工程系主任亚钦·科恩教授将主持本次会议。学术价值：EMCC8将促进来自世界各地的研究合作，并通过互动论坛加强化学工程方面的研究和教学。这次会议将促进广泛的科学和个人交流，类似于戈登研究会议。美国将受益于参与国在运输现象、分子动力学、计算机模拟、生物技术、反应工程和分离技术等研究领域的高水平专业知识。这些领域与水净化、环境修复、能源生产、制药开发、食品生产等有很大的相关性。与以往的会议一样，预计与会者将包括来自美国的大约25名学术化学工程师，来自东道国(以色列)的50名，来自意大利、希腊、土耳其的至少20名，以及来自保加利亚和罗马尼亚的与会者。此外，预计将有大量来自东地中海参与国的研究生参加。由史蒂夫·克雷默(伦斯勒理工学院)、尼克·阿博特(威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校)和亚历克斯·卡茨(加州大学伯克利分校)组成的美国EMCC协调委员会将挑选一批资深和年轻的研究人员进行出色的研究，并致力于与其他参与国的调查人员建立和继续合作。还将向五名美国与会者提供特殊的旅行补贴，让他们到以色列和其他参与国访问和演讲，以发展和/或促进合作。广泛影响：在以往会议取得成功的基础上，参加EMCC8的美国工程师将受到重大而广泛的影响。前三届EMCC会议在让美国、土耳其、以色列和希腊学者了解他们的研究兴趣和能力以及促进研究合作方面产生了重大影响。第四、第五和第六次会议通过将会议扩大到包括意大利、保加利亚和罗马尼亚，提供了进一步的机会。在希腊举行的第七届杰出会议还包括来自沙特阿拉伯的研究人员参加。这些会议为参与国教职员工就课程问题进行富有成效的讨论提供了极好的论坛。除了美国与会者将与其他国家的人进行个人接触外，促进研究和教学思想和人员的交流，并在美国化学工程师和东地中海国家的化学工程师之间建立研究合作将有利于美国的利益。将作出重大努力，将年轻和代表性不足的教职员工纳入美国参与者群体。也有可能像过去一样，非正式地招聘潜在的研究生。

1248189CramerThis international travel grant seeks support for 22 U.S. academic representatives to attend the 8th Eastern Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference (EMCC8) to be held in Israel in 2014. This conference will involve the participation of Israel, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and the United States. Academic chemical engineers from other Eastern Mediterranean countries will also be invited. Professor Yachin Cohen, Head of the Chemical Engineering Department at Technion (Israel) will be the Chair of this conference. Intellectual Merit: The EMCC8 will promote research collaborations from around the world and enhance research and teaching in chemical engineering through interactive forums. This conference will foster extensive scientific and personal exchanges similar to a Gordon Research Conference. The U.S. will benefit from exposure to the high-level of expertise from participating countries in research areas such as transport phenomena, molecular dynamics, computer simulations, biotechnology, reaction engineering and separation technologies. These areas have great relevance to water purification, environmental remediation, energy production, pharmaceutical development, food production, and more. As in previous conferences, it is expected the participants will be made up of approximately 25 academic chemical engineers from the U.S., 50 from the host country (Israel), at least 20 from Italy, Greece, Turkey, and participantsfrom Bulgaria and Romania. In addition, it is expected that a large number of graduate students will attend from participating Eastern Mediterranean Countries. The U.S. EMCC coordinating committee consisting of Steve Cramer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Nick Abbott (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Alex Katz (University of California-Berkeley) will select a combination of senior and young investigators who produce excellent research and are committed to establishing and continuing collaborations with investigators from other participating countries. Special travel supplements will also be provided to five U.S. participants to visit and lecture in Israel and other participating countries to develop and/or promote collaborations.Broader Impacts: Based on the success of previous conferences, there will be a significant and broad impact on the U.S. engineers attending the EMCC8. The first three EMCC Conferences have had major impacts in acquainting U.S., Turkish, Israeli, and Greek academics with their research interests and capabilities and in fostering research collaborations. The fourth, fifth and sixth conferences provided further opportunities by expanding the conference to include Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. The seventh outstanding conference in Greece also included participation from researchers from Saudi Arabia. These conferences have provided excellent forums for fruitful discussions on curriculum issues among faculty of the participating countries. In addition to the personal contacts that the U.S. participants will make with people from the other countries, it will be beneficial to U.S. interests to foster exchanges of research and teaching ideas and of personnel, and establish research collaborations between chemical engineers from the U.S. and chemical engineers from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Significant efforts will be made to include both young and underrepresented faculty in the group of U.S. participants. It is also likely that recruitment of potential graduate students may occur informally, as in the past.