Workshop -- Support to Students to Attend IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Conferences, Montreal, July 14-16, 2014

该项目将为参加2014年7月14-16日在蒙特利尔举行的IEEE光子学学会夏季专题会议的学生提供资金支持。专题会议提供了一个独特的论坛，来自同一领域的学术界，国家实验室，工业和政府实验室的成员将在一个高度互动的环境中聚集在一起，促进积极的跨学科讨论。此外，研讨会将通过在学术界、工业界和国家实验室之间建立协同作用，确定主题领域未来研究的关键战略方向，并有望广泛影响跨学科的科学努力。该计划还将在会议上赞助学生海报会议和海报展示奖。夏季专题会议是由IEEE主办的关于光子科学、技术和应用的令人兴奋的新领域的主要会议系列。会议还将为今后的研究确定广泛的方向，并将影响会议所涉及的五个专题领域的跨学科科学努力。专题会议所涵盖的研究领域是ECCS部门许多当前项目的相当大的兴趣。NSF的支持将极大地促进学生对会议的参与，并为学生提供一个独特的机会，让他们了解光子学研究的新兴领域，并在一个亲密的环境中与学术界和工业界的领导人进行互动。研究生/本科生的参与，特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的学生，将利用国家科学基金的资金来部分支付注册和旅行费用。在今年的夏季专题会议上讨论的主题涵盖了广泛的相关新兴研究领域，从材料到器件，集成光子学和系统。会议将涵盖五个主题领域：中波红外集成光子学（MWIP）、功能元和二维材料（FMTM）、纳米线材料和集成光子学（NWIP）、非线性光信号处理（NOSP）和用于高容量传输的空分复用技术（SDMT）。FMTM主题将涵盖超材料的进展，重点是功能结构和器件配置，以及二维材料，包括石墨烯和其他二维材料，以及它们在光子学中的令人兴奋的潜力。NWIP主题将涵盖纳米线相关材料和器件，以及异质集成。MWIP专题将集中讨论集成光子技术、光学物理和中红外光子学的新兴应用趋势。NOSP主题将涵盖传统和新兴材料，以及用于NOSP的各种纳米光子平台和先进格式和算法。SDMT社区将分享与SDM相关的所有领域的令人兴奋的进展，从设备到系统集成。这些主题由各自领域的专家提出，并由IEEE光子学学会选择，代表了光子学界认为最重要和最深入研究的领域。

The program will provide financial support for student participants to attend the IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meetings to be held in Montreal on July 14-16, 2014. The Topical Meetings provide a unique forum where members from academia, national labs, industry, and government labs working in the same field will convene in a highly interactive environment to foster active cross-disciplinary discussions. In addition, the workshop will define key strategic directions for future research in the topical areas by creating synergies between academia, industry and national laboratories, and is expected to broadly impact interdisciplinary scientific efforts. The program will also sponsor a student poster session and poster presentation awards at the conference. The Summer Topical Meetings are the premier conference series hosted by IEEE for exciting, new areas in photonic science, technology, and applications. The Meetings will also set broad directions for future research and will impact interdisciplinary scientific efforts in the five topical areas covered by the meetings. The research fields covered by the topical meetings are of considerable interest to many current programs of the ECCS division. The NSF support is expected to significantly promote student participation in the conference, and provide a unique opportunity for the students to learn about emerging fields in photonics research and to interact with leaders from both academia and industry in an intimate environment. Participation of graduate/undergraduate students, in particular those from underrepresented groups, will be fostered leveraging NSF funds to partially cover registration and travel expenses.The topics to be discussed in this year's Summer Topical Meetings span a broad range in related emerging areas of research, from materials to devices, integrated photonics, and systems. The conferences will cover five topical areas: Midwave Infrared Integrated Photonics (MWIP), Functional Meta- and Two-dimensional Materials (FMTM), Nanowire Materials and Integrated Photonics (NWIP), Nonlinear-Optical Signal Processing (NOSP), and Space-division Multiplexing technologies for high capacity transmission (SDMT). The FMTM topic will cover advances both in metamaterials, with focus on functional structures and device configurations, and in two-dimensional materials including graphene and other 2D materials, and their exciting potentials in photonics. The NWIP topic will cover nanowire related materials and devices, as well as heterogeneous integration. The MWIP topic will focus on integrated photonic technologies, optical physics, and emerging application trends of mid-IR photonics. The NOSP topic will span both traditional and emerging materials, as well as various nanophotonic platforms and advanced format and algorithms used for NOSP. The SDMT community will share the exciting advances in all areas related to SDM, from devices to system integration. These topics, proposed by experts in the respective areas and selected by the IEEE Photonics Society, represent some of the most important and intensively investigated fields as deemed by the photonics community.