Conference Support for Young Investigators at ACCGE-20; August 2 - 7, 2015; Big Sky Montana

该奖项由佛罗里达大学材料研究部生物材料项目颁发，旨在支持博士后科学家和初级教师参加“第20届美国晶体生长和外延会议（ACCGE-20）”。本次会议将与“第17届美国有机金属气相外延双年展研讨会（OMVPE-17）”和“第二届二维电子材料研讨会”一起于2015年8月2日至7日在蒙大拿州Big Sky举行。组织者的目的是确保会议的多学科特征，并涵盖不同的学术方向。仿生和生物材料研究为培养材料领域的本科生和研究生提供了一个令人兴奋和广阔的平台。它既能在视觉上吸引那些还不是专家的人，又能处理大家都熟悉的材料，比如骨头、牙齿、贝壳等。会议将向研究生和本科生开放，包括更广泛的妇女和代表性不足的少数群体的参与。会议的形式将为学生和青年科学家提供各种机会，参加顶级科学家的最新讲座，并与他们会面，展示他们的成果，参与讨论并探索未来的网络和合作。技术：这个为期五天的研讨会旨在汇集来自不同领域的研究人员，共同讨论结晶，重点是生物和仿生材料。计划的生物矿化会议将包括最先进的表征技术和计算模拟，以促进对生物结晶过程的基本理解。具体感兴趣的领域包括生物材料和仿生/仿生材料结晶中的经典与非经典结晶现象。其他感兴趣的领域包括有机-无机界面的相互作用，自组织系统，新颖的表征方法，以及天然和合成生物材料中结晶的多尺度建模。

Non-Technical: This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to University of Florida is to support postdoctoral scientists and junior faculty members to attend a conference titled "20th American Conference on Crystal Growth and Epitaxy (ACCGE-20)." This conference will be held along with "17th U.S. Biennial Workshop on Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (OMVPE-17)" and "The Second 2D Electronic Materials Symposium" at Big Sky, Montana from August 2 to 7, 2015. The aim of the organizers is to secure a multidisciplinary character of the meeting and cover different scholarly directions. Biomimetic and biomaterials research provides an exciting and broad platform for training both undergraduate and graduate students in the materials area. It is both visually appealing to those who are not yet experts, and deals with materials that everyone is familiar with, such as bones, teeth, sea shells, etc. The conference will be open for graduates and undergraduate students including broader participation of women and underrepresented minority groups. The format of the conference will provide various opportunities to students and junior scientists to attend state-of-art lectures of the top scientists and meet with them, present their results, participate in discussions and explore future networking and collaborations.Technical: This five-day symposium has been designed to bring together researchers from a diverse set of fields to discuss crystallization in general, with a focus on biological and biomimetic materials. The planned sessions on biomineralization will include state of the art characterization techniques and computational simulations in advancing fundamental understanding of biocrystallization processes. Specific areas of interest include classical versus non-classical crystallization phenomena in the crystallization of biological materials and bio-inspired/biomimetic materials. Additional areas of interest include interactions at organic - inorganic interfaces, self-organizing systems, novel characterization methodologies, and multiscale modeling of crystallization within both natural and synthetic biomaterials.