Collaborative Research: RESOURCE AND REPOSITORY: BROADER IMPACTS OF THE NSF-CMP PROGRAM

非技术摘要：美国国家科学基金会根据智力价值（知识进步的潜力）和更广泛的影响（造福社会的潜力）来选择它资助的研究。科学家们认识到，NSF定义的更广泛影响的价值标准对于建立科学繁荣所需的公众支持至关重要。 该项目创建了一个网站，将巩固凝聚态物理学领域的广泛影响活动，该领域对社会产生了变革性影响，导致晶体管，计算机存储器和发光二极管（LED）的发展。通过充当资源和存储库，它将使更广泛影响活动的实施更加高效和有效。 广泛的影响活动包括科学突破，专利发明和由NSF资助的初创公司。它还展示了科学家们的工作，他们是各自领域的热情大使，进行公开演讲，增加多样性，为学生和教师开发科学课程，并激励下一代追求科学事业。技术摘要：NSF定义的更广泛影响力价值标准对于建立科学蓬勃发展所需的公众支持至关重要。凝聚态物理学家（CMP）对我们的社会产生了变革性的影响，而这些影响往往是公众看不到的。传播我们研究的社会效益往往是一个挑战，因为CMP由许多独立的研究小组组成，对他们来说，有效参与公共竞技场并不一定是一个强项。其他更广泛的影响活动，如让K-12学生和教师参与提高科学素养和加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的劳动力，可能非常有效;但往往是孤立的，持续时间短。最近一次由NSF凝聚态物理计划支持的PI参加的关于更广泛影响的研讨会，导致了一个委员会的成立，以超越单个团体自身所能实现的方式推动CMP社区的更广泛影响。该项目为该委员会的第一项举措提供资金，即创建一个网站，以提高失踪人员委员会的知名度，并使更广泛的影响得到更有效的实施。该网站有两个方面，一个是向最广泛的受众传播令人兴奋的科学发现及其使能技术的公共方面，另一个是在凝聚态研究人员之间传播更广泛的影响活动的私人方面。

Non-technical abstract: The National Science Foundation chooses the research that it funds based on Intellectual Merit (the potential to advance knowledge) and Broader Impacts (the potential to benefit society). Scientists recognize that the Broader Impact merit criteria as defined by NSF are essential for building the public support necessary for science to flourish. This project creates a website that will consolidate the wide range of broader impact activities in Condensed Matter Physics, a field that has had a transformative impact on society, leading to the development of transistors, computer memory and light emitting diodes (LEDs). By acting both as a resource and a repository, it will make the implementation of broader impact activities both more efficient and effective. The wide range of broader impact activities include scientific breakthroughs, patented inventions and start up companies made possible by NSF funding. It also features the work of scientists who are enthusiastic ambassadors for their field, giving public talks, increasing diversity, developing scientific curriculum for students and teachers, and inspiring the next generation to pursue careers in science.Technical abstract: The Broader Impact merit criteria as defined by NSF are essential for building the public support necessary for science to flourish. Condensed matter physicists (CMP) have made transformative impacts on our society that are often invisible to the public. Communicating the societal benefits of our research is often a challenge because CMP consists of many independent research groups for whom effective engagement in the public arena is not necessarily a forte. Other broader impact activities, such as engaging K-12 students and teachers to increase scientific literacy and strengthen the workforce in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, may be very effective; but are often isolated and short in duration. A recent workshop on broader impacts attended by PIs supported by the NSF Condensed Matter Physics Program, resulted in the formation of a committee to advance the broader impacts of the CMP community in ways that go beyond what an individual group can accomplish on its own. This project funds the first initiative from this committee, the creation of a website to increase the visibility of CMP and to make the implementation of broader impacts more efficient. The site has two sides, a public side for communication of exciting scientific discoveries and their enabling technologies to the broadest audience and a private side for communication about broader impact activities among condensed matter researchers.