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

非技术摘要：国家科学基金会根据智力价值(促进知识的潜力)和更广泛的影响(造福社会的潜力)选择其资助的研究。科学家们认识到，NSF定义的更广泛的影响功绩标准对于建立科学蓬勃发展所需的公众支持至关重要。该项目创建了一个网站，将综合凝聚态物理的广泛影响活动，该领域对社会产生了革命性的影响，导致了晶体管、计算机存储器和发光二极管(LED)的发展。通过同时充当资源和储存库，它将使更广泛的影响活动的实施更加高效和有效。范围更广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定义的更广泛的影响力优秀标准对于建立科学蓬勃发展所需的公众支持至关重要。凝聚态物理学家对我们的社会产生了变革性的影响，这些影响往往是公众看不见的。宣传我们研究的社会效益往往是一项挑战，因为《议定书》缔约方会议由许多独立的研究小组组成，对这些小组来说，有效地参与公共领域并不一定是强项。其他更广泛的影响活动，如动员K-12学生和教师提高科学素养，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，持续时间很短。最近，由国家科学基金会凝聚态物理计划支持的PI参加了一次关于更广泛影响的研讨会，结果成立了一个委员会，以超越单个小组本身所能完成的方式，推动CMP社区的更广泛影响。该项目资助了该委员会的第一项倡议，即创建一个网站，以提高《议定书》/《公约》/《公约》缔约方会议的知名度，并使更广泛影响的实施更有效率。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就更广泛的影响活动进行交流的私人方面。

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.