2016 Plasma Processing Science: Plasmas with Complex Interactions: Exploiting the Non-Equilibrium.

人类在能源、人类健康和环境可持续性方面面临着重大挑战，低温等离子体是许多技术的核心，有望为这些重大挑战提供解决方案。该奖项将为学生参加低温等离子体领域最重要的两年一度的会议系列之一提供支持，2016年戈登等离子体加工科学研究会议将于2016年7月24日至29日在新罕布什尔州安多弗的普罗克特学院举行。 会议将以一个全面的计划为特色，将突出低温等离子体科学中最前沿的科学进展，并将探索低温等离子体技术在许多重大社会挑战中的应用。 与会议相关的是一个为期一周的戈登研究研讨会，其特点是出席仅限于研究生和博士后助理，允许在一个不具威胁性的环境中进行科学互动。该奖项将用于为美国学生和博士后参加会议和研讨会提供注册费支持。 该奖项将促进22名学生和博士后参加研讨会，并进一步促进5名学生和博士后参加会议。戈登会议的特殊形式，有计划的讨论会和下午和晚上的非正式聚会的充足时间，将为学生和博士后提供一个很好的学习环境，以及为所有与会者提供头脑风暴和创造性思维的肥沃氛围。

Humanity faces significant grand challenges in the areas of energy, human health, and environmental sustainability, and low temperature plasmas are at the heart of many technologies promising to provide solutions for these grand challenges. This award will provide support for students to participate in one of the most important biennial conference series in the field of low temperature plasmas, the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science to be held July 24-29, 2016, at Proctor Academy, Andover, NH. The conference will feature a comprehensive program that will highlight the most cutting edge scientific advances in low temperature plasma science and will explore the applications of low temperature plasma technology relative to many grand societal challenges. Associated with the conference is a weekend-long Gordon Research Seminar, which features attendance limited to graduate students and post-doctoral associates, allowing for scientific interaction in a non-threatening environment.The award will be used to provide registration fee support for US students and postdocs to attend the conference and the seminar. Seminar participation of 22 students and postdocs, and further conference participation of 5 students and postdocs will be facilitated by this award. The special format of the Gordon Conferences, with programmed discussion sessions and ample time for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, will provide for a great learning environment for the students and postdocs, as well as a fertile atmosphere of brainstorming and creative thinking for all of the attendees.