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领域面临重大挑战，而低温等离子体是许多有望为这些重大挑战提供解决方案的技术的核心。该奖项将为学生参与低温等离子体领域最重要的两年一次的会议系列之一提供支持，2016年戈登等离子体处理科学研究会议将于2016年7月24-29日在NH安多弗的普罗科特学院举行。会议将以一个综合计划为特色，突出低温等离子体科学中最尖端的科学进步，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。与会议相关的是为期一个周末的戈登研究研讨会，出席者仅限于研究生和博士后助理，允许在不具威胁性的环境中进行科学互动。该奖项将用于为参加会议和研讨会的美国学生和博士后提供注册费支持。该奖项将促进22名学生和博士后参加研讨会，以及5名学生和博士后进一步参加会议。戈登会议的特殊形式，安排了讨论会议，并在下午和晚上有充足的非正式聚会时间，将为学生和博士后提供一个很好的学习环境，并为所有与会者提供集思广益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.