Support of the American Chemical Society Graduate Student Symposium, New Orleans, March 18-20, 2018

非技术描述：一个由佛罗里达大学化学系的六名研究生组成的团队正在美国化学会（ACS）第255届全国会议上组织一个题为？寻找我们在底层的位置：纪念理查德·费曼的研讨会。已故的理查德·费曼（Richard Feynman）是理论物理学领域的一位巨擘，他在20世纪50年代设想了一个未来，在这个未来中，物质可以在亚微观甚至原子尺度上生产和操纵。在费曼教授100岁生日的这一年，这次研讨会庆祝化学家、物理学家和工程师之间的开创性合作，这些合作使这种纳米材料变得司空见惯。研讨会的特色是由纳米科学领域的杰出教师、行业科学家和政府研究人员举办的一系列12场讲座，包括太阳能收集、原子对原子的操纵和改进可持续材料等主题。由于本次研讨会完全由学生组织，组织者将获得宝贵的培训和交流机会，这将有助于他们未来的职业生涯。此外，正在为科学领域代表性不足的群体成员提供旅行资助，使他们能够参加这次研讨会（定于3月20日）和整个ACS会议。技术细节：纳米科学已经成为21世纪的主要研究领域之一，主要是由于纳米材料理论认识的进步和实现纳米材料的合成技术的改进。第255届ACS全国会议的研究生研讨会以教育和激励与会者为目标，庆祝纳米科学的多学科性质。研究生组织者在极少的教师参与下运作，因此他们在研讨会后勤、广告和筹款方面也获得了丰富的经验。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: A team of six graduate students from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida is organizing a symposium at the 255th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) entitled, ?Finding Our Place at the Bottom: A Symposium in Memory of Richard Feynman.? The late Richard Feynman was a titanic figure in theoretical physics who, in the 1950s, envisioned a future in which materials could be produced and manipulated on a sub-microscopic and even atomic scale. In the year in which Prof. Feynman would have turned 100, this symposium celebrates the pioneering collaborations between chemists, physicists, and engineers that have made such nanomaterials commonplace. The symposium features a series of twelve lectures from preeminent faculty, industry scientists, and government researchers in the field of nanoscience, including topics such as solar energy harvesting, atom-by-atom manipulation, and improving sustainable materials. As this symposium is fully student-organized, the organizers are receiving invaluable training and networking opportunities that will aid them in their future careers. In addition, travel funding for members of underrepresented groups in the sciences is being offered to enable their access to this symposium (scheduled on March 20) and the ACS Meeting as a whole.TECHNICAL DETAILS: Nanoscience has emerged as one of the dominant fields of research in the 21st century, largely due to advances in theoretical understanding of nanomaterials and improved synthetic techniques by which they are realized. The Graduate Student Symposium at the 255th ACS National Meeting celebrates the multidisciplinary nature of nanoscience with the goal of educating and inspiring attendees. The graduate student organizers operate with minimal faculty involvement, so they are also receiving significant experience in symposium logistics, advertising, and fundraising.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.