Student Support for 4th International Summer School on Advanced Material Systems (AMS); Thessaloniki, Greece; July 1-7, 2018

第四届先进材料系统国际暑期学校（AMS）将于2018年7月1日至7日在希腊塞萨洛尼基举行。这个暑期学校遵循国际能源转换多功能材料研究所（IIMEC）建立的模型，该研究所是NSF资助的国际材料研究所，与美国和国际研究合作者合作，在德克萨斯州A M工程实验站建立。暑期学校的目的是让研究生熟悉先进复合材料和多功能材料制造，表征，测试和微观力学以及计算方法建模的最新技术。 该奖项支持美国研究生参加暑期学校的旅行。参与的研究生和研究人员将接触到先进材料系统领域的高质量，密集的教育经验。是次会议的形式将容许有充裕时间进行正式及非正式的科学讨论，目的是与来自不同国家、机构及专业范畴的参与者建立合作关系，并与同学及资深学者建立长远的国际网络。AMS暑期学校的主要目标是：（1）建立一个交流、知识库和计算实验室网格，推进先进和多功能材料的制造、表征、建模和测试研究，为所有参与者提供全球研究和国际领导经验，（2）传播商业化知识，促进研究与产业的联系;以及（3）吸引来自不同国家和研究领域的参与者，以促进国际学术环境中的互动，该奖项反映了NSF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。

The Fourth International Summer School on Advanced Material Systems (AMS) will be held July 1-7, 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece. This summer school follows the model established by The International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC), an NSF-funded International Materials Institute, established at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, in partnership with US and international research collaborators. The aim of the summer school is to familiarize graduate students with the state of the art in advanced composite and multifunctional materials manufacturing, characterization, testing and micro-mechanics, and computational methods modeling. This award supports travel for US graduate students to participate in the summer school. The participating graduate students and researchers will be exposed to a high-quality, intensive educational experience in the field of advanced material systems. The format of the meeting will allow ample time for formal and informal scientific discussions, with the aim of building collaborations with participants of different countries, institutions and areas of expertise, and building a long-lasting international network with the students' peers as well as senior scholars.The main objectives of the AMS Summer School are to: (1) establish a communication, knowledge-base, and computational-laboratory grid advancing research in manufacturing, characterization, modeling and testing of advanced and multifunctional materials, providing all participants with global research and international leadership experience, and contributing to the transformation and advancement of education on materials science and engineering to all participants; (2) communicate the knowledge of commercialization and promote the connection between research and industry; and (3) attract participants from different countries and research fields in order to foster interaction in an international academic environment, promoting scholarship and leadership in advanced material systemsThis 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.