Workshop: Ninth International Workshop on Modeling in Crystal Growth (IWMCG-9); Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; 21-24 October 2018

第九届晶体生长建模国际研讨会(IWMCG-6)将汇集来自美国、欧洲、亚洲和世界其他地区的学术界和产业界的顶尖资深和有前途的初级研究人员，以确定共同的优先事项，允许交流新思想，并促进未来的合作工作。这次研讨会于2018年10月21日至24日举行，理想的地点是位于美国和亚洲之间的夏威夷，它借鉴了三年一度的成功会议的历史。这一奖项将支持另外五名美国年轻研究人员(研究生、博士后研究员和年轻教师)参加研讨会，在那里他们将接触到尖端研究和该领域的广泛国际社区。研讨会的主题是晶体生长，这一领域已被美国国家研究委员会确定为具有重要战略意义且需要加强的领域。该领域的进展将影响先进的制造工艺，影响信息、能源、国防和探测器系统的电子和光子设备，精细化学品和药品的生产等。这些晶基系统的改进将对关系到国家富强、国防和健康的广泛领域产生积极影响。除了促进这一领域的研究人员之间的讨论和合作外，这次研讨会的支持将促进一个重要和及时的研究课题。晶体生长本身是非常有趣和重要的，而对这种过程进行建模是本研讨会的重点，本质上是跨学科的和要求很高的。从根本上讲，研究晶体生长对热力学相变、相关的自组装和图案形成现象以及生长的动力学和输运限制有重要的理解。从技术的角度来看，成功的晶体生长过程代表着一个典型的先进制造系统，其成功的建模以及随后的理解、控制和优化具有内在的挑战性和价值。NSF的支持将使美国的年轻研究人员有机会通过在该领域的国际接触和未来的合作来促进他们的职业生涯。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Ninth International Workshop on Modeling in Crystal Growth (IWMCG-6) will bring together top senior and promising junior researchers of both academe and industry from the United States, Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world to identify common priorities, allow the exchange of new ideas, and foster future collaborative work. This workshop, held from October 21-24, 2018, and ideally situated mid-way between the United States and Asia in Hawaii, builds upon a history of successful triennial meetings on this topic. This award will support five additional U.S.-based young researchers (graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and young faculty) to participate in the symposium, where they will be exposed to cutting-edge research and to the broadly-based, international community of this field. The topic of the workshop addresses an area, crystal growth, that has been identified by the National Research Council as strategically important and in need of strengthening in the U.S. Advances in this area will impact advanced manufacturing processes that affect electronic and photonic devices for information, energy, defense, and detector systems, the production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and more. Improvements in these crystal-base systems will favorably impact wide-ranging domains relevant to national prosperity, defense, and health.In addition to promoting discourse and collaboration among researchers in this area, the support of this workshop will promote an important and timely research topic. Crystal growth is itself profoundly interesting and significant, and modeling such processes, the focus of this workshop, is inherently interdisciplinary and demanding. From a fundamental vantage point, studying crystal growth yields important understanding of thermodynamic phase change, associated self-assembly and pattern-formation phenomena, and kinetic and transport limitations to growth. From a technological viewpoint, a successful crystal growth process represents a quintessential advanced manufacturing system, whose successful modeling and subsequent understanding, control, and optimization are inherently challenging and valuable. NSF support will allow young researchers in the U.S. an opportunity to advance their careers through international exposure and future collaboration in this area.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.