Support for Workshop and Mentoring of Junior Researchers at the US National Combustion Meeting

该奖项是为了支持2019年3月24-27日美国国家燃烧会议期间举行的三项外展活动。这些活动包括燃烧研究人员的早期职业研讨会、指导混合者和燃烧中的女性午餐会。这些活动的目标是将早期职业燃烧研究人员社区聚集在一起，并组成行动委员会，鼓励职业早期参与燃烧研究社区。在美国，近70%的能源转换是通过燃烧完成的。因此，燃烧科学的进步对社会至关重要。与会者将进一步发展四个优先项目，包括教育和实践社区，发展导师计划，跨学科合作和开源共享，以及公共出行。燃烧是发电的关键技术，这一点将在未来几十年保持不变。然而，燃烧研究界面临着各种技术和非技术挑战。参与者将确定挑战，对职业生涯早期的研究人员进行关于这些挑战的教育，并讨论可能的解决方案。围绕技术问题的讨论将包括为未来的工作集思广益，可能是跨学科的研究领域。另一方面，还将讨论各种非技术性问题，包括对职业生涯早期教职员工的指导和留住具有不同背景的有才华的研究人员。拟议的外展活动的结果预计将有助于建立一个更具生产力的燃烧研究社区。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。

This award is to support three outreach activities held during the US National Combustion Meeting, March 24-27, 2019. These activities include an Early Career Workshop for Combustion Researchers, a Mentoring Mixer, and a Women in Combustion Luncheon. The goal of these activities is to bring together a community of early-career combustion researchers and form action committees to encourage early-career participation in the combustion research community. In the U.S. nearly 70% of energy conversion is accomplished by combustion. Hence the advancement in combustion science is crucial to the society. The participants will further develop four high-priority items, including education and communities of practice, development of mentorship programs, cross-disciplinary collaboration and open-source sharing, and public outreach.Combustion is a key technology for power generation, and this will remain the same for decades to come. However, the combustion research community is facing various technical and non-technical challenges. The participants will identify challenges, educate the early-career researchers about these challenges, and discuss possible solutions. Discussion around technical issues will include brainstorming of novel, possibly cross-disciplinary research areas for future work. On the other hand, various non-technical issues will also be discussed, including mentoring of early-career faculty members and retention of talented researchers of diverse backgrounds. Results of the proposed outreach activities are expected to help build a more productive combustion research community.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.