FOCAPD19 High Performance Design:Travel Support Grant for Junior Researchers

这笔赠款将为35名美国初级研究人员(助理教授、博士后助理和研究生)提供部分旅费，以参加将于2019年7月14日至18日在科罗拉多州铜山举行的2019年计算机辅助工艺设计基础(FOCAPD-19)会议。FOCAPD-19将汇集工艺设计领域最重要的国际研究人员。高性能计算的融合以及机器学习和优化的进步正在深刻地影响着工艺设计。在工艺设计领域，对成本效益、能源效率和高功能设计的需求。与此同时，人们越来越渴望快速创新，将科学进步转化为工程产品。此外，社会对零事故化学品生产的需求与对产品故障的低容忍度相结合，特别是在制药行业。全球竞争和采用简化的数字信息管理系统将从最初的分子发现到过程实施的每一个日益扩大的设计问题联系在一起，也推动了设计过程本身的高性能。由这笔赠款资助的美国初级研究人员将有机会与来自世界各地的学术和工业研究人员互动，并就工艺设计、研究和教育的最新进展交换意见。主办方希望吸引代表人数不足的群体的成员，否则他们可能无法参加会议。初级研究人员将有机会相互交流，并与该领域更有经验的研究人员互动，这将对他们未来的专业发展产生积极影响。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 grant will provide partial travel support for 35 junior US-based researchers (assistant professors, postdoctoral associates and graduate students) to attend the 2019 Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD-19) Conference that will be held from July 14 to 18, 2019, in Copper Mountain, Colorado. FOCAPD-19 will bring together the most important international researchers in the field of process design. Process design is being profoundly impacted by the convergence of high-performance computing and advances in machine learning and optimization. In the field of process design the demand is for cost-effective, energy efficient and highly functional designs. This is coupled with an increased desire for rapid innovation to translate advances in science into engineered products. Furthermore, the demands of society are for zero-accident chemical production combined with a low tolerance for product faults, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry. The design process itself is also being driven to high performance by global competition and adoption of streamlined digital information management systems that link every increasing scope of design problems, from the initial molecular discovery to process implementation. The junior US-based researchers supported by this grant will have the opportunity to interact with academic and industrial researchers from around the world and exchange ideas on the latest advances on process design research and education. The organizers expect to attract members of under-represented groups that they may otherwise be unable to attend the Conference. The junior researchers will have an opportunity to interact with each other and with more experienced researchers in the field, which will positively influence their future professional development.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.