Travel Grant: 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling; Baltimore, Maryland; October 19-22, 2020

这笔赠款为第十届国际多尺度材料建模会议提供旅费，该会议将于2020年10月19-22日在马里兰州巴尔的摩的约翰·霍普金斯大学校园举行。会议将由乔治梅森大学、乔治城大学和马里兰大学联合主办。多尺度材料建模是计算力学、计算生物力学和计算材料科学的一个分支，它将现有的和新兴的跨学科领域的方法结合起来，跨越不同的长度和时间尺度，将复杂材料系统固有的现象联系起来。MMM提供了关于材料(或生物)如何变形和/或调整其形式和功能以响应不同的机械、电、磁或环境刺激的直接见解，并将其追溯到材料结构和分子(或细胞)水平的机制。MMM对于加速开发和制造具有卓越性能的可靠材料也是不可或缺的，它通过摆脱经验试错技术，转向最先进的和经过实验验证的多尺度计算方法。这笔赠款将帮助通过奖学金大幅补贴50名研究生和25名初级研究人员的旅费，重点是代表性不足的群体，以参加、展示他们的工作，以及与定期参加这次会议的MMM社区的领导人互动。这些旅行奖学金还将有助于促进/突出NSF资助的专注于MMM的研究。这个为期四天的会议汇集了来自全球学术界、国家实验室和行业的研究人员，他们具有力学、生物力学和机械生物学、材料、先进制造、计算力学和科学方面的跨学科研究背景，分享该领域的新进展，并确定现有和未来的挑战。每天将举行一次长达一小时的全体会议，两次45分钟的半全体会议，以及9至13次平行的5.5小时的技术会议。每次技术会议将由多个20分钟的演讲和30分钟的特邀演讲组成。此外，还将举行两次单独的晚间海报活动，其中将举行学生海报比赛。本次会议的结果将以几期同行评议的期刊特刊的形式发布，其中将以几篇会议文章为特色。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 provides travel support for the 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, which will be held at the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 19-22, 2020. The conference will be jointly hosted by George Mason University, Georgetown University, and the University of Maryland. Multiscale materials modeling (MMM) is a branch of computational mechanics, computational biomechanics, and computational materials science in which existing and emerging methods from interdisciplinary fields are combined to bridge phenomena, which are inherent to complex material systems, across different length and time scales. MMM provides direct insights on how materials (or living matter) deform and/or adapt their form and function in response to different mechanical, electrical, magnetic, or environmental exciters, and trace this to material structure and molecular (or cellular) level mechanisms. MMM is also indispensable for expediting the development and manufacturing of reliable materials with superior performance by moving away from empirical trial-and-error techniques, to state-of-the-art and experimentally verified multi-scale computational methods. This grant will help to considerably subsidize travel costs, through scholarships, for 50 graduate students and 25 junior researchers, with emphasis on under-representative groups, to participate, showcase their work, as well as interact with leaders in the MMM community who regularly attend this conference. These travel fellowships will also help promote/highlight NSF-funded research focused on MMM.This four-day conference brings together researchers from academia, national laboratories, and industry from across the globe with interdisciplinary research backgrounds in mechanics, biomechanics and mechanobiology, materials, advanced manufacturing, and computational mechanics and sciences to share new advancements in the field and identify existing and future challenges. Each day there will be an hour-long plenary session, two 45 minutes semi-plenary sessions, and 5.5 hours of 9 to 13 parallel technical sessions. Each technical session will be composed of multiple 20 minutes contributed presentations and 30 minutes invited presentations. There will also be two separate evening poster sessions in which a student poster competition will be held. The outcome of this conference will be disseminated in the form of several peer reviewed journal special issues that would feature several conference articles.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.