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

该资助为第10届多尺度材料建模国际会议提供差旅支持，该会议将于2020年10月19日至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、乔治敦大学和马里兰大学共同主办。多尺度材料建模（MMM）是计算力学、计算生物力学和计算材料科学的一个分支，其中跨学科领域的现有和新兴方法相结合，以跨越不同长度和时间尺度，弥合复杂材料系统固有的现象。MMM提供了关于材料（或生物物质）如何变形和/或适应不同机械、电、磁或环境激励因素的形式和功能的直接见解，并将其追溯到材料结构和分子（或细胞）水平机制。通过从经验试错技术转向最先进的、经过实验验证的多尺度计算方法，MMM对于加速具有卓越性能的可靠材料的开发和制造也是不可或缺的。这笔赠款将通过奖学金为50名研究生和25名初级研究人员提供相当大的旅费补贴，重点放在代表性不足的群体上，让他们参加会议，展示他们的工作，并与定期参加本次会议的MMM社区领导人进行互动。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学术界，国家实验室和行业的研究人员来自世界各地的力学，生物力学和机械生物学，材料，先进制造，计算力学和科学的跨学科研究背景，分享在该领域的新进展，并确定现有和未来的挑战。每天将举行一小时的全体会议，两次45分钟的半全体会议，以及5.5小时的9至13次平行技术会议。每次技术会议将由多个20分钟的专题报告和30分钟的邀请报告组成。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。这次会议的成果将以若干同行评议的期刊特刊的形式传播，其中将刊登若干会议文章。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.