Seventh Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium: A Unique Opportunity for U.S.-Arab Scientific Exchange and Collaboration

许多阿拉伯国家在科学技术方面进行了大量投资，拥有独特的设施和资源。然而，美国研究人员了解该地区研究成果的机制很少。这次会议为美国科学家与中东有前途的年轻研究人员互动提供了一个难得的机会，以发展新的想法和方法，应用于正在进行的研究，并发现合作的机会。该项目将帮助支持将于2019年秋季在埃及亚历山大举行的第七届阿拉伯-美国人前沿项目系列会议。该活动将为大约40名美国早期职业科学家提供机会，参加为期三天的会议，总人数约为100人，旨在：加强美国和阿拉伯青年研究人员之间的科学对话和交流；鼓励跨学科技术和方法的转移，加强美国和中东/北非地区内外的科学和工程合作，并赋予年轻科学家、工程师和医疗专业人员在各自领域内外担任领导角色的能力。通过竞争性的申请程序选择参与者，确保研究活跃的科学家和工程师的会议，他们准备好利用会议上发展的思想和关系。该活动由亚历山大图书馆和埃及科学研究与技术学院共同组织，并得到了国家科学基金会的大力支持。会议有意将重点放在几个不直接相关的主题上，以鼓励参与者在他们的研究领域之外建立联系，并促进跨学科的对话，从而可能提供新的、意想不到的见解。在以前的研讨会上，与会者强调了这种广泛的跨学科性，作为会议的一个智力亮点。本次会议的重点领域是由志愿者组织委员会制定的，代表了中东拥有宝贵专门知识并正在投入重要资源的全球重要议题。所有五个主题都代表了需要多学科见解的研究挑战。传感技术-人工智能-水-传染病-社区复原力会议期间形成的合作工作思路的进一步发展将得到小额合作赠款的促进，与会者可在会后提出申请。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。

Many Arab countries are making significant investments in science and technology and have unique facilities and resources. However, there are few mechanisms for U.S. researchers to learn about research efforts in this region. This meeting provides an exceptional opportunity for U.S. scientists to interact with promising young researchers in the Middle East to develop new ideas and approaches to apply to ongoing research and discover opportunities for collaboration. This project will help support the seventh conference of the Arab-American Frontiers program series, to be held in Alexandria, Egypt in fall 2019. The event will provide an opportunity for approximately 40 early-career US scientists to attend a three-day conference of approximately 100 total attendees that seeks to: enhance scientific dialogue and exchange between young US and Arab researchers; encourage the transfer of techniques and approaches across disciplines, strengthen science and engineering collaboration within and beyond the US and the Middle East/North Africa region, and also empower young scientists, engineers and medical professionals to assume leadership roles in their fields and beyond. Participants are selected through a competitive application process, ensuring a meeting of research-active scientists and engineers who are ready to capitalize on the ideas and relationships developed at the conference. The event is co-organized by the Library of Alexandria and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, and NSF funds leverage their significant support. The conference purposely focuses on several topics that are not directly related to encourage the participants to make connections beyond their field of study and to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue that may offer new, unexpected insights. Participants at previous workshops have highlighted this broad interdisciplinarity as an intellectual highlight of the meeting. The focus areas for this meeting were developed by the volunteer organizing committee and represent globally important topics in which the Middle East has valuable expertise and is investing important resources. All five topics represent research challenges that require the insights of multiple disciplines.- Sensing Technology - Artificial intelligence - Water - Infectious Diseases - Community ResilienceFurther development of ideas for cooperative work that develop at the conference will be facilitated by small collaboration grants for which participants may apply after the meeting.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.