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

许多阿拉伯国家正在对科学和技术进行重大投资，并拥有独特的设施和资源。然而，美国研究人员几乎没有机制来了解该地区的研究努力。这次会议为美国科学家提供了一个难得的机会，让他们与中东有前途的年轻研究人员互动，开发新的想法和方法，应用于正在进行的研究，并发现合作机会。该项目将帮助支持将于2019年秋季在埃及亚历山大市举行的阿拉伯-美国边疆方案系列第七次会议。该活动将为大约40名职业生涯早期的美国科学家提供机会，参加为期三天的会议，总共约100人参加，会议旨在：加强美国和阿拉伯青年研究人员之间的科学对话和交流；鼓励跨学科转让技术和方法，加强美国和中东/北非地区内外的科学和工程合作，并增强青年科学家、工程师和医疗专业人员在各自领域和其他领域的领导作用。与会者是通过竞争性的申请程序挑选出来的，这确保了活跃于研究的科学家和工程师的会议，他们准备利用会议上形成的想法和关系。这次活动是由亚历山大图书馆和埃及科学研究与技术学院联合举办的，国家科学基金会的基金利用了他们的大力支持。会议特意将重点放在几个不直接相关的主题上，以鼓励与会者在他们的研究领域之外建立联系，并促进可能提供新的、意想不到的见解的跨学科对话。前几次讲习班的与会者都强调了这种广泛的跨学科性质，认为这是会议的一个学术亮点。这次会议的重点领域是志愿人员组织委员会制定的，是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着需要多学科洞察力的研究挑战。-传感技术-人工智能-水-传染病-社区复原力-在会议上发展的合作工作想法的进一步发展将通过小额合作赠款促进，与会者可以在会议后申请。这一奖项反映了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。

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.