Fluids and Health 2019 Conference

该奖项将支持年轻的美国研究人员参加一个名为“流体与健康”的国际会议，该会议将于2019年7月23日至8月2日在法国科西嘉岛的Cargese科学研究所举行。会议将重点讨论应用于传染病问题的多相和复杂流动，包括疾病和病原体传播、空气和水的多尺度运输、喷雾过程、感染控制以及疾病传播和遏制的数学建模。会议将为美国研究生、博士后学者和年轻教师提供机会，在一个独特的环境中与多相流体动力学的领导者、医生和医学研究人员进行交流，允许科学家、工程师和卫生保健专业人员之间进行交流。“液体与健康”是由麻省理工学院的Lydia Bourouiba组织的一个新会议。目标是帮助发展一个新的研究人员社区，他们将从事流体动力学和多相过程在传染病中的作用的研究。这种研究的成果可以改善对病原体传播的机制理解，这将是对目前主要是经验知识的重大改进。讲座将由具有广泛专业知识和背景的专家主持，包括来自美国食品和药物管理局、美国疾病控制和预防中心、法国农业研究所、伍兹霍尔海洋研究所、法国医院卫生学会以及美国和法国领先学术机构的专家。此外，来自美国和法国领先公司的几位演讲者将发表演讲。因此，本次会议将为与会者提供一个跨学科的国际论坛，以交流知识并讨论与流体动力学问题至关重要的健康问题有关的多相流动的挑战。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 award will support junior US researchers to attend an international conference titled, "Fluids and Health," which will be held July 23 through August 2, 2019 at the Cargese Institute for Scientific Studies in Cargese, Corsica, France. The conference will focus on multiphase and complex flows applied to problems in infectious disease, including disease and pathogen transmission, multiscale transport in air and water, spray processes, infection control and mathematical modeling of disease transmission and containment. The conference will provide US graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and young faculty members with opportunities to engage with leaders in multiphase fluid dynamics and physicians and medical researchers in a unique setting that allows for exchange between scientists, engineers, and health care professionals."Fluids and Health" is a new conference that has been organized by Lydia Bourouiba from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The goal is to help develop a new community of researchers who will undertake research into the role fluid dynamics and multiphase processes play in infectious disease. The product of such research could be improved mechanistic understandings of pathogen transmission, which would be a significant improvement over current, mostly empirical knowledge. The lectures will be delivered by experts that span a broad range of expertise and backgrounds, including experts from the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the French Institute for Agriculture, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the French Society for Hospital Hygiene, as well as leading US and French academic institutions. In addition, several speakers from leading US and French companies will make presentations. Thus, this conference will provide participants with an interdisciplinary international forum to exchange knowledge and discuss challenges in multiphase flows pertinent to health problems where fluid dynamics questions are of key importance.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.