Travel Funds for The Fourteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials 2020; New York, New York; September 28 to October 3, 2020

该基金通过为研究生，博士后研究员和初级教师提供资金，支持下一代动态系统，材料和超材料力学研究人员前往第十四届国际新波现象人工材料大会-超材料2020，这将包括一个为期四天的会议（9月28日至10月3日）和一个为期两天的博士学校（10月4日至5日）。这是这个备受瞩目的国际会议第一次在美国举行。本次活动将为学生和年轻研究人员提供一个独特的机会，让他们接触到超材料领域的最新进展，并与这个快速发展领域的领先专家会面。博士学院课程将侧重于工程低维人造材料的光学特性。最近对这一主题的兴趣是由对二维材料、超表面、谷电子学和涡旋电子学日益增长的兴趣所激发的。这笔拨款将用于扩大传统上在主要超材料会议中代表性不足的群体的参与，特别是妇女、代表性不足的少数民族和来自通常没有资金前往这些会议的大学的研究人员。第十四届新型波动现象人工材料国际大会将提供一个独特的论坛，分享超材料研究的最新成果，并汇集工程、物理和材料科学界在人工电磁材料及其在微波、毫米波、太赫兹和光学频率以及声学、力学、流体力学和热力学方面的应用领域的工作。会议计划将包括四场由超材料领域的杰出研究人员进行的全体会议。此外，著名专家将应邀发表演讲，回顾各自领域的最新进展。大会举行特别专题讨论会，由应邀和贡献的论文组成，讨论与会者认为是专题和特别感兴趣的领域。技术口头会谈和互动海报会议将涵盖广泛的主题，从超材料和复杂电磁介质的基本电磁理论到创新的微波和光学器件，为获得该资助的早期职业科学家和工程师提供机会，以获得超材料领域的最新进展。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 supports the next generation of researchers in dynamic systems, mechanics of materials and metamaterials by providing funding for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty to travel to the Fourteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials 2020, which will comprise a 4-day conference (28 September-3 October), and a 2-day Doctoral School (4-5 October). It is the first time that this highly visible international conference is held in the United States. This event will represent a unique opportunity for students and young researchers to gain exposure to the latest advancements in the field of metamaterials and to meet the leading experts in this rapidly developing field. The Doctoral School course will be focused on the optical properties of engineered low-dimensional artificial materials. The recent interest in this topic is motivated by growing interest in 2D materials, metasurfaces, valleytronics and twistronics. This grant will be used to broaden participation from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in major metamaterials conferences, particularly from women, underrepresented minorities, and researchers from universities that do not typically have the funding to travel to these events.The Fourteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena will provide a unique forum to share the latest results on metamaterials research and to bring together the engineering, physics, and material science communities working in the field of artificial electromagnetic materials and their applications at microwaves, millimeter waves, terahertz, and optical frequencies, as well as in acoustics, mechanics, hydrodynamics and thermodynamics. The conference program will include four plenary talks given by eminent researchers in the field of metamaterials. In addition, leading experts will present invited talks, which will review the state-of-the art and address the latest advancements in their respective areas. The Congress holds Special Symposia, comprised of invited and contributed papers, on areas deemed to be topical and of special interest to conference attendees. The technical oral talks and interactive poster sessions will encompass a broad range of topics, from fundamental electromagnetic theory of metamaterials and complex electromagnetic media to innovative microwave and optical devices, giving the opportunity to the early career scientists and engineers supported by this grant to get access to the latest advances in the area of metamaterials.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.