Collaborative Research: Thermal Transport Café - A Virtual Gathering for the Thermal Transport Community

热运输咖啡馆(TTC)是一个虚拟社区，定期聚集在一起，以保持热运输研究社区的创新和联系。TTC系列于2020年秋季推出，正值新冠肺炎疫情爆发之际，这场疫情扰乱了学术互动，限制了思想交流和合作。这对初级教员尤其不利，因为他们正在建立新的合作关系，并寻求研究导师。TTC每月举行一次一个半小时的会议，包括初级教员演示和辅导会议。初级教师会议包括研究报告、问题和答案，以及供集思广益和讨论的分组会议室。辅导会议在连续两次初级教员会议之间举行，主题选自初级教员关于学业和生活挑战的调查。计划邀请行业合作伙伴、政府机构代表和国家实验室人员参加专门小组。研究生和博士后研究博览会将突出社区中的下一代教师。在TTC的试点阶段，组织了12次初级教员会议和4次辅导会议，60多名初级教员和40多名高级教员积极参与。该项目将支持后大流行时代的TTC建立合作关系，培养初级教师，促进创新，并发展热传输社区。TTC将世界各地的热传输科学家聚集在一起，促进科学发现，探索未来热传输研究的方向，重点是提升初级教师和培养下一代研究人员。初级教师的技术演示提供了一个深入提问和建设性反馈的平台。辅导课程的重点是初级教师调查确定的重要和及时的主题。TTC有助于建立资源共享和开放合作的文化。TTC会议将被录制下来，并在YouTube频道上分享。将开发和维护一个专门的TTC网站，在那里传播研究界的最新消息。TTC致力于促进热运输社区的多样性、公平性和包容性。该奖项反映了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。

Thermal Transport Café (TTC) is a virtual community gathering on a regular basis to keep the thermal transport research community innovative and connected. The TTC series launched in Fall 2020 in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted academic interactions and limited the exchanges of ideas and collaboration. This is particularly detrimental to junior faculty as they build new collaborations and seek research mentorship. The TTC gathers every month for one and half hours including junior faculty presentations and mentoring sessions. The Junior Faculty Session consists of research presentations, questions and answers, and breakout rooms for brainstorming and discussions. The Mentoring Sessions are held between every two consecutive junior faculty sessions with topics selected from a junior faculty survey on academic and life challenges. Special panels to invite industrial partners, government agency representatives, and national lab personnel are planned. Graduate and postdoctoral research expos will highlight the next generation of faculty in the community. Twelve junior faculty sessions and four mentoring sessions have been organized during the pilot phase of the TTC, where over 60 junior faculty and 40 senior faculty have been actively participating. This project will support the TTC in the post-pandemic era to build collaborations, nurture junior faculty, foster innovations, and grow the thermal transport community.The TTC brings together thermal transport scientists around the world to foster scientific discoveries and explore future directions of thermal transport research, with a focus on promoting junior faculty and nurturing the next generation of researchers. The technical presentations feature junior faculty provides a platform for in-depth questions and constructive feedback. The mentoring sessions focus on important and timely topics identified by junior faculty surveys. The TTC helps to build a culture of resource sharing and open collaborations. The TTC sessions will be recorded and shared in a YouTube channel. A dedicated TTC website will be developed and maintained where the latest news of the research community will be disseminated. The TTC is committed to enhancing the diversity, equity, and inclusion in thermal transport community.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.