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

热传输caf<e:1> (TTC)是一个虚拟的社区聚会，定期举行，以保持热传输研究社区的创新和联系。TTC系列于2020年秋季在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间启动，扰乱了学术互动，限制了思想交流与合作。这对初级教师尤其不利，因为他们正在建立新的合作关系并寻求研究指导。TTC每月聚会一个半小时，包括初级教师的演讲和指导会议。初级教师会议包括研究报告，问答，以及头脑风暴和讨论的分组讨论室。辅导课程在每两个连续的初级教师会议之间举行，主题从初级教师对学术和生活挑战的调查中选择。计划邀请工业合作伙伴、政府机构代表和国家实验室人员参加特别小组讨论。研究生和博士后研究展览将突出社区的下一代教师。在TTC的试点阶段，已经组织了12次初级教师会议和4次指导会议，有60多名初级教师和40多名高级教师积极参与。该项目将支持TTC在后流行病时代建立合作，培养青年教师，促进创新，并发展热运输社区。TTC汇集了世界各地的热输运科学家，以促进科学发现和探索热输运研究的未来方向，重点是促进青年教师和培养下一代研究人员。以初级教师为特色的技术演示提供了一个深入问题和建设性反馈的平台。指导课程的重点是由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会议将被录制并在YouTube频道上分享。将建立和维持一个专门的TTC网站，发布研究界的最新消息。TTC致力于加强热运输社区的多样性、公平性和包容性。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。

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.