NanoFlorida 2022

拟议的NanoFlorida会议解决了现有的国际，国家和区域会议对相关主题没有解决的重要需求。具体来说，有必要召开一次会议，有意义地参与和支持来自不同领域和不同背景的纳米研究学生的智力和专业进步。鉴于纳米技术的科学，工程和应用的广度，有许多全球性的国际，国家和区域会议，支持研究进展的传播以及活跃在这些领域的领先研究人员和公司之间的参与和技术交流。这些会议通常是相当大的，恐吓，昂贵的，在某些情况下，很难让学生的工作被接受为演示。这些重大障碍可能会极大地限制学生的参与，特别是那些参与资金不足的实验室和学术生涯的早期阶段。NanoFlorida会议将自己与更大的国际，国家和区域会议区分开来，以前所未有的水平吸引学生，不仅让他们作为技术贡献者和演讲者，而且还作为会议组织者。NanoFlorida的规模足够小，成本足够低，学生可以自己展示他们的研究，以便更广泛的学生和教师可以建立和加强学者的纳米技术社区。智力优点：本次会议提案的目的是支持更多的学生从更多的背景在NanoFlorida 2022会议的扩大和包容性的参与。具体来说，NSF的资金将用于支持更多的学生参与这一丰富的活动，促进他们对尖端纳米技术研究的理解，促进他们的专业发展，并大大降低学生注册会议和州内旅行的费用。拟议的目标将通过提供学生注册费用的报销，并在某些情况下部分到全部的州内旅行支持来实现。通过为NanoFlorida 2022会议提供财政支持，NSF将通过比前几年更大，更具包容性的学生群体来促进对纳米级科学，工程和技术的最新研究的理解。此外，参加的学生将有机会提高关键的专业技能，扩大他们的技术网络。NanoFlorida 2022会议的成功将通过使用会前和会后调查进行评估。会前调查将包括关于他们对纳米研究概念的会前知识/经验以及他们对会议的期望的问题。会后调查将包括有关他们的纳米研究概念和主题演讲者的选择，演示文稿的质量，会议设施和服务，专业发展和学生网络活动的有用性，以及会议对他们在纳米技术，学术专业和未来职业的兴趣的影响的改进理解的问题。更广泛的影响：NanoFlorida会议让学生接触到最新的纳米技术研究及其应用。像NanoFlorida这样的会议是研究生和本科生磨练科学沟通技能的理想场所。观众足够多，这样演讲对学生来说就有意义了，但又不会太多太正式，以至于他们在演讲时感到紧张。学生将会见来自其他学校和行业的研究人员。这些专业关系将为学生在科学，技术，工程和数学领域的职业生涯提供长期利益。学习纳米技术，发展沟通技巧，并与学术界和工业界的研究人员建立联系是学生毕业后加入纳米技术劳动力队伍的重要步骤。使用NSF的资金来消除财政障碍，这可能会阻止一些学生参与代表性不足的群体，代表性不足的佛罗里达机构，以及过去资金不足的研究小组，可以使更多的学生参加，展示他们的研究，并从会议的智力，专业，该奖项反映了NSF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。

The proposed NanoFlorida Conference addresses important needs that existing international, national, and regional conferences on related topics do not address. Specifically, there is a need for a conference to meaningfully engage and support the intellectual and professional advancement of students involved in nanoscale research from diverse fields and diverse backgrounds. Given the breadth of the science, engineering, and applications of nanotechnology, there are many global international, national, and regional conferences that support the dissemination of research advances and the engagement and technical exchange between leading researchers and companies active in these fields. These conferences are typically quite large, intimidating, costly, and in some cases quite difficult to get student work accepted for presentation. These significant barriers can greatly limit the participation of students, particularly those involved in less well funded labs and at the early stages of their academic career. The NanoFlorida conference sets itself apart from the larger international, national, and regional conferences for nanoscale research by engaging students at an unprecedented level and not only involving them as technical contributors and presenters but also as conference organizers. NanoFlorida is intentionally sized to be small enough and low cost enough that students can present their research themselves and so that a broader range of students and faculty can build and strengthen a nanotechnology community of scholars. Intellectual Merit:The objective of this conference proposal is to support the expanded and inclusive engagement of more students from more background in the NanoFlorida 2022 Conference. Specifically, NSF funding will be used to support the involvement of more students in this enriching event, advance their understanding of cutting-edge nanotechnology research, facilitate their professional development, and greatly lower the student cost to register for the meeting and for in-state travel. The proposed objective will be achieved by offering the reimbursement of student registration costs and in some cases partial to full in-state travel support. By providing financial support for the NanoFlorida 2022 Conference, the NSF will advance the understanding of state-of-the-art research in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology by a larger and more inclusive student population that previous years. In addition, the student attending will have opportunities to improve key professional skills and expand their technical network.The success of the NanoFlorida 2022 Conference will be evaluated by using a pre-conference and a post-conference survey. The pre-conference survey will include questions about their pre-conference knowledge of / experience with nanoscale research concepts and their expectations for the conference. The post-conference survey will include questions about their improved understanding of nanoscale research concepts and the selection of keynote speakers, quality of presentations, conference amenities and services, usefulness of professional-development and networking activities for students, and the impact of the conference on their interest in nanotechnology, academic major, and future career. Broader Impacts:NanoFlorida conferences expose students to the latest nanotechnology research and its applications. A conference like NanoFlorida is an ideal venue for graduate and undergraduate students to hone their science-communication skills. The audiences are big enough so that the presentation is meaningful to the student but not too large and formal so that they are nervous to present. Students will meet researchers from other schools and from industry. These professional relationships will provide long-term benefits to student careers in science, technology, engineering, and math fields. Learning about nanotechnology, developing communication skills, and networking with researchers from academia and industry are important steps that prepare students to join the nanotechnological workforce upon their graduation. Using NSF funds to eliminate the financial barrier, which may have prevented the participation of some students from underrepresented groups, underrepresented Florida institutions, and less well funded research groups in the past, could enable more diverse students to attend, present their research, and benefit from the conference's intellectual, professional, and career development activities.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.