Conference: 2023 Soft Condensed Matter Physics GRC and GRS: The Soft and Sustainable Building Blocks of Living and Active Systems

该奖项支持2023年戈登研究会议（GRC）软凝聚态物质：生活和活动系统的软和可持续的构建块发生在科尔比索耶学院在中部新罕布什尔州从2023年8月13日至18日。具体而言，该奖项将通过抵消差旅费和注册费来增加初级研究人员、研究生、博士后研究员和代表性不足群体的人数。2023年软物质GRC计划将继续其悠久的传统，聚集一个高度跨学科的科学家小组，在软凝聚态物质的保护伞下探索广泛的主题。2023年软物质GRC计划汇集了与凝聚态物质和生物衍生材料相关的交叉方法和材料，如活性凝胶，胶体分散体，膜和机器学习的应用。此外，本次会议将突出软物质科学在发展聚合物材料新循环经济方面发挥的日益重要的作用，重点是材料科学和加工。除了通过增加年轻和多样化的参与者人数来扩大参与外，我们还将举办一次由GRC组织的活动，专门为参加会议的妇女和少数群体扩大认识和提供指导。此外，本发明还提供了一种方法，该奖项将部分支持那些参加戈登研究研讨会（GRS），这将汇集研究生和博士后，博士研究员，其项目旨在鼓励由同行和少数高级主持人促进的开放式思想交流。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。

This award supports the 2023 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Soft Condensed Matter: The Soft and Sustainable Building Blocks of Living and Active Systems taking place at Colby Sawyer College in central New Hampshire from August 13th through 18th, 2023. Specifically, this award will increase the number of junior researchers, graduate students, post doctoral fellows and underrepresented groups by offsetting the cost of travel and registration fees. This conference will continue its long tradition of assembling a highly interdisciplinary group of scientists to explore the broad range of topics under the umbrella of Soft Condensed Matter.The 2023 Soft Matter GRC program brings together topics that cross-cut methods and materials of interest to those rooted in condensed matter and biologically derived materials such as active gels, colloidal dispersions, membranes and applications of machine learning. Moreover, this conference will highlight the ever increasing role that soft matter science will play in developing a new circular economy for polymeric materials with an emphasis on the materials science and processing. In addition to broadening participation through the increased number of young and diverse participants, we will hold a GRC organized event that is specifically designed to broaden awareness and provide guidance to women and minorities who are participating in the conference. In addition, this award will partially support those attending the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) which will bring together graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with a program designed to encourage the open exchange of ideas that is facilitated by peers and a small number of senior moderators.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.