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

该奖项将于2023年8月13日至18日在新罕布什尔州中部的科尔比索耶学院举行的2023年戈登软凝聚态物质研究会议（GRC）：生活和活动系统的软可持续构建模块。具体来说，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的群体的数量。本次会议将继续其悠久的传统，聚集了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软物质GRC项目汇集了那些基于凝聚态物质和生物衍生材料（如活性凝胶、胶体分散体、膜和机器学习应用）的交叉方法和材料的主题。此外，本次会议将强调软物质科学将在发展新的高分子材料循环经济中发挥越来越大的作用，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来扩大参与外，我们还将举办一个由GRC组织的活动，专门为参加会议的妇女和少数民族扩大认识并提供指导。此外，该奖项将部分支持那些参加戈登研究研讨会（GRS）的人，该研讨会将汇集研究生和博士后研究员，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 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.