U.S.-Federal Republic of Germany Joint Seminar on Current Developments and Trends in Polymer Science (Yountsville, California, September 7-11, 1987)

该奖项将允许12名年轻的美国聚合物科学家和18名年轻的德国聚合物科学家参加于1987年9月7日至11日在加利福尼亚州扬茨维尔举行的“聚合物科学的当前发展和趋势”美国联邦共和国联合研讨会。研讨会将通过一个包括大分子物理和化学的平衡课程来解决先进材料科学的关键领域。本次研讨会由两位美国人，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的Samuel I. Stupp教授和马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校的David A. Tirrell教授，以及四位来自德意志联邦共和国的教授，拜罗伊特大学的Claus D. Eisenbach和Oskar Nuyken，美因茨马克斯普朗克高分子科学研究所的Hans W. Spiess和Joachim Wendorff共同策划。达姆施塔特德国艺术学院。该研讨会将有16名美国人（其中4名不是由NSF资助的）与18名德国人会面，为期五天，听取报告并就当前聚合物科学的主题进行讨论。研讨会的目的之一是扩大美国和德国科学家之间个人和技术交流的范围，并发起联合研究项目。讨论会的地点相对孤立，与会者人数较少，这将有利于非正式讨论。提议的研讨会应该允许美国人和德国人探讨现代聚合物科学中的科学和方法论问题。讨论会将为提出和检验关于一个重要和迅速变化的领域的新想法提供一个环境，它应该对这一领域的研究产生积极影响。

This award would allow 12 young American polymer scientists and 18 young German polymer scientists to attend a U.S.-Federal Republic of Germany Joint Seminar on "Current Developments and Trends in Polymer Science," to be held in Yountsville, California on September 7-11, 1987. The seminar will address critical areas in advanced materials science through a well-balanced program that includes both the physics and chemistry of macromolecules. The proposed seminar is being planned by two Americans, Professors Samuel I. Stupp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and David A. Tirrell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and four professors from the Federal Republic of Germany, Claus D. Eisenbach and Oskar Nuyken, University of Bayreuth, Hans W. Spiess, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Science, Mainz, and Joachim Wendorff, Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut, Darmstadt. The seminar will have 16 Americans (4 not funded by NSF) meet with 18 Germans for five days to hear presentations and to have discussions on current topics in polymer science. A purpose of the seminar is to expand the scope of the personal and technical interactions between the American and German scientists and to initiate joint research projects. The relatively isolated location of the seminar and the small number of participants will facilitate informal discussion. The proposed seminar should allow the American and Germans to explore scientific and methodological issues in modern polymer science. The seminar will provide a setting for presenting and testing new ideas about an important and rapidly changing area and it should have a positive effect on research in this field.