U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Symposium on the Physics of Complex Fluids; Zacatecas, Mexico; July 26-30, 1993

该美洲项目奖将支持由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的Philip Pincus博士和墨西哥圣路易斯波托西自治大学的Magdaleno Medina-Noyola博士组织的第一届美国-墨西哥复杂流体物理学双边研讨会。研讨会的主要目标是发展美国和墨西哥之间的具体合作；建立一个促进持续交流的组织框架；以及制定一项计划，促进两国相互利用特殊设施和工具。复杂流体领域是一个发展中的涉及物理、化学和生物的多学科科学领域，已应用于各种技术，其中包括提高石油采收率、加工高性能结构陶瓷和聚合物、生物分子材料和微反应器。因此，研讨会还将有来自学术界和工业实验室的代表参加。

This Americas Program award will support the first U.S.-Mexico bilateral symposium on the physics of complex fluids, organized by Dr. Philip Pincus of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Dr. Magdaleno Medina-Noyola, of the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The primary objectives of the symposium are the development of specific collaborations between U.S. and Mexico; the establishment of an organizational framework for nurturing continuing exchanges; and the development of a plan for fostering mutual access to special facilities and instruments in both countries. The complex fluids field, a developing multidisciplinary scientific area involving physics, chemistry and biology, has applications to a diverse range of technologies, including, among others, enhanced oil recovery, processing of high performance structural ceramics and polymers, biomolecular materials, and microreactors. Consequently, the symposium will involve representatives from academia and industrial laboratories as well.