Regional Workshop on the Use of Synchrotron Radiation for Research including a Symposium on Nanotechnologies, Campinas, Brazil, February 10-13, 2001

Lerch0094781该地区奖由国际项目部和材料研究部为美国物理学会的欧文·A·勒奇博士和巴西同步加速器光技术协会(ABTLuS)主任赛隆·贡卡尔维斯·达席尔瓦博士组织的研讨会提供支持。关于使用同步辐射进行研究的讲习班将于2001年2月在巴西坎皮纳斯的国家同步辐射实验室(LNLS)举行，其中包括纳米技术专题讨论会。科学参与者来自美国、加拿大、墨西哥、巴西、委内瑞拉、阿根廷以及西半球以外的国家。研讨会时间短，重点放在同步加速器研究和纳米技术的特定领域，以研究为导向。围绕原子和分子光谱学、表面物理和催化、软物质和聚合物、X射线结构研究和纳米技术组织了两个或更多的专门研讨会。研讨会将用于培训几名来自半球的博士后学生，并为LNLS设施带来更多用户。这样的研讨会促进了未来的国际合作，有助于团结全球社会。他们还让年轻的科学家接触到国际科学，扩大了他们的视野。该研讨会将有助于增加拉丁美洲的用户群，为美国的七个主要同步加速器设施服务。

Lerch0094781This regional award provides support from the Division of International Programs and the Division of Materials Research for a workshop organized by Dr. Irving A. Lerch of the American Physical Society and Dr. Cylon Goncalves da Silva, Director of the Brazilian Association for Synchrotron Light Technology (ABTLuS). This workshop on the Use of Synchrotron Radiation for Research will be held at the National Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) in Campinas, Brazil in February 2001 and includes a Symposium on Nanotechnology. The scientific participants come from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, as well as from countries outside the Western Hemisphere. The workshop will be short, focused and research-oriented in specific areas of synchrotron research and nanotechnologies. Two or more specialized symposia are organized around atomic and molecular spectroscopy, surface physics and catalysis, soft matter and polymers, x-ray structural studies, and nanotechnologies. The symposium will be used to train several postdoctoral students from the hemisphere and also bring in more users to the LNLS facility. Workshops such as this nurture future international collaborations and help unify the global community. They also expose young scientists to international science and expand their horizons. This workshop will help increase the user base in Latin America for the seven major synchrotron facilities in the U.S.