Workshop: Analytical Instrumentation for the New Millenium - Materials; New Orleans, LA

宾夕法尼亚州立大学从MPS多学科活动办公室获得这一奖项，是为了支持将于2001年3月2日至3日在路易斯安那州新奥尔良市举行的题为”新千年分析仪器-材料”的研讨会。材料研究正成为一个日益跨学科的领域，与化学和生物科学有着密切的联系。在过去的十年里，新的材料表征工具的出现在很大程度上改变了该领域。研讨会将汇集来自学术界、工业界和国家实验室的45名科学家，他们是新材料的制造者、表征工具的开发者和这些新工具的使用者。该讲习班将寻求对材料研究中的重大机会进行前瞻性评估，在这些领域，创新的新仪器可以作出重大贡献。它还将确定现有的技术或技术，其中灵敏度和/或分辨率的显着增加可能会对材料研究的进展做出实质性贡献。该讲习班将提供一份书面报告，就学术界和私营部门如何与联邦支持机构合作，促进新仪器的开发和培训下一代科学家创造性地使用这些新工具提出建议。

This award to Penn State University from the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in MPS is to support a Workshop entitled" Analytical Instrumentation for the New Millennium- Materials" to be held March 2-3, 2001 in New Orleans, LA.Materials research is becoming an increasingly interdisciplinary field, with strong links to chemistry and biological sciences. The availability of new tools for materials characterization has in large measure transformed the field over the course of the last decade.The Workshop will bring together 45 scientists from academia, industry, and national laboratories who are makers of new materials, developers of characterization tools, and users of these new tools. The Workshop will seek to provide a forward-looking assessment of major opportunities in materials research where innovative new instrumentation could make significant contributions. It will also identify existing techniques or technologies in which significant increase in sensitivity and /or resolution could contribute substantively to progress in materials research. The Workshop will provide a written report with recommendations on how the community - both academic and private sectors - working in partnership with the federal support structure could facilitate the development of new instrumentation and the training of the next generation of scientists to creatively use these new tools.