Student and Young Scientist Participation in the 8th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers to be held in Aspen, Colorado

PI正在向美国国家科学基金会申请资助，以支持美国学生和年轻科学家参加将于2002年5月的最后一周在科罗拉多州阿斯彭的阿斯彭研究所举行的“第八届x射线激光国际会议”。这个两年一次的国际会议被认为是x射线激光领域最重要的会议，并构成了一个论坛，报告激光研究前沿之一的最新进展。会议将涵盖超短波激光的发展、理论和应用方面的进展。软x射线激光领域的进展在多个学科中具有协同效应。经过几十年的研究，这些来源现在已经达到了对许多学科做出重要贡献的程度，包括等离子体物理学、材料表面表征、纳米电子计量学和生物学。因此，这一领域的继续发展具有重大的科学和工业意义。会议在历史上经常改变地点，以便在不同的时间给来自不同国家的科学家和学生提供最大的出席机会。2002年5月，距离1994年5月在美国威廉斯堡（弗吉尼亚州）举行的会议已经过去了8年。2002年阿斯彭会议是继瑞典（隆德，1996年）、日本（京都，1998年）和法国（圣马洛，2000年）非常成功的会议之后举行的。阿斯彭会议将为美国科学界和广大技术界提供积极参与这一国际论坛的机会。美国国家科学基金会的支持对于帮助尽可能多的美国学生和年轻科学家参与会议，以及通过会议记录的快速出版使整个科学界能够获得会议上的报告将是重要的。来自世界各地的250多名科学家预计将出席。

The PI's are requesting funding from NSF to support the attendance of US students and young scientists to the "8th International Conference in X-Ray Lasers", that will be held at the Aspen Institute, in Aspen Colorado during the last week of May of 2002. This bi- annual international conference is recognized as the most important in the field of X-Ray lasers, and constitutes a forum to report the most recent advances in one of the frontiers of laser research. The conference will cover advances in ultrashort wavelength laser development, theory, and applications. Advances in the field of soft x-ray lasers have a synergistic effect in several disciplines. After decades of research these sources have now reached the point at which they are making important contributions to numerous disciplines, including plasma physics, material surface characterization, nanoelectronic metrology, and biology. The continuation of advance of this field is therefore of significant scientific and industrial interest. The conference has historically changed locations, to give at different times the maximum opportunity for attendance to scientists and students from different countries. In May 2002 it will be 8 years since the conference was held in the United States, in Williamsburg (Virginia), in May 1994. The 2002 Aspen conference follows very successful meetings in Sweden (Lund, 1996), Japan (Kyoto, 1998) and France (Saint Malo, 2000). The Aspen meeting will offer the United States scientific and broad technical community the opportunity to actively participate in this international forum. National Science Foundation support will be important in assisting the participation a maximum number of US students and young scientists, and to make the presentations at the meeting accessible to the scientific community in general through the rapid publication of the conference proceedings. More than 250 scientists from all over the world are expected to attend.