2002 Physical Metallurgy Gordon Research Conference, Plymouth, New Hampshire, July 21-26, 2002

该基金支持2002年物理冶金戈登研究会议（GRC），该会议将于2002年7月21日至26日在新罕布什尔州普利茅斯的Holderness学校举行。本次会议的主要目标是将新的和成熟的研究人员聚集在一起，以产生与物理冶金中界面作用相关的最重要的新兴研究方向的理解。与大多数戈登会议一样，物理冶金GRC召集了80 - 100名科学家和工程师，在一个休闲的环境中度过五天，与外界的干扰隔绝，有充足的时间进行讨论和互动。会议将由八届会议组成，每届会议有两到三名发言人。有一段时间专门讨论最新的话题和海报。演讲者和主席代表了来自世界各地主要机构的不同专家群体。所有NSF资金用于支付研究生和博士后研究员参加会议的注册费和差旅费。在过去的几年里，新的实验和模拟技术出现了爆炸式的发展，这些技术提供了新的原子尺度的界面分辨率描述，微观结构的量化，以及迄今为止未知的界面现象的观察。也许最令人兴奋的是最近的发展，它导致了材料加工，以实现所需的界面分布，并利用独特的界面特性来合成材料，以匹配特定的性能概况。2002年物理冶金GRC在选定的研究报告和充分的公开讨论的背景下检查了这一多学科领域的最新进展。

This grant supports the 2002 Physical Metallurgy Gordon Research Conference (GRC), to be held July 21-26, 2002, at Holderness School in Plymouth, NH. The primary goal of this conference is to bring together new and established researchers to generate an understanding of the most important emerging research directions related to the role of interfaces in physical metallurgy. Like most Gordon Conferences, the Physical Metallurgy GRC assembles a 80 - 100 scientists and engineers for five days in a casual setting that is isolated from outside distractions with ample time for discussion and interaction. The conference will consist of eight sessions with two or three speakers per session. One session is reserved for late-breaking topics and posters. The speakers and chairs represent a diverse group of experts from leading institutions around the world. All of the NSF funds are used to pay for registration and travel expenses for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to attend the conference. The last few years have seen an explosion of new experimental and simulation techniques that provide novel atomic-scale resolution descriptions of interfaces, quantification of microstructure, and observation of interfacial phenomena heretofore unknown. Perhaps most exciting are recent developments that have led to materials processing to achieve desired distributions of interfaces and to exploit unique interfacial characteristics to synthesize materials designed to match particular property profiles. The 2002 Physical Metallurgy GRC examines the latest advances in this multidisciplinary field within the context of selected research presentations and ample open discussion.