Conference on Noise as a Tool for Studying Materials, Santa Fe, NM, June 1-4, 2003

该奖项将为国际光学工程学会（SPIE）主办的六个联合会议之一提供部分支持，该会议将于2003年6月1日至4日在新墨西哥州圣达菲的La方达酒店举行，并聚集在一起作为“波动和噪声研讨会”。 会议的主题是“噪音作为研究材料的工具（NTSM）”。 NTSM的主席是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的Michael Weissman。 NSTM会议的目标，基本上是同类会议中的第一次，是将来自材料科学领域的工作者聚集在一起，以及凝聚态和材料物理学，他们对理解噪声作为一种基本现象，作为材料参数以及作为微纳米器件性能的限制因素有着共同的兴趣。 感兴趣的材料包括玻璃系统和无序材料，如巨大的磁阻材料。 对于这些，噪声测量可以区分不同的域大小，而普通的电气测量必须在许多不同的区域进行平均。 另一个新出现的主题是使用噪声技术来表征非常规制度中的电导机制，例如极端的低温和高磁场。 该奖项将部分支持约12名与会者的出席，重点是研究生，博士后和年轻科学家。 会议策划者希望这将是一个正在进行的系列中的第一个，该系列将汇集专注于噪声基本来源的研究人员以及对应用和材料表征感兴趣的科学家和工程师。

This award will provide partial support for one of six co-conferences to be held under the auspices of the Internation Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) at the La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM, June 1-4, 2003, and gathered together as a "Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise". The specific conference is entitled "Noise as a Tool to Study Materials (NTSM)". The Chair of the NTSM is Michael Weissman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagn. The objective of the NSTM conference, essentially the first of its kind, is to bring together workers from across the field of materials science, as well as condensed matter and materials physics, who share interest in understanding noise as a fundamental phenomenon, as a materials parameter, and as a limiting factor in micro and nanoscale device performance. Materials of interest include glassy systems and disordered materials, such as the colossal magneto resistance materials. For these, noise measurements can distinguish among different domain sizes, in contrast to common electrical measurements that must average over many dissimilar regions. Another emerging theme is the use of noise techniques to characterize conductance mechanisms in unconventional regimes, such as extremes of low temperature and high magnetic fields. This award will partially support the attendance of approximately 12 attendees, with emphasis on graduate students, post-docs, and younger scientists. The conference planners hope that this will be the first in an ongoing series, which will bring together researchers focused on fundamental origins of noise as well as scientists and engineers interested in applications and materials characterization.