Travel Grant: Conference on Fluctuations and Noise in Materials; Grand Canaria, Spain; May 26-28, 2004

该奖项将为国际光学工程学会(SPIE)将于2004年5月26日至28日在西班牙大加那利岛的Maspaloma举行的波动和噪声国际研讨会提供部分支持。大会主席是佛罗里达州立大学的德拉加纳·波波维奇教授。这只是该类型的第二次会议，该会议讨论了利用噪声和随机技术研究材料。感兴趣的领域包括作为玻璃转变和玻璃态的探针的噪声，金属-绝缘体转变中的噪声，作为传导机制的探针的散粒噪声，以及区域动力学中的噪声，巴克豪森噪声。还将包括一场关于软材料的会议。欧洲会场确保了欧洲科学家的大力参与，他们一直是这一新兴研究领域的领导者。NSF的支持将帮助大约10名研究生、博士后或初级教职员工参加。参加这次会议将使这些年轻的科学家接触到独特的信息和技术，使材料的动力学，特别是强相关的电子材料得以表征。

This award will provide partial support for the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, to be held at Maspalomas, Gran Canaria Island, Spain, May 26-28, 2004. The Conference Chairwoman is Professor Dragana Popovic, Florida State University. This is only the second conference of its type, which addresses the study of materials by noise and stochastic techniques. Areas of interest include noise as a probe of glass transitions and glassy states, noise in metal-insulator transitions, shot noise as a probe of conduction mechanisms, and noise in domain dynamics, Barkhausen noise. A session on soft materials will also be included. The European venue ensures strong participation by European scientists who have been leaders in this emerging research field. The NSF support will assist the attendance of approximately 10 graduate students, postdocs, or junior faculty. Participation in the Conference will expose these young scientists to unique information and techniques that allow the dynamics of materials, particularly strongly correlated electron materials to be characterized.