2004 Physical Metallurgy Gordon Conference; Plymouth, NH

这笔赠款支持2004年物理冶金戈登研究会议，主题是“财产预测：规模的挑战”。会议将于7月25日至30日在新罕布夏州普利茅斯的霍尔德内斯学校举行。这次会议的目标是提供一个论坛，积极讨论材料性质预测领域的最新科学进展，重点是不同长度尺度的复合材料的单调和循环性质。近年来，在性质预测的实验、理论和计算方面都取得了巨大的进步。本次会议强调了这些进展，并确定了该领域未来研究的主要方向。该议程围绕几个关键主题组织，包括设计-材料界面、跨尺度结构的表征、变形结构、连接位错和连续体、性能测量的新技术、依赖于时间和速率的变形以及变异性、概率和寿命预测。由于2000年物理冶金会议强调了过程建模方面的进步，将有一次会议专门讨论这两类模型之间的联系。NSF的资金支持参加会议的研究生和博士后研究人员的会议费和旅费。每个学生候选人都将提交一份关于他们研究的海报。多样性是选择学生/博士后候选人的主要考虑因素。演讲者和主席代表了来自世界各地领先机构的不同专家群体。会议由来自学术界、国家实验室和工业界的大约100-130名研究人员组成。

This grant supports the 2004 Physical Metallurgy Gordon Research Conference on "Property Prediction: The Challenge of Scales". The meeting will be held on July 25-30th at the Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. The goal of this conference is to provide a forum for active discussion of recent scientific advances in the area of material property prediction with emphasis on montonic and cyclic properties of complex materials at various length scales. In recent years there have been dramatic advances in experimental, theoretical and computational aspects of property prediction. This meeting highlights these advances and identifies key directions for future research in this field. The agenda has been organized around several critical topics including the Design-Materials Interface, Characterization of Structures Across Scales, Deformation Structures, Connecting Dislocations and the Continuum, Novel Techniques for Property Measurement, Time- and Rate-Dependent Deformation, and Variability, Probabilistics and Life Prediction. Since the 2000 Physical Metallurgy Conference highlighted advances in process modeling, one session will be devoted to the linkage between these two classes of models. The NSF funds support conference fees and travel expenses for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers attending the conference. Each of the student candidates will present a poster on their research. Diversity is a primary consideration in the selection of the student/postdoctoral candidates. The speakers and chairs represent a diverse group of experts from leading institutions around the world. The meeting is composed of approximately 100-130 researchers from academia, national laboratories and industry.