US-Africa Advanced Studies Institute on Photon Interactions with Atoms and Molecules

0542410 Msezane该奖项支持2005年11月2日至12日在南非德班举行的美国-非洲光子与原子和分子相互作用高级研究所。高等研究所由克拉克亚特兰大大学的Alfred Z. Msezane博士、南非物理研究所的Edmund Zingu博士和南非科学与工业研究理事会的Philemon Mjwara博士组织，将汇集来自美国和非洲的约50名高级研究生和博士后研究人员以及20名讲师。非洲的参与者将来自组成非洲激光中心的机构，这是一个虚拟的卓越中心，将至少六个非洲国家的科学家和激光基础设施联系起来。密集讲座的主题是光与物质的相互作用，结合了美国和非洲正在积极研究的一系列领域，包括原子、分子和光学物理学、物理化学和材料科学。讲座将讨论这些领域的最新发现，以及对未来发展至关重要的理论、计算和实验工具。该研究所将为美国和非洲的年轻科学家提供优秀的科学培训。它还将帮助建立一个合作科学家的国际网络，通过非洲激光中心将他们联系起来。非洲激光中心是非洲科学最强大的人力和物质基础设施组合之一。大量非裔美国人、非洲裔和女性教师和学生将参与其中，为美国国家科学基金会的目标做出贡献，即吸引美国代表性不足的群体，培养一支更具全球参与度的科学领袖骨干。该研究所将提供培训并帮助在能够对美国和非洲产生积极影响的科学领域建立国际合作，例如通过加强光子相互作用的工业和医疗应用，或通过纳米科学加速对更便宜能源的研究。最后，研究所的时间安排与前一周在德班举行的世界物理与可持续发展会议一致，使研究所的一些与会者能够为这次重要会议作出贡献并从中吸取教训。这个奖项是由化学系和物理系共同资助的。

0542410 Msezane This award supports the US-Africa Advanced Studies Institute on Photon Interactions with Atoms and Molecules, November 2-12, 2005 in Durban, South Africa. Organized by Dr. Alfred Z. Msezane of Clark Atlanta University, Dr. Edmund Zingu of the South African Institute of Physics and Dr. Philemon Mjwara of the South African Council on Scientific and Industrial Research, the Advanced Studies Institute will bring together from the US and Africa approximately 50 advanced graduate students and postdoctoral researchers and 20 lecturers. The African participants will come from the institutions that make up the African Laser Centre, a virtual center of excellence that links scientists and laser infrastructure in at least six African nations. The general theme of the intensive set of lectures is light-matter interactions, incorporating a range of fields being actively studied in the US and Africa, including Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Physical Chemistry, and Materials Science. The lectures will address the most recent findings in these fields, as well as the theoretical, computational and experimental tools that will be key to future advances. The Institute will provide excellent scientific training for both US and African young scientists. It will also help to establish an international network of collaborating scientists, linking them through the African Laser Centre, one of the strongest combinations of human and physical infrastructure for science in Africa. A significant number of African-American, African and women faculty and students will be involved, contributing to NSF goals of engaging underrepresented groups in the US and developing a more globally-engaged cadre of scientific leaders. The Institute will provide training and help establish international collaborations in fields of science that can positively impact the US and Africa, for example by enhancing industrial and medical applications of photon interactions or by accelerating research on cheaper energy sources through nanoscience. Finally, the Institute is timed to coincide with the World Conference on Physics and Sustainable Development being held in Durban the preceding week, enabling some of the Institute participants to contribute to and learn from this important meeting. This award is co-funded by the Division of Chemistry and the Division of Physics.