Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM) Conference Traveler Funding

MiltonDMS-0629032 研究人员和同事们组织了关于非均匀介质的电学、传输和光学性质的一系列国际会议的第七届会议。 前几届分别在俄亥俄州（1977年）、巴黎（1987年）、墨西哥瓜纳华托（1993年）、圣彼得堡-莫斯科（1996年）、香港（1999年）和犹他州雪鸟（2002年）举行。 这些会议为实验学家和理论家提供了一个论坛，讨论非均匀介质的电磁和弹性性质，现在通常称为超材料。 ETOPIM 7汇集了一群不同的科学家，工程师和数学家，报告这些领域的领先研究，确定贯穿各种问题的共同主题和解决方案，并为有前途的未来研究指明方向。 复合材料和非均匀介质的电输运和光学性质对科学和工程领域的广泛的高度交叉问题具有根本的重要性。 纳米复合材料、超材料、光子晶体和带隙结构、新型复合材料的设计（以及最近发现的，一些具有预测的隐身或使物体不可见的能力）、地球物理、医学和工业应用中的成像、海冰微结构和光学特性在极地生物学和气候中的作用以及国防应用，都是本次会议讨论的主题。 该补助金支持美国初级研究人员和来自代表性不足群体的美国研究人员参与ETOPIM 7。 这加强了美国跨学科专业知识的水平，使这些研究人员能够向国际观众展示他们的发现，促进了美国初级研究人员和不同领域高级研究人员之间的互动，并为妇女和少数民族提供了加强联系和展示工作的机会。

MiltonDMS-0629032 The investigator and colleagues organize the seventh in aseries of international conferences on the electrical, transport,and optical properties of inhomogeneous media. Previous oneswere held in Ohio (1977), Paris (1987), Guanajuato, Mexico(1993), St. Petersburg-Moscow (1996), Hong Kong (1999), andSnowbird, Utah (2002). These conferences have provided a forumfor experimentalists and theorists to discuss the electromagneticand elastic properties of inhomogeneous media, now often calledmetamaterials. ETOPIM7 brings together a diverse group ofscientists, enginneers and mathematicians to report on leadingresearch in these areas, to identify common themes and solutionsthat thread through a variety of problems, and to point the wayfor promising future research. The electrical transport and optical properties ofcomposites and inhomogeneous media are of fundamental importanceto a broad range of highly interdisciplinary problems throughoutscience and engineering. Nanocomposites, metamaterials, photoniccrystals and band gap structures, design of novel composites (andas discovered recently, some with the predicted ability to cloakor make objects invisible), imaging in geophysical, medical andindustrial applications, the role of sea ice microstructural andoptical properties in polar biology and climate, and defenseapplications, are all examples of topics that this conferencecovers. The grant supports US junior researchers and USresearchers from underrepresented groups to participate inETOPIM7. This strengthens the level of cross-disciplinaryexpertise in the US, allows these researchers to present theirfindings to an international audience, facilitates interactionsbetween junior US researchers and senior researchers in differentfields, and gives women and minorities the opportunity tostrengthen their contacts and present their work.