US-Japan Young Researchers Exchange in Nanomanufacturing and Nanotechnology

美国和日本都认识到纳米制造和纳米技术对广泛领域的潜在革命性贡献，包括人类和环境健康、通信和电子、国家安全和交通运输。随着两国的大量投资，纳米科学和纳米技术方面令人兴奋的研究发现正在以爆炸性的速度发生。然而，要使这些实验室发现产生商业规模的影响，必须克服在纳米级实现大容量、高速率处理的关键基础科学障碍。解决这些复杂的纳米制造问题需要跨多个学科以及跨国际边界的研究人员的合作，以使专业知识和资源能够得到最佳利用。为了促进这些类型的多学科、国际合作，我们建议组织2003年发起的NSF-MEXT纳米技术交流青年研究人员系列的第三个项目，今年的重点是纳米制造。该计划包括在美国为美国和日本研究人员的首次会议举办为期1天的春季研讨会，然后在今年晚些时候对几所日本大学和研究机构进行为期10天的访问。日本文部科学省(文部科学省)将赞助此次交流活动。本次交流项目的参与者主要是助理教授级别的人员，旨在促进未来十年的科学领袖(S)之间的长期实质性合作。此外，美国参赛者的选择导致了一个超过三分之一的女性团队，代表着广泛的地理分布。

ABSTRACTBoth the United States and Japan have recognized the potentially revolutionary contributions of Nanomanufacturing and Nanotechnology to a broad range of fields, including human and environmental health, communications and electronics, national security, and transportation. With significant investments by both countries, exciting research discoveries in nanoscience and nanotechnology have been occurring at an explosive rate. However, for these laboratory discoveries to have an impact on a commercial scale, critical fundamental scientific barriers to achieving high volume, high rate processing at the nanoscale must be overcome. Solving these complex nanomanufacturing problems requires the collaboration of researchers across multiple disciplines as well as across international boundaries, to enable the optimal utilization of expertise and resources.To facilitate these types of multi-disciplinary, international collaborations, we propose to organize the third program of the NSF-MEXT Young Researchers in Nanotechnology Exchange series initiated in 2003, with an emphasis this year on Nanomanufacturing. The program includes a 1-day spring symposium in the US for the initial meeting of the US and Japanese researchers, followed later in the year by a 10-day visit to several Japanese universities and research institutions. The Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) will sponsor the Japanese participants.The participants in this exchange program are primarily at the assistant professor level, with the intention of fostering long-term, substantive collaborations amongst the scientific leaders of the next decade(s). In addition, the selection of US participants has resulted in a team that is over one-third female and represents a broad geographical distribution.