NSF Inorganic Chemistry Workshops, 2007-2009

无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目的这个奖项支持由埃默里大学的Craig Hill教授和爱荷华州立大学的Andreja Bakac教授组织的NSF无机化学研讨会。现代无机化学是从有机化学、固体化学和配位化学等传统学科发展而来的，并对这些领域以及几乎所有传统化学分支学科的新发展方向作出了重大贡献。无机化学也有助于消除这些分支学科之间的障碍，从而促进新的合作研究的潜力。NSF无机化学研讨会是一个独特的国家学术/工业/政府实验室论坛，汇集了来自无机化学各个分支的不同参与者。努力从界面领域引进工人，以鼓励新的研究活动。研讨会的形式是将来自学术界、工业界、私人和政府研究机构的化学家小组聚集在一起。该研讨会还汇集了来自美国不同地区、处于职业生涯不同阶段的研究人员。研讨会的目标不是促进完成和润色成果的展示；相反，讲习班鼓励对早期进展阶段的调查进行非正式和详细的讨论。它强调新出现的想法、新技术和未解决的问题，而不是完成的结果，从而促进信息、建议、批评和协作专业知识的最大限度转移。这种形式给半正式的谈话留出了充足的提问和讨论时间。

This award in the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program supports the NSF Inorganic Chemistry Workshop organized by Professors Craig Hill at Emory University and Andreja Bakac at Iowa State University. Modern inorganic chemistry evolved from the traditional disciplines of organic, solid state and coordination chemistry and has contributed significantly to new directions of growth in these fields as well as virtually every traditional subdiscipline of chemistry. Inorganic chemistry is also serving to dissolve barriers between these subdisciplines, thereby facilitating the potential for new collaborative research. The NSF Inorganic Chemistry Workshop is a unique national academic/industrial/government laboratory forum that brings together a diverse set of participants from all branches of inorganic chemistry. An effort is made to bring in workers from interfacial areas to encourage new research initiatives. The format of the Workshop is to bring together small groups of chemists from academia, industry, and private and government research institutes. The Workshop also assembles researchers from different regions of the US and in different stages of their careers. The Workshop's goal is not to promote the presentation of completed and polished results; rather, the Workshop encourages informal and detailed discussion of investigations in early stages of progress. It stresses emerging ideas, new techniques, and unsolved problems instead of completed results, thereby promoting the maximum transfer of information, suggestions, criticism, and collaborative expertise. This format allows time for both semi-formal talks with ample time for questions and discussion.