Partial Support of the Committee on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences

该奖项支持美国国家科学院物理和天文学委员会的原子、分子和光学科学委员会（CAMOS）。CAMOS确定并讨论原子、分子和光学（AMO）科学界关注的问题，特别是与研究机会有关的问题，并为联邦机构提供有关其相关计划的指导。该委员会?的运作指引是：(1)积极落实AMO 2010年报告所提出的议程；(2)为联邦机构向国家科学院申请AMO科学及相关领域的技术信息和援助提供途径；(3)就AMO科学和/或其与其他科学和技术领域的多学科联系的重要适时课题开展个案研究；(4)为AMO社区的子领域之间以及支持该领域研究的联邦机构的工作人员提供沟通接口。CAMOS编写关于原子、分子和光学科学新兴研究领域的白皮书，以启动随后国家研究委员会委员会对这些主题的研究。CAMOS监督在其主持下发起的所有研究。CAMOS预计将在AMO 2010研究的后续过程中处理的一个特定主题是量子信息科学。

This award supports the Committee on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science (CAMOS) of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. CAMOS identifies and discusses issues of concern to the atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science community, particularly in connection with research opportunities, and provides guidance to federal agencies regarding their associated programs. The committee?s operating guidelines are: (1) to provide active stewardship of the agenda laid out by the AMO 2010 report; (2) to provide a means by which federal agencies can request technical information and assistance from the National Academies about AMO science and related fields; (3) to initiate case studies on important timely topics in AMO science and/or its multidisciplinary connections with other fields of science and technology; (4) to provide an interface for communication among the subfields of the AMO community as well as with the staff of federal agencies that support research in the field. CAMOS prepares white papers on emerging areas of research in the atomic, molecular, and optical sciences to initiate subsequent National Research Council committee studies on those topics. CAMOS oversees all studies initiated under its auspices. A specific topic that CAMOS is expected to address in the process of following up the AMO 2010 study is quantum information science.