2009 Liquids, Chemistry & Biology of Gordon Research Conference

本提案申请部分资金，以支持将于2009年8月2日至6日在新罕布夏州霍尔德内斯的霍尔德内斯学校举行的2009年戈登液体、化学和物理学研究会议：今天的问题和明天的解决方案挑战我们的液体研究需求。液体对其工程、化学和物理的研究影响着我们所有人。控制它们的结构和多相流可以抑制或促进从管道、粒子技术和大型发动机的能量耗散到车身假肢、MEMS和纳米技术设备的技术进步。因此，在21世纪，资金流动将继续严重影响我们生活质量、健康、财富和生计的方方面面，有许多重大挑战需要应对，许多挑战需要我们在方法和思维方面进行范式转变。两年一度的戈登液体研究会议是该研究领域和支持科学家的首要基础研究会议。来自世界各地的来自大学、国家实验室和行业的顶尖科学家与年轻科学家和新来者齐聚一堂，就这一多学科和多尺度主题的最新问题进行为期一周的正式和非正式讨论。今天的问题和明天的解决方案挑战我们的液体需求研究主题是我们试图探索潜在的科学，包括我们对多相流、物理、化学和表征工具的理解的最新进展如何帮助解决明天的应用提出的问题。与此同时，我们希望研究相反的问题：未来创新设备和应用的感知需求如何揭示我们当前理解和研究能力中的空白。学术价值在于，2009年GRC液体会议的演讲者和讨论领导者都是世界上最杰出的学者和研究人员之一。除了将该学科的许多公认的知识领袖聚集在一起集思广益，还非常坚定地承诺让来自一系列相关学科的执业工程师和年轻科学家充分参与，以便他们不仅可以学习最新的研究工具，还可以为支持和促进未来所必需的方法范式变化做出贡献。今年的会议将从理论、实验和计算机模拟的角度强调最新的课题。这次会议的目的是在不同社区之间进行杂交，并抵制他们的巴尔干化。与过去几年不同，2009年会议的一个重要方面是演讲者和与会者在多相流领域的大量代表。更广泛的影响是支持为学生和年轻研究人员提供旅行/登记支助，他们将明显受益于戈登会议提供的联网体验，但由于资金限制，他们无法参加。在最后一天，我们将有一个环节，在那里最好的海报被口头展示。我们将表彰最杰出的海报，特别是那些由研究生和博士后提交的海报。在演讲者和讨论带头人中，本次会议有出色的女性代表。支持申请将向所有感兴趣的个人开放，但如果这次会议超额认购，我们将优先选择与会者，并将特别考虑女性学生和博士后，以及代表不足的少数民族或残疾人。

0926841GranickThis proposal requests partial funding to support the 2009 Liquids, Chemistry & Physics of Gordon Research Conference: Today's Problems & Tomorrow's Solutions Challenging Our Needs in Liquids Research to be held August 2-6, 2009, Holderness School, Holderness, New Hampshire. Liquids the study of their engineering, chemistry, and physics affects us all. Controlling their structure and multiphase flow can either inhibit or enable technological advances from energy dissipation in pipelines, particle technology, and large engines, to body prostheses, MEMS and nanotechnological devices. Thus, in the 21st Century, liquid flows will continue to critically impact all aspects of our quality of life, health, wealth and livelihood and there are significant challenges to be addressed, many requiring paradigm shifts in both our approaches and thinking. The biennial Gordon Research Conference in Liquids is the premier basic research meeting for this research field and supporting scientists. Coming from all parts of the world, leading scientists from universities, national labs and industries gather with young scientists and newcomers to the field for one week of formal and informal discussions on state of the art issues in this multidisciplinary and multi scale subject. Today's Problems & Tomorrow's Solutions Challenging Our Needs in Liquids Research theme is our attempt to explore how underlying science, including recent advances in our understanding of multiphase flow, physics, chemistry and characterization tools can help solve the problems posed by tomorrows applications. Simultaneously we wish to examine the converse problem: how the perceived demands of tomorrow's innovative devices and applications can reveal the blanks in our current understandings and research capabilities. Intellectual Merit is that the speakers and discussion leaders chosen for the 2009 GRC Conference on Liquids are amongst the most eminent scholars and researchers in the world. Besides bringing many of the established intellectual leaders of the subject together to brainstorm the future, there is also a very strong commitment to fully involve practicing engineers and young scientists from a range of related disciplines so that they may not only learn of the latest research tools but also contribute to the paradigm changes in approach which are necessary for underpinning and enabling the future. The conference this year will emphasize the freshest topics from the viewpoints of theory, experiment, and computer simulation. This conference aims to cross-fertilize between different communities and to resist their balkanization. An important aspect of the conference in 2009, as distinct from past years, is the heavy representation by speakers and attendees in the field of multiphase flow. Broader Impact is to support both travel/registration support for students and young researchers who will markedly benefit from the networking experience which the Gordon Conferences provide but who could not otherwise be able to attend because of funding restrictions. On the final day we will have a session in which the best posters are presented orally. We will recognize the most outstanding posters, especially those presented by graduate students and postdocs. Among the speakers and discussion leaders, this conference has excellent representation from women. Applications for support will be open to all interested individuals, but if this conference becomes over subscribed, we will impose priorities in selecting attendees and special consideration will be given to students and postdocs who are female, and also under-represented ethnic minority or disabled individuals.