Workshop on Polymers in Complex Systems: Santa Fe, NM; October 18 - 21, 2009

技术摘要：本次研讨会将汇集计算科学家、理论家和实验家，讨论当前聚合物在复杂环境中的挑战，并得出新的方向，这将允许设计基于响应聚合物的复合物，重点是多尺度计算研究的潜在贡献。聚合物在复合系统和复杂流体中的当前和潜在应用范围很广，从需要良好机械性能的塑料到药物输送系统和单分子传感器。这些材料的重要性导致了包括合成和结构性能关系在内的巨大努力。虽然已经确定了许多实验和理论方面，但要全面了解结构性质关系，缺少的一个环节是同时洞察跨越大时间和长度尺度的分层现象。计算研究可以探索与建立预测模型相关的各种长度和时间尺度。该研讨会将汇集计算科学家和实验学家，他们的研究集中在聚合物的不同方面，以获得聚合物复合体系的未来方向，其长期目标是获得结构-性能关系的预测模型。非技术摘要：该研讨会将直接影响由聚合物复合物组成的新材料的开发。它将为发展一种系统的方法提供指导，这种方法将计算研究的投入与实验观察结合起来，以开发具有明确特征的新材料，作为扩大参与的一般贡献的一部分，特别是在聚合物物理学方面，将作出特别努力，以整合和突出该领域代表性不足的群体的贡献。 每场会议将包括至少一场由女科学家主讲的特邀演讲，三分之一的讨论主持人将是女科学家。这种从高级到最低级参与者的代表性可能有助于提高妇女在外地的总体代表性。

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT:This workshop will bring together computational scientists with theorists and experimentalists to discuss current challenges in polymers incorporated in complex environments and derive new directions that will allow the design of responsive polymer based complexes, with emphasis on the potential contributions of multi scale computational studies.The current and potential applications of polymers in compounded systems and complex fluids span a remarkable range from plastics that require well defined mechanical properties to drug delivery systems and single molecule sensors. The significance of these materials results in immense efforts that include synthesis and structure properties relations. While many experimental and theoretical aspects have been determined, one of the missing links to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the structure property relations is a simultaneous insight into hierarchal phenomena that span the large time and length scales. Computational studies can probe the rich variety of length and time scales relevant for establishing predictive models. The proposed workshop will bring together computational scientists with experimentalists whose research focuses on different aspects of polymers to derive future directions in polymer complex systems with the long term goal of deriving predictive models for structure-properties relations.NON-TECHNICAL ABSTRACT:The proposed workshop will directly impact the development of new materials that consist of polymer complexes. It will provide guidelines to the development of a systematic approach that brings together the input of computational studies with experimental observations to develop new materials with well defined characteristics.As part of the general contribution to broadening participation, in particular in polymer physics, a special effort will be made to integrate and highlight the contributions of underrepresented groups in the field. Each of the sessions will include at least one invited lecture by female scientists and a third of the discussion leaders will be female scientists. This representation from senior to the most junior participants may contribute toward enhancing the overall representation of women in the field.