Symposium: 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, July 10-15, 2010, Alexandria, Virginia.

1004000levin本基金为赴美参加2010年夏季举行的第27届国际稀薄气体动力学研讨会的研究生、博士后和助理教授提供部分资助。研讨会是低密度非平衡流建模和模拟的首次会议，并将在缺席22年后重返美国。它通常会吸引来自30个不同国家的约200名参与者，包括学术界、政府和工业界。组织小组的成员是来自学术界、政府和工业界的稀薄气体动力学专家。会议将由宾夕法尼亚州立大学会议与研究所主办，并得到了航空航天工程系和工程学院的支持。学术价值和更广泛的影响：研讨会包括纳米技术和等离子体的主题，我们特别关注这两个主题，通过将会议设在硅谷附近，吸引更多的半导体社区参与。自成立以来，研讨会的主题已经发展到包括等离子体处理、空间、材料和推进的工程应用，以及分子相互作用、气体表面相互作用、动力学理论、天文观测、输运、多相流、燃烧和非平衡高超音速气体动力学的基本物理。

1004000LevinThis grant provides partial support for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and assistant professors in the United States to attend the 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics to be held during the summer of 2010. The Symposium is a premiere meeting for modeling and simulation of low density, nonequilibrium flows and will return to the United States after a twenty-two year absence. It typically attracts about 200 participants from 30 different countries, spanning academia, government, and industry. Members of the organizing group are experts in rarified gas dynamics from academia, government, and industry. The conference will be run by Penn State Conferences and Institute and has received support from the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the College of Engineering.Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact: The Symposium includes topics in nanotechnology and plasmas, both of which we are paying particular attention to attract more of the more semiconductor community participates by locating the meeting close to Silicon Valley. Since its initiation, the Symposium topics have grown to include both the engineering applications of plasma processing, space, materials, and propulsion, as well as, the basic physics of molecular interactions, gas-surface interactions, kinetic theory, astronomical observations, transport, multi-phase flows, combustion, and non-equilibrium hypersonic gas dynamics.