Workshop on the Future of Carbon-Nanoscience and Engineering, Dec. 3, 2010. To Be Held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

智力上的优点。该提案要求提供部分资金，以在马萨诸塞州理工学院举办一个关于碳纳米科学和工程未来的研讨会。本短期课程旨在向新英格兰地区的研究生和本科生介绍石墨烯的新特性和可能性，石墨烯是一种具有无与伦比的传输特性的单层碳原子。它将汇集世界各地的石墨烯科学和技术专家，并将促进学生的参与。拟议的石墨烯电子学短期课程将为学生参与者提供接触新材料石墨烯、其基础物理学和潜在工程应用的机会。这个研讨会的时机是理想的，这一代的学生学习如何石墨烯的新科学和技术正在发展。这些课程将是有用的石墨烯以外，因为这些学生将能够将它们应用到任何未来的新材料和技术，他们将在他们的职业生涯中遇到。将作出特别努力，通过广告和积极招聘，让女生和少数民族学生参加短期课程。

Intellectual merit. This proposal requests partial funding to organize a Workshop on the Future of Carbon Nanoscience and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This shortcourse aims to introduce the graduate and undergraduate students in the New England region to the new properties and possibilities of graphene, a single monolayer of carbon atoms with unsurpassed transport properties. It will bring together world experts in graphene science and technology and it will foster student participation.Broader Impact. The proposed short course on graphene electronics will provide student participants with an opportunity to gain exposure to the new material graphene, its basic physics and potential engineering applications. The timing of this workshop is ideal for this generation of students to learn how the new science and technology of graphene is developing. These lessons will be useful beyond graphene, as these students will be able to apply them to any future newmaterials and technologies that they will encounter during their career. Special effort will be made to involve female and minority students in the short course by advertisement and active recruitment.