Travel Support for 24th "International Union of Pure and Applied Physics" Triennial Conference on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (STATPHYS-24) Australia, 2010

该奖项为参加将于2010年7月19日至23日在澳大利亚凯恩斯举行的第24届国际统计物理学会议（statphys24）的学生、博士后和年轻教师提供旅费支持。该奖项由多学科活动办公室、化学部门、物理部门和材料研究部门提供支持。统计力学是一个跨学科的领域，从业人员来自化学、数学、生物学、物理学、计算机科学和工程科学。这个社区每三年召开一次重要的国际会议。这些会议是由国际纯粹与应用物理联合会（IUPAP）主办的。这个三年一次的系列会议于1949年在佛罗伦萨开始，一直持续到今天。从1986年波士顿会议开始，美国国家科学基金会就为没有其他支持的年轻研究人员提供旅行资助。该奖项将资助12-15名研究生和青年研究人员参与statphys24。一个代表各领域资深科学家的遴选委员会承诺公平地选出一个均衡的“NSF学者”群体，这些学者代表了统计力学界的所有学科，并特别关注合格的女性和少数族裔候选人。该奖项将通过允许年轻人参加重大国际会议，为美国科学的科学基础设施做出贡献。它将加强这些年轻人与来自澳大利亚和世界各地的同龄人的联系。

This award supports travel for students, postdoctoral associates and young faculty in order to attend STATPHYS-24, the 24th International Conference on Statistical Physics, to be held in Cairns, Australia 19-23 July, 2010. The award is supported by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, the Chemistry Division, the Physics Division and the Division of Materials Research. Statistical mechanics is a cross-disciplinary field with practitioners coming from chemistry, mathematics, biology, physics, computer science and the engineering sciences. Every three years, this community assembles a major international meeting. These meetings are sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). This triennial series of meetings started in Florence in 1949 and continues to the present day. Starting with the 1986 meeting in Boston, the NSF has awarded travel grants to enable young investigators without other support to participate. This award will enable 12-15 graduate students and young researchers to participate in STATPHYS-24. A selection committee representing a cross-section of senior scientists has committed to undertake a fair selection of a balanced group of "NSF Scholars," representing all disciplines of the statistical mechanics community and paying particular attention to qualified female and minority candidates. The award will contribute to the scientific infrastructure of U.S. science by permitting young people to participate in a major international meeting. It will strengthen the ties of these young people to their peers from Australia and around the world.