Travel Grant for Seventh Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference, Greece

PI：Cramer，Steven M.建议编号：CBET-1137546机构：伦斯勒理工学院标题：第七届地中海化学工程会议旅费本提案要求美国学术代表出席2011年底或2012年在希腊举行的第七届东地中海化学工程会议(EMCC7)的旅费。帕特拉斯研究与技术基金会(FORTH)新陈代谢工程和系统生物学实验室主任玛丽亚·克拉帕教授将担任会议主席。参赛国包括希腊、土耳其、希腊、以色列、意大利、保加利亚、罗马尼亚和美国。本次会议的主要目标是(1)促进参与国之间的联系和潜在的研究合作(2)通过为与会者之间的互动提供论坛来加强参与国在化学工程方面的研究和教学(3)通过广泛的科学和个人交流对参与国产生重大的工业/社会影响。与本系列以前的会议一样，预计与会者将由来自美国的约25名学术化学工程师、来自东道国(希腊)的50名、来自意大利、土耳其、以色列的至少20名以及来自保加利亚、罗马尼亚和约旦的与会者组成。此外，预计将有大量来自东地中海参与国的研究生参加。这次会议将是一系列会议中的第七次。由史蒂夫·克雷默(Rensselaer)、尼克·阿博特(Nick Abbott)(威斯康星州)和亚历克斯·卡茨(Alex Katz)(伯克利分校)组成的美国EMCC协调委员会将组建一支一流的美国调查人员团队，他们不仅在研究方面非常优秀，而且非常致力于与其他参与国的调查人员建立和继续合作。预计将邀请大约25名美国演讲者。这将包括资深研究人员和有前途的年轻研究人员。还将向五名美国与会者提供特殊的旅行补贴，让他们在希腊和其他国家(以色列、土耳其、意大利、保加利亚或罗马尼亚)访问和演讲，以发展和/或促进合作。广泛影响：根据过去的会议结果，预计参加本次EMCC会议的美国工程师将受到重大而广泛的影响。前三届EMCC会议在让美国、土耳其、以色列和希腊学者了解他们的研究兴趣和能力以及促进研究合作方面产生了重大影响。第四、第五和第六次会议通过将会议扩大到包括意大利、保加利亚和罗马尼亚，提供了进一步的机会。这些会议的另一个好处是，它们为来自东地中海的大量研究生提供了直接与来自美国和其他国家的经验丰富的年轻教职研究人员互动的机会。这些会议为参与国教职员工就课程问题进行富有成效的讨论提供了极好的论坛。除了美国与会者将与其他国家的人进行个人接触外，促进研究和教学思想和人员的交流，并在美国化学工程师和东地中海国家的化学工程师之间建立研究合作将有利于美国的利益。将作出重大努力，将年轻和代表性不足的教职员工纳入美国参与者群体。潜在研究生的招聘也可能是非正式的。

PI: Cramer, Steven M.Proposal Number: CBET - 1137546Institution: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTitle: Travel Grant for Seventh Mediterranean Chemical Engineering ConferenceThis proposal requests for travel funds for U.S. academic representatives to attend the 7th Eastern Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference (EMCC7) to be held in Greece in late 2011 or 2012. Professor Maria Klapa, Head of the Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology Laboratory at the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) in Patras will be the Chair of the Conference. The participating countries will be Greece, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Italy, Bulgaria, Rumania and the United States. Academic chemical engineers from other Eastern Mediterranean countries will also be invited.Intellectual Merit: The majors goals of this conference are to (1) promote contacts and potential research collaboration between the participating countries (2) enhance research and teaching in chemical engineering in the participating countries by providing a forum for interaction among the participants (3) have significant industrial/societal impacts on the participating countries through the extensive scientific and personal exchanges. As has been the case for the previous conferences in this series, it is expected the participants will be made up of approximately 25 academic chemical engineers from the U.S., 50 from the host country (Greece), at least 20 from Italy, Turkey, Israel and participants from Bulgaria, Romania and Jordan. In addition, it is expected that a large number of graduate students will attend from the participating Eastern Mediterranean Countries. This conference will be the seventh conference of a series. The US EMCC coordinating committee consisting of Steve Cramer (Rensselaer), Nick Abbott (Wisconsin) and Alex Katz (Berkeley) will put together a team of first rate U.S. investigators who are both excellent in research and very committed to establishing and continuing collaborations with investigators from the other participating countries. It is expected that approximately25 U.S. presenters will be invited. This will include a blend of senior researchers and promising young investigators. Special travel supplements will also be provided to five US participants to visit and lecture in Greece and the other countries (Israel, Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria or Rumania) to develop and/or promote collaborations.Broader Impact: It is expected based on past conference results that there will be a significant and broad impact on the U.S. engineers attending this EMCC conference. The first three EMCC Conferences have had major impacts in acquainting US, Turkish, Israeli, and Greek academics with their research interests and capabilities and in fostering research collaborations. The fourth, fifth and sixth conferences provided further opportunities, by expanding the conference to include Italy, Bulgaria and Rumania. An added benefit of these conferences is the exposure they have provided for large numbers of graduate students from the Eastern Mediterranean to interact directly with both seasoned and young faculty researchers from the U.S. and other countries. These conferences have provided excellent forums for fruitful discussions on curriculum issues among faculty of the participating countries. In addition to the personal contacts that the U.S. participants will make with people from the other countries, it will be beneficial to U.S. interests to foster exchanges of research and teaching ideas and of personnel, and establish research collaborations between chemical engineers from the U.S. and chemical engineers from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. Significant efforts will be made to include both young and underrepresented faculty in the group of U.S. participants. It is also likely that recruitment of potential graduate students may occur informally.