2012 Polymer Physics Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar

该高分子物理GRC旨在展示已建立的研究领域的令人兴奋的进展，并向社区介绍能源和生物应用领域的重要新兴主题。会议将有22个特邀讲座，其中开场10分钟是专门为普通聚合物物理学观众设计的。这次会议将聚集该领域的领军人物，并使他们彼此之间以及与年轻的研究人员（特别是研究生和博士后研究人员）进行广泛的接触。在许多天的正式和非正式环境中，通过GRC格式的静修氛围完成了广泛的讨论，这种氛围以建立和培养终身互动并点燃新的合作而闻名。除了这些讨论的科学内容之外，这也是一个指导的机会。PI为演讲者和讨论领导者设定了职业阶段、性别和地理方面的具体多样性目标。为了整合新的和回归的与会者，PI将继续最近的传统，演讲者？餐桌，演讲者与年轻科学家一起用餐的地方。本次会议还将举办高登聚合物物理研究研讨会（GRS）。GRS是学生和博士后在科学会议中担任领导角色的机会。与会者将通过口头和海报展示与同行分享当前的研究成果；建立可能发展为未来研究合作的早期专业关系；并获得一个范围的研究课题，方法和职业机会包含在聚合物物理领域的感觉。GRS是研究生和博士后在GRC水平的智力环境中讨论他们研究的场所，但听众是同龄人。与会者将与其他年轻科学家分享他们目前的研究成果，他们的观点和专业知识涵盖了聚合物物理学的研究主题和方法。与资深科学家导师的互动将阐明相应职业轨迹的范围。此外，学生将获得积极参与GRC的信心，在演讲后提出问题，并在用餐期间了解其他研究人员。更广泛地说，人们希望GRS能够在下一代高分子物理学领域的顶尖科学家中产生一种社区意识。

TECHNICAL AND NON-TECHNICAL ABSTRACTThis Polymer Physics GRC will be designed both to present exciting progress in well-established research areas, and to introduce the community to important emerging topics in the areas of energy and biological applications. The conference will feature 22 invited lectures, wherein the opening 10 minutes are specifically designed for a general polymer physics audience. This conference will gather leading people in the field and bring them into extended contact with one another and with younger researchers (specifically, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers). Extended discussions in both formal and informal settings over many days are accomplished by the retreat-like atmosphere of the GRC format that is known to build and nurture lifelong interactions and to ignite new collaborations. In addition to the scientific content of these discussions, it is also an opportunity for mentoring. The PI has set specific diversity objectives for the speakers and discussion leaders with respect to career stage, gender, and geography. To integrate the new and returning conferees, the PI will continue the recent tradition of a speakers? table, where speakers dine with junior scientists.This meeting will also offer the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) in Polymer Physics. The GRS is an opportunity for students and post-docs to assume the lead role in a scientific conference. Attendees will share current research with their peers through oral and poster presentations; initiate early professional relations that may develop into future research collaborations; and obtain a sense of the scope of research topics, methodologies, and career opportunities contained in the realm of polymer physics. The GRS is a venue for graduate students and postdocs to discuss their research in an intellectual environment of GRC caliber, but with an audience of peers. Attendees will share their current research with other young scientists whose perspectives and expertise span the range of research topics and methodologies in polymer physics. Interactions with senior-scientist mentors will illuminate the scope of corresponding career trajectories. In addition, students will gain the confidence to participate actively in the GRC, asking questions after talks and getting to know other researchers during meals. More generally, it is hoped that the GRS will engender a sense of community among the next generation of leading scientists in polymer physics.