Travel support for invited speakers to attend 86th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium at Johns Hopkins University, June 10-13, 2012

1201597 PI：Bevan该奖项将部分支付受邀演讲者参加2012年6月10日至13日在约翰霍普金斯大学举行的第86届ACS胶体和表面科学研讨会的相关差旅费。受邀演讲者的参与对于会议的成功至关重要，因为它吸引了最优秀的演讲者，并使研究生与会者了解胶体和表面科学领域的最新技术。约翰霍普金斯大学2012年胶体和表面科学研讨会的智力价值在于，它提供了一个论坛，用于交流胶体和表面科学的新见解，现有的复杂流体和先进材料应用以及新兴的纳米和生物技术。由于其广泛的范围，本次会议通常吸引来自不同学科（如化学，化学工程，材料科学，物理等）的500-700名与会者。以及几乎所有美国主要学术机构和许多领先的国际机构。与会者和会谈的多样性进一步体现在理论，计算和实验小组的贡献以及来自工业，政府和学术界等所有部门的科学家和工程师的参与。本次研讨会为所有与会者，包括研究生，传播他们自己的研究成果，并了解邀请的全体会议和主旨发言人的最新工作，他们代表了国际公认的从事胶体和表面科学与工程问题研究的最优秀的研究人员。这一提议的更广泛的影响是，NSF的资金将用于确保以下人员的参与和出席：在我们的研讨会上的首要研究人员，从而保证国家的最先进的研究传播给所有与会者，以及对研究生与会者的教育和培训的影响。这个会议传统上是研究生的一个很好的论坛，我们预计大约四分之一的与会者将是研究生，他们将在他们的博士项目上做口头报告或海报。通过获得最好的国内和国际演讲者的旅行支持，这种支持符合NSF的使命，即传播NSF支持的研究成果，教育和培训学生，创造明天的高科技劳动力。所申请的资金将通过降低注册费用来支持受邀演讲者的差旅，以便他们能够优先考虑传统上在科学和工程学科中代表性不足的群体参加会议。

1201597PI: BevanThis award will partially cover travel costs associated with invited speakers attending the 86th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium at Johns Hopkins University, June 10-13, 2012. Invited speaker participation is critical to the meeting's success in terms of attracting the best contributed talks and exposing graduate student attendees to the state of the art in the fields of colloid and surface science.The intellectual merit of the 2012 colloid and surface science symposium at Johns Hopkins University is that it provides a forum for communicating fundamentally new insights into colloidal and surface science with relevance to existing complex fluids and advanced materials applications as well as emerging nano- and bio- technologies. Due to its broad scope, this meeting typically attracts 500-700 attendees from diverse disciplines (e.g. Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, etc.) and nearly all major US academic institutions and many leading international institutions. The diversity of the attendees and the talks is further represented by contributions from theoretical, computational, and experimental groups and the participation of scientists and engineers from all sectors including industry, government, and academia. This symposium provides an opportunity for all attendees, including graduate students, to disseminate their own research findings and to learn about the latest work of invited plenary and keynote speakers who represent the best internationally recognized investigators working on problems involving colloid and surface science and engineering.The broader impacts of this proposal are that funds from the NSF will be used to ensure the participation and attendance of premier researchers at our symposium, and thus guarantee dissemination of state-of-the-art research to all attendees as well as an impact on the education and training of graduate student attendees. This meeting has traditionally been a good forum for graduate students, and we expect that about a quarter of the meeting attendees will be graduate students presenting oral presentations or posters on their PhD projects. By acquiring travel support the best domestic and international speakers, this support is in line with NSF's mission to disseminate research findings from NSF supported research and educate and train students to create tomorrow's high tech work force. The requested funds will support invited speaker travel via reduced registration costs so they can participate in the meeting with preference given to groups traditionally under-represented in science and engineering discipline.