2012 Plasma Processing Science GRC & GRS, July 22-27, 2012, at Bryant University, Smithfield, RI

1202232变化世界在能源、人类健康和环境可持续性方面面临着重大挑战。等离子体科学和技术，由于其固有的非平衡性质，有望成为许多关键技术的核心，这些技术需要为这些重大挑战提供突破性的解决方案。2012年戈登等离子体处理科学研究会议将以一个全面的项目为特色，该项目将突出等离子体科学和技术的前沿科学进展，并探索这种非平衡介质在许多重大社会挑战的可能方法中的应用。基础科学课程将集中于等离子体动力学和化学，等离子体表面相互作用，以及等离子体产生和多相等离子体的最新趋势。应用环节将探讨等离子体技术在可再生能源、从可再生原料和碳中性太阳能燃料生产燃料以及等离子体医学和灭菌方面的影响。智力上的优点是通过将该领域的领导者与初级研究人员和研究生在非正式的气氛中聚集在一起，促进对基础等离子体科学的认识和理解。戈登会议的特殊形式，安排了讨论环节，并在下午和晚上为非正式聚会提供了充足的时间，将为与会者提供一个头脑风暴和创造性思维的肥沃氛围。这些计划中的活动侧重于探索等离子体加工科学中的创造性原创概念以及变革性概念。计划在周末举行的戈登·凯南研究研讨会将与2012年戈登等离子体处理科学研究会议（GRC-PPS）同时举行，这将最好地展示会议的更广泛影响。这个研讨会的特点是出席仅限于研究生和博士后助理，允许在一个没有威胁的环境中进行科学互动。它旨在促进前沿发现和理解的交流，同时促进该领域年轻研究人员之间的指导、同行评审和学习。讨论会一直并将继续帮助扩大代表性不足的群体（如性别、种族、残疾、地理等）的参与。对社会的好处包括等离子体处理科学的下一代科学家的教育和利用等离子体处理科学的技术重要领域的进步。

1202232ChangThe world faces significant grand challenges in the areas of energy, human health, and environmental sustainability. Plasma science and technology, due to its intrinsic nonequilibrium nature, is expected to be at the heart of many key enabling technologies that are needed to provide breakthrough solutions for these grand challenges. The 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science will feature a comprehensive program that will highlight cutting edge scientific advances in plasma science and technology as well as explore the applications of this nonequilibrium medium in possible approaches relative to many grand societal challenges. Fundamental science sessions will focus on plasma kinetics and chemistry, plasma surface interactions, and recent trends in plasma generation and multi-phase plasmas. Application sessions will explore the impact of plasma technology in renewable energy, the production of fuels from renewable feedstocks and carbon neutral solar fuels, and plasma-enabled medicine and sterilization. The intellectual merit is to advance the knowledge and understanding in basic plasma science by bringing together leaders in the field in an informal atmosphere with junior investigators and graduate students. The special format of the Gordon Conferences, with programmed discussion sessions and ample time for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, will provide for a fertile atmosphere of brainstorming and creative thinking among the attendees. These planned activities focus on exploring creative original concepts as well as transformative concepts in plasma processing science. The broader impact of the conference is best demonstrated by the planned weekend-long Gordon Kenan Research Seminar, which will take place associated with 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science (GRC-PPS). This seminar features attendance limited to graduate students and post-doctoral associates, allowing for scientific interaction in a non-threatening environment. It is designed to foster exchanges of advance discovery and understanding while promoting mentorship, peer review and learning amongst young researchers in this field. The seminar has been and will continue to help broaden the participation of underrepresented groups (e.g. gender, ethnicity, disability, geographic etc.). The benefits to the society includes the education of the future generation of the scientists in plasma processing science and the advancement in technologically important areas utilizing plasma processing science.