Conference:Scialog:Accelerating Scientific Breakthroughs in Solar Energy Conversion with Team Science and Dialog 2013. The conference will be held at Biosphere 2 near Tucson, AZ.

研究目标和方法本研究的目标是加速太阳能转化为电力和燃料的突破。 该方法是通过向具有高度创新思想的研究人员提供赠款，支持会议上的密集对话和跨学科社区建设，从而实现这一目标。 获得赠款的科学家通常不超过五年的收入任期。 这些获奖者准备尝试真正的变革性研究项目，这些项目在争取终身职位的过程中风险太大。每年的会议在生物圈2号举行，由不同的科学家群体参加，他们参加高度互动的会议，以确定瓶颈，寻找突破的途径，并建立新的科学团队来促进突破。将这些杰出的早期职业获奖者与其他杰出的研究人员召集在一起，从事创造性对话和建立科学团队的替代方法，将对太阳能转换领域产生变革性的影响。 科学家正在展示一种新的方法，召集科学家加速高风险研究，并表明真实对话是一种有效的科学方法。Broader ImpactSciencies将直接支持大约40名美国早期杰出学术科学家及其研究小组的高风险项目，包括博士后研究人员，本科生和研究生以及技术人员，其中许多人是女性和/或来自代表性不足的少数民族。 在这种支持的基础上，这些年轻研究人员中的许多人将准备成为美国下一代科学创新者的先锋。

Research Objectives and ApproachesThe objective of this research is to accelerate breakthroughs in solar energy conversion to electricity and fuels. The approach is to attain this objective through synergy created by grants to researchers with highly innovative ideas, support for intensive dialog at conferences and community building across disciplines. Scientists who receive grants are typically not more than five years past earning tenure. Such awardees are poised to attempt truly transformative research projects that were too risky while working toward tenure. Annual meetings are held at Biosphere 2 and are attended by a diverse group of scientists who participate in highly interactive sessions to identify bottlenecks, find avenues for breakthroughs, and build new scientific teams to facilitate the breakthroughs. Intellectual MeritConvening these outstanding early career awardees with other preeminent researchers to engage in alternative methods for creative dialog and for building scientific teams will have a transformative impact on the field of solar energy conversion. Scialog is demonstrating a novel approach to convening scientists to accelerate high-risk research and showing that authentic dialog is a valid scientific methodology. Broader ImpactScialog will directly support high risk projects for approximately forty outstanding early career U.S. academic scientists and their research groups, including postdoctoral researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and technicians, many of whom are women and/or from underrepresented minorities. Based on this support, many of these young researchers will be prepared to form the vanguard of the next generation of U.S. scientific innovators.