2012 Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow GRC to be held July 22 - 27, 2012 at Davidson College in Davidson, NC

NSF的资金将用于支持初级和早期职业科学家和工程师在2012年戈登颗粒和颗粒流体流动研究会议上的注册和旅行费用。我们还将利用这些资金支持任职人数不足的群体的成员参加。这种支持将填补一个关键的国家需求，即继续培训未来的颗粒技术劳动力。颗粒流普遍存在于一系列自然和工业系统中，该领域的研究是在多个科学和工程领域进行的，每个科学和工程都有自己的目标和技术。今年的会议将讨论地球物理、湿颗粒材料、带电颗粒材料、颗粒气体、颗粒流的连续介质模型、振动与声学、剪切颗粒材料和摩擦与阻力。通过邀请感兴趣的演讲者，从石油开采到环境动力学，从土木工程到地震，演讲者被选中突出与地球物理和岩土颗粒材料的联系。在挑选受邀的讲者时，我们已注意到包括代表人数不足的群体的成员。GRC提供了一个独特的论坛，供各学科之间以及初级和高级研究人员之间交流新的科学思想。会议的指导原则包括介绍新的、未发表的作品，然后在来自通常不相交的学科的与会者之间自由、不受阻碍地进行讨论。Structure GRC通过在每次演讲后提供正式讨论时段(由讨论负责人指导)、小组讨论时间、每日海报会议以及与现场住房共享用餐来实现这一点。每位讨论负责人将准备一份简短的演示文稿，以提供背景并引发良好的讨论。这种形式提供了一种环境，可以在其中建立新的协作来帮助解决长期存在的问题。

NSF funds will be used to support the registration and travel costs for junior and early career scientists and engineers at the 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Granular and Granular-Fluid Flows. We will also use these funds to support participation by members of underrepresented groups. Such support will fill a crucial, national need to continue to train the future work force in the science of particle technology.Granular flows are prevalent in a range of natural and industrial systems, and research in the field is conducted within multiple scientific and engineering, each of which has its own goals and techniques. This year's conference will have sessions on Geophysics, Wet Granular Materials, Charged Granular Materials, Granular Gases, Continuum Models of Granular Flow, Vibration & Acoustics, Sheared Granular Materials, and Friction & Drag. Speakers were selected to highlight connections to geophysics and geotechnical granular materials by inviting speakers with interests spanning from oil recovery to environmental dynamics to civil engineering to earthquakes. In selecting invited speakers, we have taken care to include members of under-represented groups.The GRC provides a unique forum for the exchange of fresh scientific ideas between disciplines, as well as between junior and senior researchers. The guiding principles of the conference include the presentation of new, unpublished work followed by free, unhampered discussion among participants from disciplines that normally do not intersect. The structure GRC accomplishes this by providing formal discussion periods after every talk (guided by a discussion leader), time for small-group discussions, daily poster sessions, and shared meals with on-site housing. Each discussion leader will prepare a short presentation to provide context and provoke good discussions. This format provides an environment in which new collaborations can be forged to help tackle longstanding problems.