Material Measurement Symposium in the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting 2012; San Francisco, California; 9-13 April 2012

材料测量研讨会将于2012年4月9日至13日在加州旧金山举行。申请的资金将用于支持参加会议的研究生和博士后。本次材料测量研讨会将包括100多篇会议论文，其中邀请演讲15篇，贡献演讲58篇，以及15场技术会议（13场口头会议，2场海报会议）的30多篇论文。研讨会的重点是新兴的表征技术，这些技术有望帮助揭示支撑能量存储和转换系统性能和寿命的微观机制。本次研讨会将汇集不同学科的科学家和工程师，以解决在瞬态和非平衡状态下表征材料和能量系统的最具挑战性的问题。

Funds are requested to help support the Material Measurement Symposium to be held at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California, April 9-13, 2012. The funds requested will be used to support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows attending the meeting. The Material Measurement Symposium will consist more than 100 conference papers, including 15 invited talks, 58 contributed talks, and more than 30 contributed posters over 15 technical sessions (13 oral and 2 poster). The focus of the symposium is on emerging characterization techniques that hold the promise the help reveal the microscopic mechanisms underpinning the performance and life time of energy storage and conversion systems. This symposium will bring together scientists and engineers across various disciplines to address the most challenging issues in characterizing materials and energy systems in transient and nonequilibrium states.