Proposal for Conference/Workshop Support for CECAM workshop: Self-assembly: from fundamental Principles to Design Rules for Experiment; Lausanne, Switzerland; March 1 - 3, 2013

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1256701 PI: Hagan， Michael ORG：布兰迪斯大学标题：会议/研讨会支持CECAM研讨会的提案：自组装：从基本原则到实验设计规则智力优点：该提案要求提供资金，以支持7名早期职业生涯的美国科学家参加在瑞士洛桑的欧洲计算原子与分子中心（CECAM）举行的一个研讨会。本次研讨会旨在汇集计算机模拟器和实验学家，他们的工作与控制软物质自组装的基本规则有关。参与者将不是通过对特定物理系统的研究而团结起来，而是通过对控制组装的力量的关注。提议的演讲者名单是高度多学科的，包括理论物理学家，病毒学家，合成生物学家和材料科学家。尽管他们有共同的兴趣，研究生物组合的研究人员和研究结晶的研究人员很少重叠。CECAM研讨会的形式提供了一个理想的环境，将这些领域的成员聚集在一起，从这些领域中使用的主题和互补技术的共性中受益。更广泛的影响：预计该研讨会将产生比典型会议更广泛的影响。来自广泛学科、地理位置和职业阶段的演讲者和与会者将进行密集的小组讨论。因此，具有不同专业领域、经验水平、性别和种族背景的参与者将密切互动。NSF将资助新兴科学家（学生、博士后和初级教师）和代表性不足的群体，以增加他们的参与。这种支持将有助于满足国家在纳米技术和生物研究领域培训未来科学界的迫切需要。此外，通过鼓励美国科学家通过美国国家科学基金会的支持参加，研讨会将有助于增加美国与欧洲软物质社区的接触。

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1256701 PI: Hagan, Michael ORG: Brandeis UniversityTitle: Proposal for Conference/Workshop Support for CECAM workshop: Self-assembly: from fundamental principles to design rules for experimentINTELLECTUAL MERIT: The proposal asks for funds to support the travel and subsistence costs for seven early-career US scientists to attend a workshop to be held at the Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire (CECAM) in Lausanne, Switzerland. This workshop aims to bring together computer simulators and experimentalists whose work bears upon the fundamental rules that govern soft matter self-assembly. Participants will be united not by their study of a particular physical system, but by their focus on the forces that control assembly. The proposed speaker list is highly multidisciplinary, and includes theoretical physicists, virologists, synthetic biologists, and materials scientists. Despite their common interests, researchers who study biological assemblages and those who study crystallization rarely overlap. The format of a CECAM workshop provides an ideal environment to bring members of these fields together to benefit from commonalities in subject and complementary techniques used in each of these fields.BROADER IMPACTS: It is anticipated that the workshop will have a much broader impact than that realized from a typical conference. Speakers and attendees from a wide range of disciplines, geographical locations, and career stages will engage in intensive small-group discussions. Thus, participants with different areas of expertise, experience levels, genders, and ethnic backgrounds will interact closely. NSF funding support will be given to both emerging scientists (students, postdocs, and junior faculty) and under-represented groups in order to increase their participation. Such support will help fulfill the urgent, national need to train the future scientific community in the areas of nanotechnology and biological research. Furthermore, by encouraging US scientists to attend through NSF support, the workshop will serve to increase the engagement of the US with the European soft matter community.