Student Travel Support to Attend the 2014 Gaseous Electronics Conference in Raleigh NC 2 November 2014 - 8 November 2014

气体电子学会议（GEC）是LTP（低温等离子体）与碰撞物理（CP）相结合的科学和技术的主要国际会议。该会议首次介绍了LTP和CP领域的世界领先研究进展，包括先进燃烧系统、照明和激光、与半导体和光伏产业相关的等离子体材料加工以及等离子体在生物医学中的应用。受邀的演讲者代表了这些领域的世界顶尖科学家。任何领域的未来都取决于吸引聪明的年轻人。GEC有鼓励和促进学生参与的优良传统。GEC拥有令人羡慕的声誉，因为它是许多社区主要成员作为研究生首次展示他们的研究成果的会议。该奖项为博士生参加会议并在会议上展示他们的工作成果提供部分旅费支持。这一提议的智力价值包括与来自世界各地的研究人员进行点对点合作的机会。GEC是一个中等规模的会议，大约有400名与会者，它提供了一个环境，不仅在同行之间分享新发现，而且经常启动合作研究工作和未来的努力。这项提议的更广泛影响包括年轻科学家有机会参加他们所在领域的杰出会议之一。他们将有机会亲自观察该领域的科学和文化多样性，并有望与国际同行建立长期的合作关系。GEC特别努力支持女性和代表性不足的少数民族的研究生。

The Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) is the leading international conference in the science and technology of LTP (Low Temperature Plasmas) combined with collision physics (CP). The conference has been the venue of the first presentations on world leading developments in investigations of LTP and CP topics including advanced combustion systems, lighting and lasers, plasma materials processing of relevance to the semiconductor and photovoltaics industry, and plasma application in biomedicine. The invited speakers represent the world's leading scientists in these fields. The future of any field depends upon attracting bright young people. The GEC has a strong tradition of encouraging and promoting student participation. The GEC has an enviable reputation of being the first conference that many of the leading members of the community presented their first research results as graduate students. This award pays partial travel support for PhD students to attend and present the results of their work at the meeting. The intellectual merits of this proposal include the opportunity for peer to peer collaboration with researchers from around the world. The GEC, being a moderate size conference of approximately 400 attendees, presents an environment where not only are new discoveries shared among peers, but collaborate research efforts and future endeavors are often initiated.The broader impacts of this proposal include the opportunity for young scientists to attend one of the preeminent conferences in their field. They will have the opportunity to observe first-hand the scientific and cultural diversity of the field, and establish what will hopefully be career long collaborations with their international counterparts. The GEC makes a special effort to support graduate students who are women and underrepresented minorities.