GRC Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow: Fundamental Challenges and Applications of Particulate Systems, July 20-25, 2014

NSF的资金将用于支持初级和早期职业科学家和工程师在2014年戈登研究会议上关于颗粒和颗粒流体流动的注册和旅行费用。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、全国性的需求，即继续培训未来的粒子技术劳动力。颗粒材料在一系列工业和自然系统中随处可见，但对许多现象的定量理解仍然难以捉摸，预测能力仍然有限。这一领域的进步需要多个科学和工程学科的参与，每个学科都有自己的目标和技术。作为这一主题跨学科性质的一个例子，拟议的会议将突出与制药业和大宗材料加工业的联系，并将重点放在颗粒介质中剪切诱导转变的基本和应用方面。GRC为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提供了一个独特的论坛。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 2014 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 materials are ubiquitous in a range of industrial and natural systems, yet a quantitative understanding of many phenomena remains elusive and predictive capabilities remain limited. Advances in this field require the participation of multiple scientific and engineering disciplines, each of which has its own goals and techniques. As an example of the interdisciplinary nature of this subject, the proposed conference will highlight connections to the pharmaceutical industry and to the bulk materials processing industry and will focus on the basic and applied aspects of shear-induced transitions in granular media. 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 The guiding principles of the conference include the presentation of new, unpublished work followed by free, unhampered discussion among participants from disciplines that normally do not intersect.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.