The 8th Japan-U.S. Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, July 13-16, 2014 in Santa Cruz, California

本提案的主要目的是支持参加第八届美日纳米尺度输运现象联合研讨会。申请资助若干美国研究人员的差旅费和住宿费，以及所有学生和博士后的注册费。该研讨会定于2014年7月13日至16日在加州圣克鲁斯举行。这次研讨会将聚焦于一系列广泛的技术，这些技术将受益于对纳米尺度传输和能量转换过程的更好理解。研讨会将提供未来的研究方向，并促进两国研究人员之间的新的互动和合作。预计这次研讨会将导致美国和日本之间的联合研究论文，交换学生，博士后研究员和教师，以及共享研究设施。研讨会还将提供一个跨学科的国际论坛，讨论和确定纳米热物理和能量转换领域的杰出科学和技术问题。预定讨论的主题有：新兴二维材料中的热输运；纳米电子设备;新型纳米结构热电、光电和光伏器件中的热现象生物系统中的热传递以及纳米和生物流体系统中的热传递；理论和计算方法，包括密度泛函理论，分子动力学和蒙特卡罗模拟纳米结构中的能量转换和传输。研讨会将提供三个具体的特点，直接有利于国家科学基金会和研究界。(I)会议旨在集中讨论由于近年来技术进步而目前触手可及的新兴/未确定的研究领域。这些讨论的结果将发表在一份领先的杂志上，并将提供给美国国家科学基金会。（二）将录音并通过互联网公开（取决于获得个别演讲者的批准）。这将使在会议上提出的技术细节得到更广泛的传播。（三）为了量化和记录这一专家技术社区的总体优先事项，将在头两天对与会者进行匿名调查，在讲习班的最后一天迅速汇编和讨论结果，并作为档案期刊论文的一部分进一步传播。青年科研人员将优先获得经费支持。NSF的旅费支持将主要提供给初级参与者，其中包括至少5名研究生，2名博士后研究人员和8名助理教授。

CBET-144345DamesThe main objective of this proposal is to support participation at the Eighth U.S Japan Joint Workshop on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena. This proposal requests support to subsidize the travel and lodging expenses of several investigators from the US, and the registration fees for all students and postdocs. The workshop is scheduled to be held July 13-16, 2014 in Santa Cruz, California. The workshop will focus on a broad array of technologies will benefit from a better understanding of nanoscale transport and energy conversion processes. The workshop will provide future research directions and catalyzing new interactions and collaborations of researchers in both countries. It is anticipated that this workshop will result in joint research papers, exchange of students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty, as well as sharing of research facilities between the U.S. and Japan. The workshop will additionally provide a cross disciplinary and international forum for discussing and identifying outstanding science and technology issues in the area of nanoscale thermophysics and energy conversion. Some topics scheduled for discussion are: thermal transport in emerging 2D materials; nanoelectronic devices; thermal phenomena in novel nanostructured thermoelectric, optoelectronic, and photovoltaic devices; thermal transport in biological systems and transport in nano and bio fluidic systems; and theoretical and computational methods including density functional theory, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations for energy conversion and transport in nanostructures. The workshop will offer three specific features with direct benefit to NSF and the research community. (I) The sessions are designed to focus discussion on emerging/unidentified research areas that are currently within reach due to the technical advancements in recent years. The results of these discussions will be published in a leading journal and will be made available to NSF. (II) The talks will be recorded and made publically available via the internet (contingent on obtaining approval from individual speakers). This will enable much broader dissemination of the technical detail presented at the conference. (III) To quantify and document the overall priorities of this expert technical community, an anonymous survey of conference attendees will be conducted during the first two days,, with results rapidly compiled and discussed on the final day of the workshop, and further disseminated as part of an archival journal paper. Preference of funding support will be given to young investigators. The NSF travel support will primarily be given to junior participants, who include at least five graduate students, two post doctoral researchers, and eight assistant professors.