Conference Support for the Fourteenth International Meeting on Ferroelectricity

非技术描述：第十四届铁电学国际会议（IMF2017）将于2017年9月4日至8日在美国德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行。这是这一系列国际会议第一次在圣安东尼奥举行，并由西班牙裔服务研究所赞助/组织。为提高来自代表性不足的学院和经济增长国家的学生的参与，作出了特别的努力。会议将有来自50多个不同国家和地区的研究人员参加，其中包括来自南美国家的大量研究人员。相当多的与会者将是学生，相当多的与会者是女性。会议将在全球范围内宣传材料研究，并通过拓宽学生/博士后的网络、职业道路和扩大合作机会，为他们带来积极的影响。成功的IMF2017会议将宣传和加速铁电学领域的研究，提高竞争力，并对先进的电子设备和技术产生广泛的影响。技术细节：IMF系列会议提供了一个平台，汇集了来自学术界、工业界和政府实验室的研究人员，分享他们在该领域的最新知识，并介绍了铁电在各种跨学科和交叉耦合研究领域的新应用的发展。会议提供了许多新的新兴的铁性和多铁性材料的包容性和累积性的理解。这次重要会议的主要主题和推动力是展示/探索最近的发展，使人们对铁电性有了新的认识，各种新材料设计和新型材料合成方法，以及在半导体，磁性和生物材料等各种材料之间产生新颖，新兴和交叉耦合效应的领域的进展。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The Fourteenth International Meeting on Ferroelectricity (IMF2017) is being held Sept. 4-8, 2017, at San Antonio, Texas, USA. It is the first time this series of international meeting is being hosted at San Antonio and sponsored/organized by a Hispanic Serving Institute. Special attempts are made in order to enhance the students' participation from underrepresented institutes and from countries of growing economies. The meeting is to be attended by researchers coming from more than 50 different countries and regions, including substantial participation of researchers from South American countries. A significant number of attendees will be students and a substantial number of the attendees are women. The meeting will publicize materials research worldwide and bring positive impact to student/postdoctoral participants by broadening their networks, career pathways and expanding their collaboration opportunities. A successful IMF2017 meeting will publicize and accelerate research in the field of ferroelectrics which heightens competitiveness and brings broad impact in advanced electronic devices and technologies.TECHNICAL DETAILS: The IMF meeting series provides a platform to bring together researchers from academia, industry and government laboratories to share their latest knowledge in the field and to present the development of novel applications of ferroelectricity in various interdisciplinary and cross-coupled research areas. The conference provides an inclusive and cumulative understanding of the many novel emerging ferroic and multiferroic materials. The major themes and drivers of this premier meeting have been to present/explore the recent developments enabling a new understanding of ferroelectricity, various new materials design and novel materials synthesis approaches, and advances in the field that bring out novel, emerging, and cross-coupled effects among various materials including semiconductor, magnetic and biological materials.