Workshop: Ninth International Workshop on Modeling in Crystal Growth (IWMCG-9); Kailua-Kona, Hawaii; 21-24 October 2018

第九届晶体生长建模国际研讨会（IWMCG-6）将汇集来自美国、欧洲、亚洲和世界其他地区的学术界和工业界的顶级高级和有前途的初级研究人员，以确定共同的优先事项，交流新思想，并促进未来的合作工作。本次研讨会于2018年10月21日至24日在夏威夷举行，地处美国和亚洲之间的理想位置，以成功召开三年一次的这一主题会议的历史为基础。该奖项将支持另外五名在美国的年轻研究人员（研究生、博士后研究员和年轻教师）参加研讨会，在那里他们将接触到前沿研究，并接触到该领域广泛的国际社会。研讨会的主题是晶体生长，这一领域已被国家研究委员会确定为具有重要战略意义，需要在美国得到加强。该领域的进展将影响先进的制造工艺，影响信息、能源、国防和探测器系统的电子和光子器件，精细化学品和药品的生产等。这些水晶基系统的改进将有利地影响与国家繁荣、国防和健康相关的广泛领域。除了促进该领域研究人员之间的讨论和合作外，本次研讨会的支持将促进一个重要而及时的研究课题。晶体生长本身是非常有趣和重要的，建模这样的过程，本研讨会的重点，本质上是跨学科的，要求很高。从基本的角度来看，研究晶体生长有助于理解热力学相变、相关的自组装和模式形成现象，以及生长的动力学和输运限制。从技术的角度来看，一个成功的晶体生长过程代表了一个典型的先进制造系统，其成功的建模和随后的理解、控制和优化本质上是具有挑战性和价值的。美国国家科学基金会的支持将使美国的年轻研究人员有机会通过国际接触和未来在该领域的合作来推进他们的职业生涯。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Ninth International Workshop on Modeling in Crystal Growth (IWMCG-6) will bring together top senior and promising junior researchers of both academe and industry from the United States, Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world to identify common priorities, allow the exchange of new ideas, and foster future collaborative work. This workshop, held from October 21-24, 2018, and ideally situated mid-way between the United States and Asia in Hawaii, builds upon a history of successful triennial meetings on this topic. This award will support five additional U.S.-based young researchers (graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and young faculty) to participate in the symposium, where they will be exposed to cutting-edge research and to the broadly-based, international community of this field. The topic of the workshop addresses an area, crystal growth, that has been identified by the National Research Council as strategically important and in need of strengthening in the U.S. Advances in this area will impact advanced manufacturing processes that affect electronic and photonic devices for information, energy, defense, and detector systems, the production of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and more. Improvements in these crystal-base systems will favorably impact wide-ranging domains relevant to national prosperity, defense, and health.In addition to promoting discourse and collaboration among researchers in this area, the support of this workshop will promote an important and timely research topic. Crystal growth is itself profoundly interesting and significant, and modeling such processes, the focus of this workshop, is inherently interdisciplinary and demanding. From a fundamental vantage point, studying crystal growth yields important understanding of thermodynamic phase change, associated self-assembly and pattern-formation phenomena, and kinetic and transport limitations to growth. From a technological viewpoint, a successful crystal growth process represents a quintessential advanced manufacturing system, whose successful modeling and subsequent understanding, control, and optimization are inherently challenging and valuable. NSF support will allow young researchers in the U.S. an opportunity to advance their careers through international exposure and future collaboration in this area.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.