Conference: North American Summer School on Photonic Materials. To be Held June, 15-19, 2019 at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada.

光子和光学材料使各种先进技术成为可能，包括生产/制造;机器视觉;医疗和生命科学;系统和信息，以及传感器和测量工具等产品;消费电子产品;办公自动化;印刷;在过去的几十年中，光通信、用于平板显示器、照明、国防光化学已经改变了用新材料操纵能量和光学的方式。Photonics 21在2017年进行的一项市场研究表明，2015年全球光子产品市场规模为5070亿美元。在2011年至2015年的四年期间，该市场以6.2%的复合年增长率增长。尽管光子材料在日常生活中发挥着如此重要的作用，但在美国，甚至在全世界，很少有大学为学生提供教育机会，让他们在足够先进的水平上学习这门学科（融合光学和材料科学学科），以实现多学科突破，推动光子材料研发的最新发展。即使是提供光子材料课程的少数机构也不提供制作和表征此类材料的实践经验。这个为期一周的国际暑期学校（学校）将弥合这一脱节，填补了材料科学与工程的高级本科生和研究生以及从事相关研究的博士后培训的空白。美国陶瓷协会及其玻璃和光学材料部门沿着陶瓷和玻璃工业基金会将协助招聘、评估和选择合格的申请人。该中心d 'Optique，Photonique et Laser（COPL）在拉瓦尔大学，魁北克市，加拿大，这是在光学和光子学领域的世界领先的机构，将主办学校，2019年6月15日至19日。它主动提出开放其实验室，供参与者开展以团队为基础的实践项目。该学院将由来自6个国家的22位国际专家组成，他们将向与会者介绍光子和光学材料的五个互补方面：1.光学材料范围; 2.光子材料的性质与表征; 3.光纤和基于光纤的光子系统; 4.用于系统应用的先进材料，特别是平面光子材料;以及5.展望了光子材料的需求，特别是关系到下一代光子技术的需求。该学院将培训40名学生和10名博士后，他们将组成跨学科的导师/学员团队，使用基于讲座的教程来解决基于实验室的实验和理论问题。大约一半的与会者将从美国机构中选出，来自世界其他地区的人数相等。美国学生的参与将由利哈伊大学管理。除了将学生与世界领先的讲师聚集在一起，学院还将帮助建立一个年轻的光子材料科学家的国际社区，他们将准备在推进光子和光学材料的状态的同时进行合作和建立职业生涯。 总的来说，第一个北美光子材料暑期学校承诺提供一个最有效的机制，以培养最好的年轻材料研究人员在尖端的光子和光学材料研究的骨干。NSF的支持将确保美国年轻科学家参与这一特殊的国际教育体验。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Photonic and optical materials enable various advanced technologies including production/manufacturing; machine vision; medical and life sciences; systems and information, as well as products like sensors and measurement tools; consumer electronics; office automation; printing; etc. Within the past decades, advances in optical communications, components and systems for flat panel displays, lighting, defense, and photovoltaics have transformed the way energy and optics are manipulated with novel materials. A 2017 market research by Photonics21 determined the global market for photonics products at $507 billion in 2015. During the four-year period, 2011 - 2015, this market grew at a compound annual growth rate of 6.2%. In spite of such strong role of photonic materials in everyday life, few universities in the United States, indeed the whole world, offer educational opportunities for the students to learn the subject at a sufficiently advanced level (blending optics and materials science disciplines) to enable multi-disciplinary breakthroughs that advance the state of art in photonic materials R&D. Even the few institutions that offer a course in photonic materials do not provide hands-on, practical experience for the making and characterization of such materials. This one-week long international summer school (the School) will bridge this disconnect, filling the void in the training of advanced undergraduate and graduate students of materials science and engineering, and postdocs engaged in related research. The American Ceramic Society and its Glass and Optical Materials Division along with the Ceramic and Glass Industry Foundation will assist in the recruiting, assessing and selection of the qualified applicants. The Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Laser (COPL) at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, which is a leading institution in the world in the area of the Optics and Photonics, will host the School, June 15-19, 2019. It has offered to open its laboratories for the participants to carry out hands-on team-based projects. It will also provide logistical support and facilitate interfacing with the strong local Photonic industry base.The School will comprise of lectures by 22 international experts from six countries, who will introduce the participants to five complementary aspects of photonic and optical materials: 1. Scope of optical materials; 2. Properties and characterization of photonic materials; 3. Fibers and fiber-based photonic systems; 4. Advanced materials for system applications, especially planar photonic materials; and 5. Outlook for photonic materials, especially in relation the needs of next generation photonic technology needs. The School will train 40 students and 10 postdocs who will form interdisciplinary, mentor/mentee teams to use lecture based tutorials to solve lab-based experimental and theoretical problems. Approximately half the attendee cohort will be selected from US institutions, and an equal number from the rest of the world. The participation of US students will be managed by Lehigh University. In addition to bringing students together with world-leading lecturers, the School will help establish an international community of young photonic materials scientists who will be prepared to collaborate and build careers while advancing the state of photonic and optical materials. Overall, the first North American Summer School on Photonic Materials promises to provide a most effective mechanism to train best cadre of young materials researchers in the cutting edge photonic and optical materials research. The support from NSF will ensure the participation of young US scientists in this exceptional, international educational experience.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.