Support for U.S. Participants at the 17th International Congress on Catalysis

该项目将为研究生参加将于2020年6月14日至19日在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥举行的第17届国际催化大会（ICC）提供支持。具体来说，这笔资金将部分支付约35名美国学术博士生参加大会的注册和旅费，并促进他们与国际催化界的互动。学生们将在会议上展示他们的研究成果，参加催化领域领导者的讲座，并与来自世界各地的同学互动。国际催化会议是全球最大的催化领域会议，每四年举行一次。国会上次在美国举行是在1996年。第17届国际商会的主题——2020年催化展望——旨在回顾过去，展望催化研究的未来，并在未来的背景下评估催化的现状。该计划将重点介绍在转移原料以及实验和计算方法的发现和发展背景下的最新发展、挑战和机遇。科学计划将包括全体会议和主题演讲，邀请和投稿论文和海报展示。所有国际会议的会议记录都以摘要的形式在网上发布。它们也构成了催化文献档案的重要组成部分。催化的关键重要性反映在美国所有制成品中有25-30%至少涉及一个催化步骤。由于本次会议将展示对美国利益至关重要的大量催化过程的进展，因此确保美国学术界和工业界的参与非常重要。此外，国际大会为美国学生提供了一个难得的机会，可以在催化界最负盛名的会议上与来自世界各地的同学和顶级研究人员进行互动。这将大大有助于保持美国的研究竞争力，同时也激励学生解决与催化过程相关的重大挑战。催化是一种广泛的科学和工程影响领域的使能技术，涉及环境污染控制、可持续性、能源和化学品等。学生在这些领域的培训和参与确保了未来的催化研究人员能够在科学和工程方面取得持续的进步，从而在未来几年服务于国家和社会的总体需求。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 project will provide support for graduate student participation in the 17th International Congress on Catalysis (ICC) to be held in San Diego, California (CA) on June 14-19, 2020. Specifically, the funding will partially cover registration and travel expenses of approximately 35 U.S. academic PhD students to attend the Congress and facilitate their interaction with the international catalysis community. The students will present their research at the conference, attend lectures by leaders in the field of catalysis, and interact with fellow students from around the world. The ICC meetings are the largest global meeting dedicated to catalysis, and are held once every four years. The Congress was last held in the United States in 1996. The theme of 17th ICC - 2020 Vision for Catalysis - aims to look into the future for catalysis research guided by the past and to assess the present state of catalysis in context of what lies ahead. The program will highlight recent developments,challenges, and opportunities in the context of shifting feedstocks and in the discovery and development of experimental and computational methods. The scientific program will include plenary and keynote lectures, invited and ontributed papers and poster presentations. The proceedings of all International Congresses are published as abstracts on the web. They also constitute a significant part of the archival literature on catalysis. The critical importance of catalysis is reflected by the fact that 25-30% of all manufactured goods in the United States involve at least one catalytic step. Because advances in a large number of catalytic processes, which are crucial to U.S. interests, will be presented at this meeting, it is important to ensure participation from both the U.S. academic and the industrial sectors. Furthermore, the International Congress is a rare opportunity for U.S. students to interact with fellow students and premier researchers from all across the world at the most prestigious conference the catalysis community has to offer. This will significantly assist with maintaining U.S. research competitiveness, while also inspiring students to tackle grand challenges related to catalytic processes. Catalysis is an enabling technology for a broad range of scientific and engineering impact areas related to environmental pollution control, sustainability, energy, and chemicals, to name just a few. Student training and engagement in these areas ensures a future crop of catalytic researchers well-positioned to make continued advances to science and engineering that will serve the needs of the Nation and society in general for years to come.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.