Community Facility Support: Travel support for student participation at the 2020 Electron Backscatter Diffraction Topical Conference; Ann Arbor, MI - June 2020

该奖项将支持早期职业科学家参加有关电子背散射衍射的专题会议。会议将对学生和早期职业调查人员的培训做出重大贡献，并为从基础(学术)到应用(行业)的多学科讨论和思想和概念交流提供场所。这次专题会议的开幕教程不仅将提供对学生和早期职业调查人员特别有用的基本培训，而且还将接触到来自不同领域的许多专家用户。这一专题会议系列已成为北美事实上的培训、开发和应用这一核心微量分析技术的会议。这次会议将为利用该技术的主要学科之间分享想法提供一个场所：地球科学、材料科学、数据科学和工程学。来自这些社区以及这些社区之间的前沿知识的交流将促进知识的传播和进一步的研究发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support early career scientists to attend a topical conference on electron backscatter diffraction. The conference will contribute significantly to training of students and early career investigators and provide a venue for multidisciplinary discussions and exchange of ideas and concepts, from the fundamental (academic) to the applied aspects (industry). The tutorial that opens this topical conference will provide not only basic training that will be particularly useful to students and early career investigators, but also access to a number of expert users from a variety of fields.This topical conference series has become the de facto meeting in North America for training, development and application of this core microanalytical technique. This conference will provide a venue for ideas to be shared between the primary disciplines utilizing the technique: geoscience, materials science, data science, and engineering. The exchange of cutting-edge knowledge from and between these communities will facilitate dissemination of knowledge and further research developments.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.