Tenth U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena

第十届美日纳米尺度交通现象联合研讨会将于2020年7月19日至22日在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥举行。研讨会为跨学科讨论提供了一个国际论坛，以确定和传播纳米尺度热和质量传输现象领域的未决科学和技术问题。主题包括设备中的热和质量传输，用于探测小空间或时间尺度上的热和质量传输的先进仪器，热传输特性的第一性原理计算，纳米尺度的辐射热传输，以及相变热传输。关于有前景的研究方向的会议记录和观点将通过档案期刊《纳米尺度和微尺度热物理工程》上的文章向更广泛的热科学界传播。参与者将由来自学术界、国家实验室和工业界的不同科学家和工程师组成。预计此次研讨会将促成美日之间的联合研究论文、学生、博士后研究员和教师的交流以及研究设施的共享。近年来，在纳米尺度上理解和控制物理现象在美国、日本和全球都受到了极大的关注。在过去的二十年里，先前的工作已经显示出在纳米尺度上设计材料属性的巨大机会。这次联合研讨会包括介绍和讨论与纳米尺度传输现象有关的广泛基本主题，以及将受益于热科学进步的广泛技术。受影响的技术包括能量转换和存储、纳米电子器件、先进制造、生物医学工程等。研讨会期间的讨论和随后出版的出版物预计将确定重要的和新兴的研究领域，教育社会了解不同技术领域的机遇和挑战，并促进学术界和工业界的互动。将编写几篇有重点的文章，向广大研究界传播专家对新机会和未来研究需要的评估。此外，这一系列研讨会的演讲将被记录下来并公开提供。这一奖项反映了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。

The Tenth U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena will be held in San Diego, CA on July 19-22, 2020. The seminar provides an international forum for interdisciplinary discussions to identify and disseminate outstanding science and technology issues in the area of nanoscale heat and mass transport phenomena. Topics include heat and mass transport in devices, advanced instrumentation for probing heat and mass transport at small spatial or temporal scales, first principles calculations of thermal transport properties, radiative heat transport at the nanoscale, and phase-change heat transfer. The proceedings and perspectives on promising research directions will be disseminated to the greater thermal sciences community through articles in the archival journal Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. Participants will consist of a diverse group of scientists and engineers from academia, national laboratories, and industry. It is anticipated that this seminar will enable joint research papers, exchange of students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty, as well as sharing of research facilities between the U.S. and Japan. Understanding and controlling physical phenomena at nanoscale have received tremendous attention in recent years in both US and Japan and around the globe. Prior work in the past two decades has shown tremendous opportunities to engineer materials properties at nanoscale. This joint seminar includes the presentations and discussions on a wide range of fundamental subjects related to nanoscale transport phenomena as well as a broad array of technologies that will benefit from the advancements in thermal sciences. The impacted technologies include energy conversion and storage, nanoelectronic devices, advanced manufacturing, biomedical engineering, and among others. The discussions during the seminar and the publications afterwards are expected to identify important and emerging research areas, educate the community on opportunities and challenges in various technological areas, and foster the interactions between academia and industry. Several focused articles will be prepared to disseminate the experts’ assessment of new opportunities and future research needs to the broad research community. In addition, the talks in this seminar series will be recorded and made publicly available.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.