NSF Student Travel Grant for 2020 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2020). To be held August 4-6, 2020.

该项目帮助支持约40名美国学生参加原定于2020年6月21日至23日在洛杉矶举行的IEEE射频集成电路研讨会（RFIC 2020），由于COVID-19大流行，现在是一个虚拟研讨会。该研讨会是2020年微波周的一部分，这是世界上最大的射频微波技术会议，将于2020年8月4日至6日举行。在过去的三年里，RFIC研讨会一直是一个为期三天的活动，有900多名注册与会者，其中包括约300名学生。该项目将支持被选中的学生支付RFIC研讨会的注册费。RFIC研讨会的组织者试图通过针对女性、本科生和代表性不足的群体来增加学生参与者的数量。其目的是支持那些可能因经济困难而无法参加RFIC 2020的年轻研究人员，并鼓励该领域的多样性。RFIC研讨会是世界上学习RFIC设计、技术和研究的重要活动之一。学生们能够获得对他们工作的反馈（通过论文展示、演示和竞赛），与来自政府、行业和学术界的高级研究人员交谈，并接触到最新的研究成果。RFIC 2020有许多特别有利于学生研究人员的活动，包括技术讲座、互动演示会议、研讨会、教程、技术讲座、展览、三分钟论文（3MT®）竞赛计划和其他有针对性的学生活动。总而言之，参加RFIC 2020将使这些美国学生接触到美国国家利益的关键研究领域（例如5G无线），增强学生的研究经验，并为新的合作提供更多的机会，以推进知识。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。

This project helps support the participation of around 40 US-based students to attend the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2020) originally scheduled for June 21-23, 2020 in Los Angeles and now a virtual symposium due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Symposium is part of Microwave Week 2020, the world’s largest RF & microwave technical convention and will now be held from August 4-6, 2020. Over the last three years, the RFIC Symposium has been a three-day long event with over 900 registered attendees, including about 300 students. The project will support the selected students that are chosen for their registration fees to the RFIC Symposium. The RFIC Symposium organizers seek to increase the number of student participants by targeting women, undergraduates, and under-represented groups for participation. The aim is to support young researchers who might not otherwise be able to attend RFIC 2020 due to financial difficulty as well as to encourage the diversity of the field.The RFIC Symposium is one of the world’s premier events to learn about RFIC design, technology and research. Students are able to obtain feedback on their work (through paper presentations and demos and competition), talk with senior researchers from government, industry, and academia, and get exposed to the latest research. RFIC 2020 has a number of events specifically beneficial to student researchers, which are technical talks, interactive demo session, workshops, tutorials, technical lecture, exhibition, the three-minute thesis (3MT®) competition program, and other targeted student activities. To summarize, participation at RFIC 2020 will expose these US-based students to this critical research field of US national interests (e.g., 5G wireless), enhance the research experiences for students, and provide increased opportunities for new collaborations to advance knowledge.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.