Conference: Support for U.S. Participants at the 18th International Congress on Catalysis

该项目将为研究生参加将于2024年7月14日至19日在法国里昂举行的第18届国际催化大会（ICC）提供支持。具体而言，这笔资金将部分支付约20名美国学术博士和博士后学生参加大会的注册和差旅费，并促进他们与国际催化界的互动。 催化的关键重要性反映在美国所有制成品的25-30%在其工艺化学中涉及催化。 学生们将在会议上展示他们的研究成果，参加该领域领导人的讲座，并与来自世界各地的同学互动。 ICC会议记录将在网络上公开发布，并将构成催化档案文献的重要组成部分。ICC会议是致力于催化的最大的全球会议，每四年举行一次。大会上一次在美国举行是在1996年。第18届ICC的目标是为未来的催化研究提供一个愿景，以过去为指导，但专注于未来的挑战。 该计划将突出最近的发展，挑战和机遇，从化石燃料为基础的能源和原料的关键转变的背景下，可持续能源和可再生原料需要解决碳排放和相关的气候影响。 为此，与分析工具、催化剂合成、实验技术、跨越分子到过程尺度的计算方法以及数据科学的进步相关的领域正在发生爆炸性的发展。 科学计划将包括全体会议和主题演讲，邀请和贡献的论文，以及涵盖所有这些方面的海报演示。 此外，国际大会是一个难得的机会，美国学生与来自世界各地的同学和顶级研究人员在催化界所提供的最负盛名的会议上进行互动。这将大大有助于保持美国的研究竞争力，同时也激励学生应对与催化过程相关的重大挑战。催化是一种使能技术，适用于与环境污染控制、可持续性、能源和净零碳化学品制造相关的广泛科学和工程影响领域。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队伍处于有利地位，使科学和工程的持续进步，将服务于国家和全球社会的需求，在未来几年。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The project will provide support for graduate student participation in the 18th International Congress on Catalysis (ICC) to be held in Lyon, France, July 14-19, 2024. Specifically, the funding will partially cover registration and travel expenses of approximately 20 U.S. academic Ph.D and postdoctoral students to attend the Congress and facilitate their interactions with the international catalysis community. The critical importance of catalysis is reflected by the fact that 25-30% of all manufactured goods in the United States involve catalysis in their process chemistry. The students will present their research at the conference, attend lectures by leaders in the field, and interact with fellow students from around the world. Proceedings of the ICC will be published openly on the web and will constitute a significant part of the archival literature on catalysis.The ICC meeting is the largest global meeting dedicated to catalysis, and is held once every four years. The Congress was last held in the United States in 1996. The goal of the 18th ICC is to provide a vision for future catalysis research as guided by the past but focused on challenges that lie ahead. The program will highlight recent developments, challenges, and opportunities in the context of critical shifts from fossil-fuel based energy and feedstocks to sustainable energy and renewable feedstocks as needed to address carbon emissions and related climate impacts. To that end, explosive developments are occurring in the field related to analytical tools, catalyst synthesis, experimental techniques, computational methods spanning molecular to process scales, and advances in data science. The scientific program will include plenary and keynote lectures, invited and contributed papers, and poster presentations covering all of those aspects. Furthermore, the International Congress is a rare opportunity for U.S. students to interact with fellow students and premier researchers from 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 net-zero-carbon chemical manufacturing. Student training and engagement in these areas ensures a future cohort of catalytic researchers well-positioned to make continued advances to science and engineering that will serve the needs of the Nation and the global community 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.