Support for Sagamore 15 conference on electron charge spin and momentum density

科学的进步不仅是因为研究人员发表他们的工作供他人审查，更重要的是，因为他们在会议和研讨会上讨论他们的结果并辩论其影响。有些会议是很棒的大型集会，涵盖多个主题，有许多平行的会议，人们分散在会议之外。其他会议规模较小，更连贯，并在城外举行，这样小组就不能逃避，有足够的时间进行非正式讨论和正式会议。萨加莫尔会议三年一度的电子密度分布系列就属于后一类。大约100名物理学家，化学家和晶体学家，谁研究电子在确定各种材料的性质的作用将在英国举行4-5天的会议，这是该系列会议40年历史上的第一次。地点是沃里克郡乡村的一家酒店。在那里，他们将讨论电子分布行为的知识（实验和理论）如何帮助我们理解超导体，磁体和纳米粒子等不同材料，另一方面，从最简单的分子到生物医学和药理学重要性的大分子（蛋白质，病毒，酶和药物）的化合物。同步加速器的力量-非常强大的X射线源-与其他传统的研究方法（如中子衍射）相结合，在过去十年中重振了该领域，例如允许在反应进行时进行研究。我们现在可以跟踪电子密度分布的变化，因为化学反应和磁性转变是时间（例如光晶体学），温度和压力的函数，而不是看固定状态，这证明是令人兴奋和揭示的，特别是当我们将其与相关光谱学的信息结合起来时。这项资助申请的目的是确保主要发言人确实会来，所有英国研究人员，包括年轻科学家和研究生将能够参加会议，并从他们与该领域领导人的互动中受益。要求EPSRC提供约占费用13%的捐款。

Science advances not only because researchers publish their work for scrutiny by others but, more importantly, because they meet to discuss their results and debate its implications at conferences and workshops. Some conferences are great jamborees covering several topics with many parallel sessions and people dispersing outside the sessions. Other conferences are smaller, more coherent and are held out of town so that the group cannot escape and has plenty of time for informal discussions as well as the formal sessions. The setting has to be attractive for this to work.The Sagamore conference triennial series on electron density distributions belongs to the latter category. About 100 physicists, chemists and crystallographers, who study the role of electrons in determining the properties of a wide range of materials will meet together for 4-5 days in the UK for the first time in the 40 year history of the conference series. The venue is a hotel in the Warwickshire countryside. There they will discuss how knowledge (experimental and theoretical) of the behaviour of the electron distribution can aid our understanding of materials as diverse as superconductors, magnets and nanoparticles on the one hand and, on the other, chemical compounds ranging from the simplest molecules up to large molecules of biomedical and pharmacological importance (proteins, viruses, enzymes and drugs). The power of synchrotrons - immensely powerful x-ray sources - combined with other traditional methods of study such as neutron diffraction, has revitalised the field in the past decade, for example allowing studies to be carried out as reactions proceed. We can now follow changes in the electron density distributions as chemical reactions and magnetic transitions proceed as a function of time (e.g. photo-crystallography), temperature and pressure, rather than looking at a fixed state and this is proving exciting and revealing, especially when we combine it with information from related spectroscopies. The purpose of this grant application is to ensure that the leading speakers will indeed come and that all UK researchers, including young scientists and research students will be able to take part in the meeting and benefit from their interaction with the leaders in the field. An EPSRC contribution amounting to approximately 13% of the costs is requested.