Aspen Winter Conference: Topological Meta-materials and Beyond; Aspen, Colorado; January 2-9, 2017

阿斯彭冬季会议：拓扑超材料及其他；

• 批准号: 1645935
• 负责人: William Irvine
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1645935&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Aspen; Winter; Conference; Topological; Meta

This award will partially support the Aspen Winter Conference: Topological Meta-materials and Beyond, to be held at the Aspen Center for in Aspen, Colorado, January 2-9, 2017. The conference will focus on new emerging trends in material engineering. Funds will be particularly devoted to increasing the diversity of the group of invited speakers, both by promoting the participation of under-represented minorities and by bringing together people from communities that do not normally interact closely. Aspen conferences traditionally draw participation mostly from the physics community. The conference organizers strongly believe that members of the engineering community are integral to the topics covered by the workshop and their technological pursuit. Funds will be therefore preferentially devoted to incentivize and facilitate the participation of selected members of the engineering community to enrich the scope and potential impact of the workshop. The organizers will also work to attract a large number of junior participants. Several will be selected to present posters. The conference will host an Aspen Winter Public Lecture on some aspect of topology in physics and engineering, which is the main topic of the conference.The workshop activities will focus on new trends in engineering materials with robust and desirable properties as the cornerstone of modern material science. A new paradigm is emerging in this effort, based on the application to materials of ideas from topology - the mathematics of knots, links and donuts. Extensively explored in the context of electronic systems, this new paradigm is extending its reach to meta-materials. Whether the main function of the meta-material be to guide the flow of electrons, photons, sound waves and/or mechanical energy this new paradigm is providing new opportunities as evidence by the recent explosion of activity in this area, which spans several communities from engineering to physics. This conference is to bring together some of the most active world renowned senior and junior scientists in this emerging field to deliver exciting, cutting-edge and thought-provoking lectures and to actively promote and engage in extensive scientific discussions and interaction with researchers, students, and postdoctoral fellow participants.

该奖项将部分支持ASPEN冬季会议：拓扑元材料及以后，将于2017年1月2日至9日在科罗拉多州阿斯彭阿斯彭市阿斯彭中心举行。该会议将重点介绍材料工程的新新兴趋势。资金将特别致力于通过促进代表性不足的少数群体的参与以及将通常不会紧密互动的社区的人们聚集在一起，以增加受邀演讲者群体的多样性。阿斯彭会议传统上主要来自物理界的参与。会议组织者坚信，工程社区的成员是研讨会及其技术追求的主题的组成部分。因此，将优先利用资金激励和促进工程社区选定成员的参与，以丰富研讨会的范围和潜在影响。组织者还将努力吸引大量的初级参与者。将选择几个来介绍海报。该会议将主持关于物理和工程拓扑的某些方面的阿斯彭冬季公开演讲，这是会议的主要主题。研讨会活动将集中在具有强大而理想的特性的工程材料的新趋势上，这是现代材料科学的基础。根据拓扑材料的应用 - 结，链接和甜甜圈的数学，这项工作正在出现新的范式。在电子系统的背景下进行了广泛的探索，这种新的范式将其覆盖范围扩展到元物质。元物质的主要功能是否是指导电子，光子，声波和/或机械能的流动，这种新范式通过最近在该地区活动的活动爆炸而提供了新的机会作为证据，该地区跨越了从工程到物理学到物理学的几个社区。这次会议是将这个新兴领域的一些最活跃的世界高级和初级科学家汇集在一起​​，以提供令人兴奋的，尖端和发人深省的讲座，并积极促进和参与与研究人员，学生和博士后同学的广泛科学讨论以及与研究人员进行广泛的科学讨论。