2018 Gordon Research Conference on Granular Matter: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Particulate Systems

2018年戈登颗粒物质研究会议：颗粒系统的跨学科性质

• 批准号: 1829120
• 负责人: Xiang Cheng
• 金额: $ 1.66万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-15 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829120&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2018; Gordon; Research; Conference; Granular

This grant provides funds in support of scientists and engineers, particularly junior scientists and engineers from under-represented groups, to attend the Ninth Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Granular Matter being held on July 22-27, 2018 at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. The funds will also support the associated Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Granular Matter held two days before the GRC meeting at the same location.Granular materials, or particulate materials, are the 2nd most abundant condensed format of materials on Earth after water and are everywhere in daily life and industrial contexts. But compared with the study of water flows, where the Navier-Stokes equations have been established and extensively studied more than 150 years, the understanding of granular materials is still primitive. A quantitative description of granular flows in different states is lacking. The predictive power highly needed in industry remains limited. Fundamentally, the development of a theoretical understanding of far-from-equilibrium granular materials in disordered states with nonlinear dissipative interactions will certainly push the frontier of statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, fluid mechanics and dynamical systems theory. Due to the relevance of granular matter to a wide range of natural and industrial systems, the study of granular materials spreads across multiple scientific and engineering fields, each of which has its own objectives and techniques. To coordinate these diverse research efforts, it is important to maintain a regular platform for scientists and engineers to discuss and exchange ideas across disciplines. The structure of GRC accomplishes this by promoting presentations of new, unpublished work followed by free, unhampered discussion among participants from disciplines that normally do not intersect. The conference requests formal discussion periods after every talk (guided by a discussion leader), free time in the afternoons for small groups, follow-on discussions, poster sessions, and shared meals with on-site housing. This combination maximizes the interactions between participants of different fields during the meeting. The conference also provides a friendly environment in which new collaborations can be forged to identify fruitful new lines of research and to help tackle longstanding problems. Over the last two decades, this biannual conference has become the most important international conference on granular materials. NSF has been the main supporter for the previous eight meetings. A continuous support from NSF is critical to the success of the upcoming GRC on granular materials.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.

该赠款提供了支持科学家和工程师的资金，特别是来自代表性群体的初级科学家和工程师，以参加2018年7月22日至27日在马萨诸塞州伊斯顿的Stonehill College举行的第九届戈登研究会议（GRC）。这些资金还将在GRC会议上在同一地点举行的GRC会议前两天对相关的Gordon Research研讨会（GRS）支持。晶体材料或颗粒物材料是地球上水上最丰富的浓缩材料的第二大最丰富的材料格式，并且在日常生活和工业环境中无处不在。但是，与对水流的研究相比，已经建立和广泛研究了Navier-Stokes方程超过150年，对颗粒材料的理解仍然是原始的。缺乏对不同状态颗粒流的定量描述。在行业中，高度需要的预测能力仍然有限。从根本上讲，具有非线性耗散相互作用的无序状态中远程平衡颗粒材料的理论理解肯定会推动统计力学，凝结物质理论，流体力学和动力学系统理论的前沿。由于颗粒物与各种自然和工业系统的相关性，颗粒材料的研究扩散在多个科学和工程领域，每个领域都有其自身的目标和技术。为了协调这些多样化的研究工作，重要的是要维护科学家和工程师的常规平台，以讨论和交流跨学科的想法。 GRC的结构通过促进新的，未发表的作品的演讲，然后在通常不会相交的学科的参与者之间进行免费的，不受欢迎的讨论来实现这一目标。会议要求每次演讲（在讨论领袖指导下），小组的空闲时间，随后的讨论，海报会议以及与现场住房共享餐点的正式讨论期。这种组合最大化会议期间不同领域的参与者之间的相互作用。该会议还提供了一个友好的环境，可以在其中进行新的合作，以确定富有成果的新研究线并帮助解决长期存在的问题。在过去的二十年中，这次每年一次的会议已成为最重要的颗粒材料国际会议。 NSF一直是前八次会议的主要支持者。 NSF的持续支持对于即将到来的GRC在颗粒材料方面的成功至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。