Travel Support for IUPAP Statphys-22 Conference; July 4-9, 2004; Banglore, India

Trustees Of Boston University, Boston

Investigators

Abstract

This is award will support travel for students, postdoctoral associates and young faculty in order to attend STATPHYS-22, the 22nd International Conference on Statistical Physics, to be held in Bangalore, India, 4-9 July, 2004. The award is supported by the Office of International Science and Engineering, the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, the Chemistry Division, the Physics Division and the Division of Materials Research. Statistical mechanics is a cross-disciplinary field with practitioners coming from chemistry, mathematics, biology, physics, computer science and the engineering sciences. Every three years, this community assembles to review results and to plan future work. These meetings are sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). This triennial series of meetings started in Florence in 1949 and continues to the present day. Starting with the 1986 meeting in Boston, the NSF has been awarding travel grants to enable young investigators without other support to participate. This award will enable 30-60 graduate students and young researchers to participate in STATPHYS-22 scheduled for 4-9 July, 2004, in Bangalore, India. The applicant pool will be assembled after vigorous advertisement. A selection committee representing a cross-section of senior scientists has committed to undertake a fair selection of a balanced group of "NSF Scholars," representing all disciplines of the statistical mechanics community and paying particular attention to qualified female and minority candidates. The award will contribute to the scientific infrastructure of U.S. science by permitting young people to participate in a major international meeting. It will strengthen the ties of these young people to their peers in India and other foreign countries. Past experience has indicated that those graduate students who have been awarded grants have found the experience to be extremely important in their career formation. %%%