This proposal requests funding to partially support the 2012 International Conference on Three Dimensional (3D) Materials Science to be held July 8-12, 2012 in Seven Springs, PA. This specialty conference is organized by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), in collaboration with the lead conference organizer Alexis Lewis (US Naval Research Laboratory), the principal investigator (and co-organizer) George Spanos (TMS), co-organizer Marc De Graef (Carnegie Mellon University), co-organizer Henning Poulsen (Risoe National Laboratory and DTU), and co-organizer Jeff Simmons (US Air Force Research Laboratory). Additionally, an International Advisory Committee (IAC) has been assembled which includes notable scientists from eleven different countries who are working to promote the conference in their respective countries. The organizers of this conference seek to provide the premier forum for presentations of current interest and significance to the growing 3D materials science community.
The format of the conference is highly conducive to interactions among students, faculty, and professional researchers, and ample time is provided in the schedule for rich discussions amongst the attendees. An important component of the conference will be the student poster session. Additionally, the conference program has been designed to maximize interaction among modelers, computational and image processing scientists, and experimentalists.
Non-Technical Description
This proposal requests funding to partially support the 2012 International Conference on Three Dimensional (3D) Materials Science to be held July 8-12, 2012 in Seven Springs, PA. The format of the conference is highly conducive to interactions among students, faculty, and professional researchers, and ample time is provided in the schedule for rich discussions amongst the attendees. An important component of the conference will be the student poster session. Additionally, the conference program has been designed to maximize interaction among modelers, computational and image processing scientists, and experimentalists.
The development of new technologies and products that contribute to the flourishing of human society is strongly linked to advancements in understanding of how the structure of materials contributes to their properties. Traditionally,this understanding has been obtained from a variety of experimental approaches including advanced microscopic techniques. Invariably in the early years of the field of materials science, these microscopic techniques have been confined to a two-dimensional or flat, surface view, which falls short of explaining the 3-dimensional structure of materials. The 1st InternationalConference on 3D Materials Science was a clear milestone in the development of techniques that consider materials in light of their true 3-dimensional structures. At this conference, almost 200 experts, young scientists, and students gathered to share and discuss their latest scientific break throughs and achievements in this area. As these techniques continue to grow in their accuracy and uptake in the field, it is expected that significant advancements in the development of technologies and products that benefit human society will result. Much of the technical content presented at the conference was captured by the speakers in technical papers that have been published in the collected proceedings of the conference. It is expected that this resource (citation information provided below) will continue to serve as an ongoing resource for both experts and students in the 3D MS field. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on 3D Materials Science, 2012. In International Conference on 3D Materials Science 2012; Graef, M. D., Poulsen, H. F., Lewis, A., Simmons, J., Spanos, G., Eds.; Wiley: Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, 2012.
