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A total of two postdoctoral fellowships and eight graduate student fellowships will be provided, at a given time, to recruit and support the most outstanding researchers and graduate students at any of the participating universities in the US whose research focuses on one of ANSWER?s core research thrust areas described in Section 6. Furthermore, a total of six undergraduate fellowships at the participating universities in the US will be established for the most capable students. The selected ANSWER Fellows will benefit from [1] an annual stipend, and [2] the opportunities to conduct research in collaboration with world-class scientists at a number of national and international institutes. The responsibilities of the selected Fellows include not only research work but also some of the Service Program activities listed in Figure 1. The vision of the ANSWER is to become an international Service Insitute that facilitates exchange of neutron science rather than a Research Insitute. Therefore, the mission of ANSWER Fellows is to act as catalysts for the proposed international cooperative activities by participating and helping with exchange programs, workshops, neutron schools, and development of internet-resources. An ANSWER Fellowship Committee, with Program Managers and Program-Assessment Committee members, will evaluate the performance of Fellows at the annual workshop. Brief selection procedures and criteria are presented in Section 11 and further details will be determined at the first ANSWER Workshop.
International Exchange Program –
Promoting International Activities through ANSWER Fellowships
The objectives of the exchange program are to: [1] facilitate international cooperations in graduate research projects, [2] foster access to international neutron facilities, [3] attend international conferences and summer schools, [4] bring in well-trained postdoctoral scholars, and [5] advance neutron-scattering instrument development technologies, and [6] facilitate short-term study groups. The Exchange Programs help ANSWER become a gateway for international materials scientists coming to the US neutron sources.
External Participants
ANSWER will coordinate and support a total of eight short-term International Exchange Programs per year for selected outstanding graduate students, postdoctors, faculty, and senior researchers for neutron-diffraction experiments, data analyses, theoretical modeling, and the preparation of a publication during the visit. The preferences will be given to Ph.D. dissertation research projects that are financially independent from ANSWER and require close international collaborations among all three parties of the university, neutron facility, and industry. The first official announcement was made in June 2003. Currently, we have awarded four fellowships. The recipients are:
Recipient #1: Prof. Ersan Ustundag and Mr. Robert Rogan
[US Citizen]
Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, CA
Project Title: Constitutive Behavior of Ferroelectrics
Collaboration: ISIS [UK]
Recipient #2: Prof. Philip Nash and Mr. Smati Chupatanakul [US Citizen]
Materials Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, IL
Project Title: Residual Stress Characterization Using Neutron Diffraction on Parts Austempered by High Pressure Vacuum Furnace
Collaboration: ISIS[UK]
Recipient #3: Prof. Sean Agnew [US Citizen]
Materials Science, University of Virginia, VA
Project Title: In-Situ Internal Stress Measurements on Magnesium
Using Neutron Diffraction
Collaboration: Dr. H.-G. Brokmeier, University of Clausthal & GKSS, Geesthacht, Germany
Recipient #4 Prof. Takeshi Egami and Prof. Wojtek Dmoski
Materials Science, University of Pennsylvania (Now at the University of Tennessee)
Project Title: Pair Distribution Function Analysis of Amorphous
Structures
Recipient #5 Prof. Dayakar Penumadu
Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
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