The Ninth U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena was held in Tokyo, Japan from July 2 2017 to July 5 2017 at the KKR Hotel Tokyo. This seminar, held once every three years and alternating between U.S. and Japanese venues, is regarded as one of the premier meetings in thermal sciences [1]. It provides an international forum for interdisciplinary discussions that identify and disseminate outstanding science and technology issues in the area of nanoscale thermophysics and energy conversion. The 2017 meeting was sponsored by the Inoue Foundation for Science, the Thermal Science and Engineering Program of the Office of Naval Research (Program Officer: Dr. Mark Spector), and the Thermal Transport Processes program of the National Science Foundation (Program Director: Dr. Jose’ Lage). The 2017 meeting was attended by 85 researchers. Amongst these attendees, 54% were from Japanese institutions and 46% were from American institutions. Of the attendees, 64% were university faculty, 28% were PhD students or postdocs, and the remaining 8% were industry researchers, national laboratory researchers, or program managers. The gender breakdown was 90% male and 10% female. The meeting consisted of 58 oral presentations segregated into 8 technical sessions over three days, and one poster session with 25 posters. The meeting commenced Monday with plenary presentations by Gang Chen (MIT) and Eiji Saitoh (Tohoku University). On Monday evening, a memorial session was held in honor of Millie Dresselhaus, whose career had a significant impact on the thermal sciences community. Jose Heremans fondly remembered his time in her lab, Shigeo Maruyama and Arun Majumdar discussed her contributions to carbon nanomaterials, and Gang Chen recalled her recent years as a colleague and collaborator. The speakers paid tribute to Millie’s commitment to science, devotion to diversity, liberal use of the red pen, and above all, her incredible work ethic. The banquet and poster session followed. Keynotes were given on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings by Arun Majumdar (Stanford University), Hiroshi Yamaguchi (NTT Basic Research Laboratories), Li Shi (University of Texas at Austin), and Junichiro Shiomi (University of Tokyo). To provide a critical summary of the technical topics that were heavily discussed at the 2017 meeting, several invited articles were solicited from attendees that appear in this issue. Multiple presentations on the reinvigorated topic of thermal transport in disordered materials led Asegun Henry and colleagues to write the review article titled “Thermal transport in disordered materials.” Technology-driven research led to the article “Thermoelectric transport in graphene and 2D layered materials” by M. Markov & M. Zebarjadi and the article “Heat generation and thermal transport in lithium-ion batteries: A scale bridging perspective” by R. Kantharaj & A. Marconnet. Finally, one of the first papers on machine learning in thermal sciences, “Materials informatics for heat transfer: Recent Progresses and Perspectives” was written by S. Ju and J. Shiomi. These articles are part of this special issue, and a fifth solicited article that provides a tutorial comparing magnon and phonon transport will be published within the year. We close by encouraging you, the reader, to browse these authoritative papers that resulted from an inspirational meeting. NANOSCALE AND MICROSCALE THERMOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING 2019, VOL. 23, NO. 2, 79–80 https://doi.org/10.1080/15567265.2019.1588929

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第九届美日纳米传输现象联合研讨会报告

第九届美日纳米传输现象联合研讨会于2017年7月2日至2017年7月5日在日本东京KKR酒店举行。该研讨会每三年举行一次，在美国和日本的场地之间轮流举行，被认为是热科学领域的主要会议之一 [1]。它为跨学科讨论提供了一个国际论坛，确定和传播纳米级热物理学和能量转换领域的突出科学和技术问题。2017年会议由井上科学基金会、海军研究室热科学与工程项目（项目负责人：Mark Spector博士）和美国国家科学基金会热传输过程项目（项目负责人：Dr. Mark Spector）赞助。 . 何塞的拉格）。85 名研究人员参加了 2017 年的会议。在这些与会者中，54% 来自日本机构，46% 来自美国机构。在与会者中，64% 是大学教师，28% 是博士生或博士后，其余 8% 是行业研究人员、国家实验室研究人员或项目经理。性别细分为 90% 男性和 10% 女性。会议由 58 场口头报告组成，分为 8 场技术会议，为期三天，1 场海报会议，25 张海报。会议于周一开始，Gang Chen（麻省理工学院）和 Eiji Saitoh（东北大学）进行了全体演讲。周一晚上，为纪念米莉·德雷塞尔豪斯 (Millie Dresselhaus) 举行了一场纪念会议，她的职业生涯对热科学界产生了重大影响。Jose Heremans 深情地回忆起他在她实验室的时光，Shigeo Maruyama 和 Arun Majumdar 讨论了她对碳纳米材料的贡献，Gang Chen 回忆了她最近几年作为同事和合作者的经历。演讲者对米莉对科学的承诺、对多样性的奉献、对红笔的自由使用，以及最重要的是，她令人难以置信的职业道德表示敬意。随后是宴会和海报展示。周二和周三上午，Arun Majumdar（斯坦福大学）、Hiroshi Yamaguchi（NTT 基础研究实验室）、Li Shi（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）和 Junichiro Shiomi（东京大学）发表了主题演讲。为了对 2017 年会议上大量讨论的技术主题进行重要总结，本期的与会者征集了几篇受邀文章。关于无序材料中热传输这一重振主题的多次演讲促使 Asegun Henry 及其同事撰写了题为“无序材料中的热传输”的评论文章。技术驱动的研究导致了 M. Markov & M. Zebarjadi 的文章“石墨烯和 2D 层状材料中的热电传输”和 R. Kantharaj 的文章“锂离子电池中的热量产生和热传输：尺度桥接视角” & A. Marconnet。最后，S. Ju 和 J. Shiomi 撰写了热学领域机器学习的首批论文之一，“传热材料信息学：最新进展和前景”。这些文章是本期特刊的一部分，年内将出版第五篇征集文章，其中提供了一个比较磁子和声子传输的教程。最后，我们鼓励读者浏览这些来自一次鼓舞人心的会议的权威论文。纳米尺度和微观尺度热物理工程 2019，第一卷。23，没有。2, 79–80 https://doi.org/10.1080/15567265.2019.1588929