From: "J. Storrs Hall, PhD." Subject: Nanotechnology Workshop Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Date: 28 Jan 1998 21:04:02 GMT Organization: Dynarion Laboratories Path: news.kth.se!nntp.uio.no!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!korova.insync.net!pingflood.geo.net!nanospace.com!nanotech Lines: 44 Approved: josh@discuss.foresight.org Message-ID: <6ao6g2$e9b$1@news.nanospace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.142.17.9 X-Server-Date: 28 Jan 1998 21:04:02 GMT TechSubList: n Originator: josh@discuss Xref: news.kth.se sci.nanotech:7475 This is a copy of a copy, reproduced in the interests of getting it out as quickly as possible: The results of a worldwide evaluation study on nanotechnology will be presented on Tuesday, February 10, 9 am - 5 pm, 1998, at the Rosslyn Westpark Hotel (Holiday Inn), 1900 N. Fort Meyer Drive, Arlington, VA (703-807-2000, station Rosslyn on the Blue and Orange subway lines). We expect experts from universities, industry and over twelve federal agencies. The study is cosponsored by NSF, NIH, ONR, NASA, NIST, DOE, AFOSR, and DOC. Two reference volumes will be available at the workshop. There is no registration fee. The basic information (including registration form) is on the following Web site: http://itri.loyola.edu/nano/workshop.htm . The workshop content, in brief, is: "Global Assessment of Research and Development in Nanoparticles, Nanostructured Materials and Nanodevices" 8:15 Registration (Coffee & pastries provided) 9:00 Introduction to WTEC, Background of Study (WTEC, NSF) Welcoming Remarks, Joseph Bordogna, Acting Deputy Director, NSF 9:15 Executive Summary (Siegel, RPI) 10:00 Synthesis & Assembly (Hu, UCSB; Shaw, SUNY) 10:45 Dispersions & Coatings (Mendel, Kodak)) 11:30 High-Surface-Area Materials (Cox, Exxon) 12:15 Lunch (by reservation only) 1:15 Functional Nanostructures & Devices (Goronkin, Motorola) 2:00 Consolidated Materials (Koch, NCSU) 2:45 Biological Approaches & Applications (Jelinski, Cornell U.) 3:30 Conclusions (Siegel, Hu) 4:00 Opinions from Federal Funding Agencies (Roco, Moderator) We expect an interesting workshop. You are invited to attend. I encourage you to forward this announcement to your colleagues interested in nanotechnology. Thank you. Mike Roco NSF, Coordinator of the Nanotechnology Group, mroco@nsf.gov, 703-306-1371, Fax 703-306-0319