So What is This About?
NanoScience for Advanced Applications:
on Crossroads of Disciplines
U.S.-Mexico Workshop
GUANAJUATO, MEXICO, 16-19 FEBRUARY, 2005
Participation
Originally conceived to
foster strong and sustainable collaboration between The
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and University
of Guanajato(UG) , the idea of this Workshop has evolved to
provide a forum for a broader, Texas-Mexico, regional interaction of scientists
and engineers involved in "nano" research and technology.
In recent years, Texas and Mexico have emerged as two global centers of
research in nanotechnology. Texas has formed a Strategic
Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology (SPRING) consortium
of six Universities and Air Force Material Research Laboratory. Coincidentally,
in the second half of 2004 only, Mexican institutions have hosted two
international "nano" conferences in
San Luis Potosí and
León.
Although nanotechnology is multidisciplinary, it is still uncommon to see
researchers from disparate disciplines in a single conference. This Workshop
will bring together people with backgrounds in mathematics, physics, chemistry,
biology as well as business leaders interested in nanotechnology applications.
As should be clear from the presentation titles of the preliminary program, subjects will also be multitude: from nanotubes
and nanoparticles to photonic crystals to DNA... It is the synergy of topical efforts and the synergy of people working on
these subjects on both sides of the US-Mexican border that will be the main pursuit of this Workshop. The Workshop will also
feature many US and international speakers who participate in and support our collaborative effort.
The Workshop, organized by UTD and UG and supported by other institutions, will take place in the beautiful
city of Guanajuato,
Mexico. The opening ceremony will take place in the main building of UG in the afternoon of February 16, 2005, followed by the keynote
presentation "New Materials of 21st Century: Electronic Polymers and Nanoscience" delivered by a 2000 Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Alan
MacDiarmid of UTD and University of Pennsylvania. Invited oral presentations will comprise several working sessions to be held
on February 17-19 and dedicated to carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles, energy harvesting and storage, advanced applications, photonics,
bionanoscience and theoretical problems of nanoscience. A special round table discussion will also be held to illuminate prospects of
commercialization of "nano" research outputs.
It is the intent of Workshop organizers and sponsoring parties to make this collaborative event regularly recurring alternately
in Mexico and Texas.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS: The Workshop organizers are
welcoming contributions from Mexican students and young researchers that
would form a poster session. The best poster presentation will be chosen
and awarded. As the total number of Workshop participants is limited,
the Organizing Committee will prescreen and select poster contributions
to be presented. To be considered, abstracts of poster presentations along
with authors' contact information should be emailed to the attention of
Professor Jose
Luis Lucio at
Local Organizing Committee:
J. Cervantes (FQ-UGTO)
J. J. Guzman (CIQI-UGTO)
O. Ibarra Manzano (FIMEE-UGTO)
J. L. Lucio Martinez (IF-UGTO), chairman
O. A. Sanchez Valenzuela (cimat and FAMAT-UGTO)
UTD Organizing Committee:
A. Cunningham
Y. Gartstein
R. Hernandez
A. Zakhidov, chairman
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