Wednesday, October 3, 2001Volume 1, Issue 2
NSF Awards $65 Million for Nano Centers
Center for Electronic Transport in Molecular Nanostructures
- Columbia University ($10.8 M/5 yrs)
Center for Nanoscale Systems in Information Technologies
- Cornell University ($11.6 M/5 yrs)
Center for the Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications
- Harvard University ($10.8 M/5 yrs)
Center for Integrated Nanopatterning and Detection Technologies
- Northwestern University ($11.1 M/5 yrs)
Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ($10.0 M/5 yrs)
Center for Nanoscience in Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Rice University ($10.5 M/5 yrs)
Frontiers in Materials Seminars
Thursday, November 01, 2001Time: 11:15 AMThursday, November 08, 2001
Location: 22 Deike
Title: Block Copolymer Thin Films: Patterns, Patterning, and Nanofabrication
Speaker: Richard Register, Princeton University
Time: 11:15 AMThursday, December 06, 2001
Location: 22 Deike
Title: High throughput experimentation in the life sciences and materials research
Speaker: Karsten Danielmeier and Hermann Bach, Bayer
Time: 11:15 AM
Location: 22 Deike
Title: High Temperature Microscopy: Seeing is Believing!
Speaker: Alan Cramb, Carnegie Mellon University
Inaugural MRSEC Symposium
The first Annual Symposium of the Center for Collective Phenomena in Restricted Geometries (CPRG) - an NSF MRSEC - will be held on Saturday, October 13, 2001 in 117 Osmond Laboratory beginning at 8:40 AM. Three distinguished speakers: Millie Dresselhaus of MIT, Sunil Sinha of UCSD, and Ray Baughman of Texas, plus talks by PSU faculty thrust leaders. A poster session from 3:00 to 6:00 PM. Breakfast at 8 AM, lunch, and refreshments at the poster session, will be provided. ALL ARE INVITED!
Materials Seminars
Wednesday, October 03, 2001Time: 3:35 PMThursday, October 04, 2001
Location: 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences
Title: Nanotechnology and MEMS and Their Applications to Engineering and Medicine
Speaker: Vijay Varadan, Penn State
Time: 11:15 AMThursday, October 11, 2001
Location: 22 Deike
Title: A Combinatorial Approach for Efficient Mapping of Phase Diagrams and Properties
Speaker: Ji-Cheng Zhao, GE CRD
Time: 11:15 AMThursday, October 11, 2001
Location: 22 Deike
Title: Colloidal Assembly of Mesoscale Periodic Structures for Functional Ceramic Applications
Speaker: Jennifer Lewis, UIUC
Time: 12:15 PMTuesday, October 16, 2001
Location: S5 Osmond
Title: Using Nature's Tools to Design Novel Hybrid Nanostructured Materials
Speaker: Angela Belcher, University of Texas at Austin
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: 140 Fenske
Title: Critical Issues in Interfacial Phenomena for Chemical and Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems
Speaker: Christine Grant, North Carolina State University
