Events: 2009

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  • 19 Feb 2009
    8:00 PM EST 
    to 19 Feb 2009
    9:00 PM EST 

    Research Challenges for the Semiconductor Industry

    Category: Seminar

    This year's Phillip F. Bagwell Lecture is given by Steven Hillenius, Vice President, Semiconductor Research Corportation. Abstract: The semiconductor industry has achieved extraordinary growth in productivity over the last 50 or more years through investment in basic research. The industry...

  • 20 Feb 2009
    6:30 PM EST 
    to 20 Feb 2009
    8:00 PM EST 

    Renewable Solar Energy: Has the Sun Finally Risen on Photovoltaics?

    Category: Seminar

    Dr. Mark Pinto, Senior Vice President, Applied Materials, Inc. Pinto serves as both General Manager of Applied's Energy and Environmental Solutions business and as the corporate Chief Technical Officer. Look for his talk on nanoHUB.org soon after.

  • 25 Feb 2009
    5:00 PM EST 
    to 25 Feb 2009
    6:00 PM EST 

    Simulation of Thermal Effects in Semiconductor Devices

    Category: Seminar

    Zlatan Aksamija talks about: Simulation of Thermal Effects in Semiconductor Devices Thermal generation in MOSFETs is seen as the ultimate limit to scaling. Thermal management solutions such as heat sinks are not sufficient to deal with heat generation in future integrated circuits based on...

  • 04 Mar 2009
    5:00 PM EST 
    to 04 Mar 2009
    6:00 PM EST 

    NCN@Illiinois Seminar: Silicon-Interface Scattering in Carbon Nanotube Transistors

    Category: Seminar

    Slava V. Rotkin (Leghigh U.) takes about: Silicon-Interface Scattering in Carbon Nanotube Transistors Recent experimental studies on carbon nanotube materials and also graphene revealed significant influence of the surface scattering mechanisms on their electronic properties. The physics of...

  • 08 Mar 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 08 Mar 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    nanotech

    Category: Conference

    dialogue about nanoscience

  • 19 Mar 2009
    1:30 PM EDT 
    to 19 Mar 2009
    8:30 PM EDT 

    NanoRegulation - Anticipating the Smallest Threats and the Largest Opportunities

    Category: Seminar

    The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is hosting the third Nanotechnology Symposium: "NanoRegulation - Anticipating the Smallest Threats and the Largest Opportunities" on March 19, 2009 in Sacramento, California. The symposium will also be available via webcast at...

  • 29 Mar 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 02 Apr 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Nanotech Insight: "Because Small Matter is no Small Matter"

    Category: Conference

    The nanorevolution is just around the corner. Research and discovery in nanoscience are exploding and numerous key enabling technologies will soon lead to far-reaching changes in our lives. In fact, nanotech is already weaving yesterday's dreams into today's reality with great advances in fields...

  • 26 Apr 2009
    1:30 PM EDT 
    to 26 Apr 2009
    10:30 PM EDT 

    2009 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum

    Category: Conference

    Welcome to UC Berkeley's leading nanotechnology event, the Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum! This all-day event on Sunday, April 26, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. is a great opportunity to learn more about nanotechnology today. Listen to views of top scientists, entrepreneurs and venture...

  • 15 May 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 18 May 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Nano Cement, Steel and Construction Industries Conference

    Category: Conference

    Recent developments in the study and manipulation of materials and processes at the nanoscale offer the exciting prospect of producing new macro materials, properties and products. The construction industry will inevitably be a beneficiary of these nanotech developments. This conference will...

  • 28 May 2009
    1:00 PM EDT 
    to 29 May 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Introducing the Rappture Toolkit (2-day tutorial)

    Category: Conference

    Brief introduction to the Rappture Toolkit for incoming students in the NCN SURF program. Learn the basics of scientific programming in MATLAB, Fortran, and other programming languages. Use the Rappture toolkit to accelerate the development of interfaces for scientific tools. Get your tools...

  • 01 Jun 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 12 Jun 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Illinois 2009 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School ( June 1st - June 12th )

    Category: Other

    Principles of Nano-Biophotonics Technology and Methods of Investigation Current Research: - Biomolecular Sensing - Nanoprobes - Nonlinear Microscopy - Nanoscopy - Nanoplasmonics - And More ... Register at: Illinois Summer School Registration

  • 08 Jun 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 19 Jun 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Illinois Global Enterprise for MicroMechanics and Molecular Medicine Summer School

    Category: Conference

    Global Enterprise for MicroMechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4, www.gem4.org, through the financial support of National Science Foundation NSF), organizes a series of Summer Schools on Cellular and Molecular Mechanics. The 2009 GEM4 Summer School will be held on June 8 - June 19,...

  • 11 Jun 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 11 Jun 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Lab-on-a-Chip Workshop

    Category: Conference

    This one-day workshop is designed to introduce researchers to the different technologies used in lab-on-chip systems. Speakers will include U-M faculty and staff members. The workshop is aimed at researchers from academia and industry who are interested in learning about lab-on-chip fabrication....

  • 02 Jul 2009
    12:30 PM EDT 
    to 03 Jul 2009
    7:30 PM EDT 

    Functional Optical Imaging

    Category: Conference

    Functional Optical Imaging Hosted by the Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and Optical Science (IBIOS) University of Nottingham, UK. 2nd - 3rd July 2009 Progress in biological sciences has been driven by development in optical imaging. In the early days visualising the structure of...

  • 20 Jul 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 24 Jul 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    2009 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up

    Category: Conference

    Electronics from the Bottom Up seeks to bring a new perspective to engineering education -- one that is designed to help realize the opportunities of nanotechnology. Ever since the birth of solid-state physics, materials have been described in terms of average material parameters like the...

  • 28 Jul 2009
    1:00 PM EDT 
    to 28 Jul 2009
    8:30 PM EDT 

    International Nanotechnology Symposium

    Category: Conference

    The symposium will gather experts from France, Mexico and throughout the United States to discuss pioneering approaches employing a high-resolution DMA (Differential Mobility Analyzer), a physical detection method that can be applied to many virus species, particles, and ions in the environment...

  • 10 Aug 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 14 Aug 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics, Photonics and Renewable Energy

    Category: Conference

    The NGC2009 & CSTC2009 forum in Canada invites academic and industrial researchers to present tutorial, expository and original research papers dedicated to solving scientific and technological problems in electronics, photonics and renewable energy such as atomic scale materials design, bio- and...

  • 14 Aug 2009
    1:00 PM EDT 
    to 16 Aug 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Nanotech India 2009

    Category: Conference

    Nanotech India 2009 is an International Conference on nanotechnology and its various applications being presented by Nanotech Impex India Pvt Ltd. The Conference aims to bridge the gap between the researchers in the lab and the business community in the boardroom across the world, providing...

  • 17 Aug 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 21 Aug 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis

    Category: Conference

    This short course on Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis has been very well received since 1985, with offerings alternating in Europe and the U.S. It has been attended by more than 2500 students, and their evaluations of the course have categorized the course as being essential training in the...

  • 27 Aug 2009
    7:00 PM EDT 
    to 27 Aug 2009
    8:00 PM EDT 

    The Transistor: From Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain to single molecules and atoms

    Category: Seminar

    Sven Rogge, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands In this lecture we will review the working principles of transistors and their evolution from the first bipolar device in 1947 to state-of-the-art field-effect nanodevices that will power future...

  • 03 Sep 2009
    7:00 PM EDT 
    to 03 Sep 2009
    8:00 PM EDT 

    Your Career Choices after Graduate School and The Most-Neglected Item in your Career Development: Communication Skills

    Category: Seminar

    Gerhard Klimeck, Technical Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • 06 Oct 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 07 Oct 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Nanomaterials and the Environment & Instrumentation, Metrology, and Analytical Methods

    Category: Conference

    This is the second workshop in the National Nanotechnology Initiative's nanoEHS workshop series. This highly integrated workshop brings together the areas of ecosystem effects and fate & transport with efforts to understand, predict, and quantify the chemical and physical properties and behaviors...

  • 19 Oct 2009
    12:00 PM EDT 
    to 20 Oct 2009
    9:00 PM EDT 

    Nanotribology Session at the 2009 ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference

    Category: Conference

    The Nanotribology Session at the ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference will consist of two days of presentations on nanoscale friction, wear, and lubrication research.

  • 03 Nov 2009
    2:00 PM EST 
    to 03 Nov 2009
    7:30 PM EST 

    NanoTeach 2009: A South Region Conference to Inspire K-12 Nanoscience Education

    Category: Conference

    If you are an innovative, K-12 teacher curious about emerging technology and want to know what the big deal is about nanotechnology this conference is for you. Join us in Danville, Virginia where the experts in the field will be your guides to the nanoworld. Your adventure begins with Nobel...

  • 05 Nov 2009
    10:30 PM EST 
    to 06 Nov 2009
    9:45 PM EST 

    NCN Workshop on Simulation-based Learning: Exploring Semicondutors, Nanoelectronics, and Beginning Chemistry [By Invitation Only]

    Category: Conference

    Workshop attendees will learn: • how to employ the “How People Learn Framework” to design effective student learning experiences using www.nanoHUB.org; • about the opportunities and the issues that attend the use of simulations in learning situations; • ideas about how best to utilize...

  • 16 Nov 2009
    1:30 PM EST 
    to 16 Nov 2009
    10:00 PM EST 

    California Nano Industry Network Nanotechnology V Symposium

    Category: Conference

    The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the California Nano Industry Network is hosting the fifth Nanotechnology Symposium: "DTSC/California Nano-Industry Network Symposium" on November 16, 2009 in the Byron Sher Auditorium on the 2nd Floor of the Cal/EPA Building, 1001 I Street,...

  • 17 Nov 2009
    1:00 PM EST 
    to 18 Nov 2009
    10:00 PM EST 

    Nanomaterials and Human Health & Instrumentation, Metrology, and Analytical Methods

    Category: Conference

    This is the third workshop in the National Nanotechnology Initiative's nanoEHS workshop series. This highly integrated workshop brings together the areas of nanomaterials and human health research with efforts to understand, predict, and quantify the chemical and physical properties and behaviors...

  • 17 Nov 2009
    1:00 PM EST 
    to 18 Nov 2009
    10:00 PM EST 

    SciMeeting2009

    Category: Seminar

    This meeting will combine scientific presentations, user exchanges, training and consortium communications. Scienomics provides software technology that helps organizations to use simulation technology in their R&D activities as a tool for efficient product and process design and development.

  • 18 Nov 2009
    1:00 PM EST 
    to 19 Nov 2009
    10:00 PM EST 

    Nano Petroleum, Gas and Petro-Chemical Industries Conference

    Category: Conference

    Fuel your imagination! Nanotechnology offers us a radically new way of thinking about energy. It offers an entirely new frontier for exploration: the ability to stretch the limits of our current energy sources, and to go beyond these sources into new and uncharted territories. Join nanoscientists...

  • 05 Dec 2009
    1:00 PM EST 
    to 06 Dec 2009
    10:00 PM EST 

    NanoBusiness Summit: 'Big Capital Meets Small Tech'

    Category: Other

    The Nanotech Business Summit is the first forum of its kind to facilitate the integration of nanotech products into the global economy by connecting Middle Eastern capital with small tech innovations. This conference targets researchers, policy-makers, and executives in the region for them to...

  • 07 Dec 2009
    1:00 PM EST 
    to 07 Dec 2009
    9:00 AM EST 

    Prof. Oden at Illinois Dec 7, 2009: Newmark Distinguished Lecture

    Category: Seminar

    Validation, Prediction, and Error Control in Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling: Foundational Issues in Modern Computational Science

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