This page is private, in the sense that web-crawlers like google and yahoo won't list it, as long as no one puts up a link to these pages, on their home-page, for example. The only reason to keep it private is because our work is, hopefully, just begun. When there is more to present, we can make it public with no embarassment.
The page has been up for 14 months, and still google can't find it. So it's still private. As long as we are keeping it private, there should be no harm in posting our mailing list of Stony Brook Faculty.
If you have suggestions for additions and/or improvements, please email Phil Allen or Perena Gouma (click on our names below.) We will keep compiling a list of those who want to be included in future announcements. If your name is not already on the "list of participants" (see the next paragraph), or if you know of others who should be included, please let us know.
Centers and Institutes at Stony Brook
The office of the VP for research maintains a web page with a large list of USB Research Facilities and USB Centers and Institutes Among these centers and institutes, the ones most directly doing materials research are:
Slightly farther afield are the:
News, July 2002
There was a campus-wide, in-house workshop, NANOSCIENCE AND
NANOTECHNOLOGY AT STONY BROOK , July 11, 2002. The letter
of invitation was sent to more than 50 faculty. Later we learned
of other faculty who should have been notified. Some of these found
out in time to come. The program
for the meeting is available in html format with links to the abstracts
which many of the speakers contributed. The list
of participants is available.
Rick Osgood was kind enough to come and gave an inspiring presentation about the Brookhaven plans for their nanocenter.
On August 13, Perena Gouma, Emilio Mendez, Fu-pen Chiang, and Phil Allen will drive to Albany for a visit to the Albany "School of Nanosciences." Their web page is professional and relatively useless, but if you look hard you can find a link to their staff.
Probably in January there will be another one-day workshop. Please contact Perena if you want to help organize, or have ideas or questions.
The Program Announcement for the FY 2003 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) grants is on the web. Gail Habicht has requested that pre-applications be submitted to Peter Saal by August 16. There is a working group forming with Chris Berndt as chair, aiming to do an NUE (nano undergrad education) proposal.
News, August 2002
Excerpts from the Mon, 12 Aug 2002 "VPR
Monday Memo."
[A great web index of the VPR's site is at <http://www.research.sunysb.edu/index2.html>.]
"Raymond Orbach, the new Director of the Office of Science [DOE],
in conjunction with his visit to Brookhaven National Laboratory for
its
annual review by the Department of Energy Office of Science, invited
vice
presidents for research from colleges and universities in the Northeast
to
attend a briefing at BNL. ... The Lab put on a very fine display
of some of
its major research facilities including the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy
Ion
Collider), the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), the 4 Tesla
MRI
for functional studies of the human brain, and a novel, potentially
field-deployable Single Particle Laser Ablation Time-of-flight Mass
Spectrometer for the detection and characterization of individual airborne
particulates, including disease spores. ...
Dr. Orbach described the Office of Science budget and distributed a
set of
8 "occasional
papers" addressing areas of scientific interest and
representing examples of the current thinking of the Office of Science
regarding future scientific opportunities. Among the papers are
discussions of the "Beauty of Nanoscale Science" which Dr. Orbach
described
as the "future of science," and "Biotechnology for Energy Security"
which
foresees a future in which plants and microbes are used to produce
energy,
remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and clean up hazardous waste.
Levon
Asryan, Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded
the highest Russian Scientific prize, the State Prize of the Russian
Federation, for "fundamental investigations of the formation processes
and
the properties of heterostructures with quantum dots and the development
of
lasers based on these structures." [Levon is a research scientist
in the
OptoElectronics
Research Group of the ECE department.]
Electron-Phonon Effects in Nanosystems Program. An international
workshop
on Electron-Phonon Effects in Nanosystems will be held September 23-25
at
the Montauk Yacht Club, Montauk, LI, addressing the electronic properties
of nanosystems which are influenced by electron-phonon (vibronic) effects.
In addition to exploring the phenomena where vibronic effects may be
important, the workshop will encourage interdisciplinary discussions
defining issues of potential importance to nanotechnology. Cosponsored
by
the University and Brookhaven National Laboratory, it features a highly
distinguished international roster of speakers from industry as well
as
academia. The URL for the workshop Website, where an online registration
form may be completed, is
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~vibronic/
Additional information about the event is available from Prof. Philip
Allen
in Physics and Astronomy, allen@felix.physics.sunysb.edu"
web page maintained by Philip
B. Allen and Pelagia-Irene
Gouma
previous update 3/18/2003
another small update 8/19/2003
This page may get updated again in the near future.