Invitation

We invite you to a one-day in-house workshop "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology", Thursday July 11, in room S-240 in the basement of the math tower, 9am to 5pm.  We especially urge you to submit a brief abstract of a talk that you could give at this meeting.  The aims are informational and social.  There will be short talks by faculty in diverse departments. Specifically, we expect that:
 

  1. People will be inspired to consider new interdepartmental collaborations.
  2. A web-site catalog of Stony Brook research activities related to nanoscience will be set up.
  3. Leaders for follow-up activities will be identified.
  4. Discussion of a Stony Brook "nanocenter" will begin.
We are sending this initial solicitation to a list of 61 faculty members. Please share it with colleagues who may be interested.  The workshop will be open to students and post-docs.  However, seating is limited to 85, with space for 15 more to stand.  There will be approximately 20 talks, 15 minutes each with 5 minutes for questions, plus lunch and 2 coffee breaks.
Lunch and coffee for registered attendees will be free, paid by Prof. Gail Habicht, vice president for research.  Dr. Richard Osgood will give an introduction to aims of the BNL Nanocenter.

If more than 20 abstracts of talks are received, the organizers will try to invent an equitable process.  Possible procedures include having a follow-up workshop later in the summer, or asking speakers with related projects to combine their presentations into one.  Probably we will have posters in addition to talks.  We will aim for broad coverage and especially encourage younger faculty to contribute.  Speakers and attendees should commit to attending the whole program.

What you should do:
 

  1. Inform us if you plan to attend.  We do not yet know how many responses will come in, so please don't invite your students and post-docs yet.  We need a preliminary count after which we will inform you many students and postdocs can come from each group.  Please tell us how many students and post-docs might attend if we have room.
  2. Please send an abstract.  Indicate whether it is for a 15-minute oral presentation or for a poster.


Please email these communications to pgouma@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

Yours truly,

Philip B. Allen
Perena Gouma