4/23/2010
Mihail Roco, senior advisor on nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation, will be the featured speaker at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) Annual Nanotechnology Workshop on May 6-7. The workshop will be held at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory on the engineering campus. Interim Chancellor Robert Easter will deliver welcoming remarks.
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Mihail Roco, senior advisor on nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation, will be the featured speaker at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) Annual Nanotechnology Workshop on May 6-7. The workshop will be held at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory on the engineering campus. Interim Chancellor Robert Easter will deliver welcoming remarks.
“As a signature event at Illinois, the CNST nanotechnology workshop draws representatives from industry and academia, and state and federal agencies," explained Irfan Ahmad, CNST associate director and workshop co-chair. "The workshop is regional in scope and will cover a broad range of nanoscience and nanotechnology topics including bionanotechnology and nanomedicine, with faculty presentations, panel discussions, and student poster sessions.
"The broad objective is to showcase University of Illinois research in bionanotechnology/nanomedicine, nanoelectronics/ nanophotonics, nanomaterials/nanomanufacturing, and computational nanotechnology/ nanomechanics,” said Ahmad, who is a research faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.
“The CNST-led forums and workshops have contributed tremendously toward the formation of multidisciplinary teams leading to the establishment of multi-million dollar new nanotechnology centers on-campus," said Workshop Chair Rashid Bashir, who also is director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory and a Bliss Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering. These include the NCI-funded Siteman Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (SCCNE) with Washington University, the US Army-TATRC-funded Micro and Nano-mediated 3D Cardiac Tissue Engineering project, the USAID-funded Nanomedicine for Cancer Research project, the planning phase of the NSF-funded Center for Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (CAPN) with Purdue University, and the most recently funded NSF science and technology center on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Structures (EBICS) in collaboration with MIT and Georgia Institute of Technology.
In addition to a host of experts from the Illinois faculty, there will be presentations from several off-campus researchers, including Vicki Grassian, University of Iowa; Vinayak Dravid, Northwestern University; Paul Bohn, Notre Dame University; Joseph Irudayaraj, Purdue University; Fatih Uckun, University of Southern
California; Younan Xia, Washington University in Saint Louis, and Hongda Chen, USDA.
The CNST workshop is co-sponsored by the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Institute for Genomic Biology, the Center on Nanoscale Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS), the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (SCCNE), and the Center on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS).
Jimmy Hsia, a member of the workshop organizing committee, noted that CNST’s role has been pivotal in conducting hands-on trainings, by organizing international summer schools at Illinois funded by the NSF, jointly with the Center for Cellular Mechanics (2007) on Mechanosensitivity and Nanofabricated Devices; Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4, 2009) on Cellular and Molecular Mechanics with a focus on Enabling Technologies; and on Biosensing and Bioactuation (2010). Hsia is a professor of mechanical science and engineering, an associate dean of Graduate College, and a member of the CNST.
The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
The University of Illinois Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is the premier center for nanotechnology research, education, and outreach activities. CNST draws its strength from working as a collaboratory involving the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, RJ Carver Biotechnology Center, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Institute for Genomic Biology, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Center for Nanoscale Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing Systems, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the School of Chemical Sciences. The CNST has spearheaded efforts leading to the development of multidisciplinary teams and establishment of federally funded centers and projects. It is working toward seamless integration of interdisciplinary research from atoms and materials to devices and systems.
CNST is uniquely located to harness the entrepreneurial and technical spirit in the Midwest, with ongoing industrial linkages as it prepares tomorrow's workforce. The CNST thrives on its cutting-edge research in bionanotechnology, computational nanotechnology, nanocharacterization, nanoelectromechanical systems, nanoelectronics, nanofabrication, nanomaterials, nanomanufacturing, nanomedicine, and nanophotonics.
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For further information and registration, visit: www.cnst.illinois.edu.
Contact: Irfan Ahmad, associate director, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, 217/333-2015 or D’Anne Winston, 217/244-1353.
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