Suggestions from past participants inform this year's Nano Bootcamp

Due to the popularity of its first ASME Nano Training Bootcamp, which was held last July, the Society's Nanotechnology Institute is offering a second Bootcamp this summer.

While this year's program will still include classroom lectures, interactive coverage of nano-related topics and a comprehensive overview of instrumentation, techniques and facilities, it also will include a couple of new features, as suggested by participants of last year's event.

As a result of the feedback from last year's participants, improvements have been made to the program for the 2004 Nano Bootcamp. These adjustments include modifying the sequence of the program so that participants can get an understanding of nanostructures at the start of the program during a lab session being offered on the first day of the event at Northwestern University's Nuance Center. Another new element, a session on societal impacts, will also be added this year due to attendee suggestions.

The Nanotechnology Institute's Education Committee is organizing the event, to be held from June 29-July 2 in Evanston, Ill. The committee includes Pamela Norris of the University of Virginia, Gang Bao of Georgia Tech and Vinayak Dravid, director of Northwestern University's Nuance Center.

As it was last year, the ASME Nano Bootcamp will again be a detailed and tutorial-based examination of advances in fundamentals related to nanoscience in a wide variety of fields. The program will also explore prospects for translating these advances into useful nanotechnologies.

The Institute is offering the program in Evanston so that participants will have an opportunity to visit the three sectors that make up the Nuance Center: the Nanoscale Integrated Fabrication, Testing and Imaging (NIFTI) user facility, the Electron Probe Instrumentation Center (EPIC), and the Keck Interdisciplinary Surface Science Center (Keck-II).

The NIFTI facility is primarily comprised of scanning probe and related lithography instrumentation for patterning, fabrication and localized measurements. EPIC features an array of scanning and transmission electron microscopes (SEM and TEM) as well as a comprehensive specimen preparation facility. The Keck-II center is home to a range of state-of-the-art surface science- and related instrumentation, including X-ray photoelectron spectroscopes (XPS), time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometers (ToF SIMS), and ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscopes/atomic force microscopes (UHV STM/AFM), among others.

Sessions to be offered during the seminar will cover areas such as characterization, solids and devices, societal impact and fluids/synthesis/devices.

Space is limited to 80 participants. Registration is $595 for students; $1,595 for ASME members and attendees from government, not-for-profit and academic institutions; and $1,995 for nonmembers.

For more information on the 2004 Nano Training Bootcamp, contact Raj Manchanda, director of advanced technology programs at (212) 591-7789, or e-mail nano@asme.org.
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