Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI): Study of Surfaces, Interfaces and Catalysis, Cuernavaca, Mexico, April 15 - April 20, 2007

这个由美国国家科学基金会和美国能源部共同支持的泛美高级研究所（PASI）将于2007年4月在墨西哥库埃纳瓦卡成立，研究表面、界面和催化作用。该研究所由威斯康辛大学密尔沃基分校的Wilfred T. Tysoe博士组织，将使来自美洲的高级研究生、博士后和初级研究人员熟悉表面科学的现代技术，并介绍用于研究表面化学现象的最新理论方法。活动将包括讲座、海报会议和高级主题演讲，以培训年轻科学家掌握新技术并将研究小组聚集在一起。广泛的应用和材料将使该研究所具有重要的跨学科性质，并应促进新思想的相互交流，以推动这些领域的发展，并最终增进拉丁美洲初级和高级研究人员与美国同行之间的关系。在该研究所提交的材料将在期刊上发表，笔记将在网站上公布，以加强传播。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI), jointly supported by the NSF and Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in Cuernavaca, Mexico in April 2007 on the study of surfaces, interfaces and catalysis. Organized by Dr. Wilfred T. Tysoe of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the institute will familiarize advanced graduate students, post-doctoral, and junior researchers from the Americas with modern techniques in surface science and serve as an introduction to the latest theoretical methods used to study surface-chemical phenomena. Activities will include lectures, poster sessions, and advanced topic presentations, in order to train young scientists in new techniques and bring together research groups. The wide range of applications and materials will impart a significant interdisciplinary nature to the institute, and should foster the cross-fertilization of new ideas to advance these fields and, ultimately, increase relations between Latin American junior and senior investigators and their counterparts in the U.S. Materials presented at the institute will be published in a journal and the notes will be posted in a website in order to enhance their dissemination.