Pan American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI): Ultrafast and Ultrasmall; New Frontiers In and Beyond AMO Physics; Buzios, Brazil; October 2007

这个泛美高级研究所(PASI)由美国国家科学基金会和能源部(DOE)联合支持，将于2007年10月在巴西的布齐奥斯举行，主题是超快和超小，作为原子、分子和光学(AMO)物理、化学和材料科学的新前沿。该研究所由密苏里大学罗拉分校的Robert DuBois博士组织，将有来自美国和拉丁美洲的大约30名参与者，包括研究生和初级和成熟的调查人员，以及大约10名教员(活跃在该领域的国际公认的科学家)。这些活动将包括辅导讲座、高级主题介绍、圆桌讨论和海报会议，目的是为与会者提供对这些相对较新的研究领域--超快和超小型--的最新回顾。超快包括从飞秒到阿秒的时间范围，而超小型研究的长度从几个纳米到几十个纳米不等。最近正在进行的工作的结果已经扩展了物理、化学和材料科学的边界，并影响了我们对物理和化学过程的理解。广泛的应用和材料将赋予研究所重要的跨学科性质，并应促进促进这些领域的新思想的交流，并最终加强拉丁美洲初级和高级调查人员与美国同行之间的关系。提交给研究所的材料将张贴在指定的网站上，以便进一步向科学界和广大公众传播。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI), jointly supported by the NSF and Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in Buzios, Brazil in October, 2007, concerning the ultra-fast and ultra-small as new frontiers in and beyond atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics, chemistry, and material science. Organized by Dr. Robert DuBois of the University of Missouri Rolla, the institute will involve approximately 30 participants from the United States and Latin America including graduate students and junior and established investigators, and about 10 instructors (internationally recognized scientists, active in the field). The activities will consist of a combination of tutorial lectures, advanced-topic presentations, round table discussions, and poster sessions, with the goal of providing the participants with an up-to-date review of these relatively new areas of research, the ultra-fast and the ultra-small. The ultra-fast includes timeframes ranging from femtoseconds to attoseconds, and the ultra-small studies lengths ranging from a few to many tens of nanometers. Recent results on work being done are already expanding the borders of physics, chemistry and material science and influencing our understanding of physical and chemical processes. 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 posted in a designated web site for further dissemination to the scientific community and the public at large.