Pan American Advanced Study Institutes (PASI): Materials for Micro- and Nanoelectronics; Renaca, Chile; January 2007

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1月在智利雷纳卡举行，主题为微电子和纳米电子材料。该研究所由罗格斯大学的Torgny Gustafsson博士组织，将有来自美国和拉丁美洲的大约35名参与者，包括研究生和初级和成熟的调查人员，以及大约15名讲师(从美洲六个不同国家挑选的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一研究领域的最新回顾。在原子水平上设计和控制材料的能力的发展是决定电子设备未来的主要因素之一。该研究所的目标是向一群年轻科学家展示这一快速变化的微电子和纳米电子学领域的最新发展。广泛的应用和材料将赋予研究所重大的跨学科性质，并应促进促进该领域发展的新思想的交流，最终加强拉丁美洲初级和高级研究人员与美国同行之间的关系。提交研究所的材料将以光盘形式出版，并将在指定的网站上张贴，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 Renaca, Chile in January of 2007, on the topic of materials for micro- and nanoelectronics. Organized by Dr. Torgny Gustafsson of Rutgers University, the institute will involve approximately 35 participants from the United States and Latin America including graduate students and junior and established investigators, and about 15 instructors (internationally recognized scientists, active in the field, selected from six different countries in the Americas). 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 this field of research. The development of an ability to design and control materials at the atomic level is one of the main factors that will determine the future of electronic devices. The goal of this institute is to present to a group of young scientists the very recent developments in this rapidly changing area of micro- and nanoelectronics. 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 the field 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 on a CD-ROM and its availability will be posted in a designated web site for further dissemination to the scientific community and the public at large.