PASI Microscopy Techniques for Nanomaterials; Cancun, Mexico, August 11-22, 2008

这一泛美高级研究院(PASI)奖由美国国家科学基金会和能源部(DOE)联合支持，将于2008年8月11日至22日在墨西哥坎昆举行。这次PASI由德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的Miguel Jose Yacaman博士组织，将包括讲座、动手实验室模块和面向来自美洲大陆的博士后、研究生和初级教师的海报会议。与会者将包括来自美国的25名学生和初级研究人员，来自拉丁美洲机构的25名学生和初级研究人员，以及15名讲师。讲座主题包括：层析成像、衍射和计算方法、共聚焦和其他技术，这些技术将增加对新的纳米表征显微镜方法的熟悉。除了讲座，活动还将包括新型光学显微镜的实践教学和讨论，以及纳米结构表征的进展和全息技术的介绍，所有这些都是为了向参与者提供这一研究领域的最新回顾。这项关于纳米材料表征的显微技术的PASI将为参与者提供最新的透射电子显微镜(TEM)技术的知识，并将提高他们研究的质量和影响。PASI的结果将通过网络和光盘传播，以促进显微技术在美洲的进步。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place August 11-22, 2008 in Cancun Mexico. Organized by Dr. Miguel Jose Yacaman of the University of Texas-Austin, this PASI will include lectures, hands-on laboratory modules, and poster sessions for postdocs, graduate students, and junior faculty from the American continent. Participants will include 25 students and junior researchers from the United States and 25 from Latin American institutions, as well as 15 lecturers. Lecture topics will include: tomography, diffraction, and calculation methods, confocal and other techniques that will increase familiarity with new nano-characterization microscopy-based methods. In addition to the lectures, activities will include hands-on instruction and discussion of new optical microscopes, as well as presentations of advances and holographic techniques for nanostructures characterization, all with the goal of providing participants with an up-to-date review of this field of research.This PASI on microscopy techniques for the characterization of nanomaterials will provide the participants with knowledge of the latest transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques and will increase the quality and impact of their research. The PASI results will be disseminated through the web and in CDs to promote the advance of microscopy in the Americas.