Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Workshop at NanoTR4, Istanbul, Turkey June 9-13, 2008.

这次研讨会的目标是将从事纳米科学和纳米技术领域工作的美国和土耳其科学家/技术专家/院士聚集在一起，最终目的是准备关于纳米科学和纳米技术各个方面的联合研究项目，并启动合作研究计划。讲习班将由E.Sancaktar教授与土耳其同行伊斯坦布尔技术大学(国际电联)物理系主任H.Unlu教授合作组织和管理。讲习班将与NanoTR4((http://www.nanotr4.itu.edu.tr/))计划于2008年6月9日至13日在土耳其伊斯坦布尔国际电联校园同时举行。这次研讨会对美国和土耳其都很有用，因为它将允许美国科学家/技术员/院士与土耳其以及加拿大、德国、爱尔兰、日本、荷兰和英国等其他国家的同行进行互动，以提高他们对美国、土耳其以及世界不同国家纳米科学和纳米技术活动的认识，并鼓励在这些领域的合作。美国与会者将有很好的机会实现研讨会的目标，有能力与大量国际知名的科学家/技术专家互动。因此，这些互动将构成与外国合作伙伴(S)(国家科学基金会)发展和协调研究和教育活动的年度阶段。参加研讨会的美国人包括来自10个不同州的13所大学的13名院士和5名研究生，以及来自美国联邦研究机构的2名科学家。参与的院士级别从助理教授到杰出教授不等。这项提议的智力价值在于这项研究的独创性，将由14名美国著名研究人员(I.Aksay博士、A.Erdemir博士、B.Hinds博士、N.Hing博士、J.Irudayaraj博士、A.Isayev博士、L.Jia博士、A.Madakannan博士、R.Martini博士、H.Onyuksel博士、J.Rogers博士、J.Ross博士、R.Ruoff博士、E.Sancaktar博士、T.Yildirim博士)以及5名有前途的美国博士生(T.Lewis、T.McNeish、M.Saunders、M.Wadley、J.Weatherall)，其中两人来自非裔美国少数群体，并通过建设性的讨论和未来可能建立的合作来推动这些研究活动。要涵盖的主题和高级主题对大多数行业、医疗保健、材料和能源节约、生物、环境和教育等领域的广泛现代技术至关重要，因此将对我们的社会产生广泛影响。在这次研讨会中，我们将讨论基本问题，特别强调纳米材料解决一系列问题的方法。讲习班将汇集来自物理、化学、材料科学和工程学的研究人员，审查目前的状况，分享新的想法和结果，以描绘悬而未决的问题，并指导未来的研究。该讲习班还将有强大的教育和学生宣传部分，并将为年轻的研究人员提供机会，介绍他们的研究成果，并了解这一快速发展领域的最新发展。该项目由CMMI和国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

The goal of this workshop is to bring together American and Turkish Scientists/Technologists/Academicians, who work in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology areas for the ultimate purpose of preparing joint research projects on various aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology and to start collaborative research programs. The Workshop will be organized and managed by Prof. E. Sancaktar in collaboration with his Turkish counterpart, Prof.H. Unlu, Chair of the Physics Department at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). The Workshop will be held concurrently with NanoTR 4 ((http://www.nanotr4.itu.edu.tr/) scheduled for June 9-13, 2008, in Istanbul, Turkey, at the campus of ITU. This Workshop will be useful to both the U.S. and Turkey, as it will allow American scientists/Technologists/Academicians to interact with their regional counterparts from Turkey, as well as those from other countries, including Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands and the U.K., to increase their awareness on nanoscientific and nanotechnological activities in the U.S., and Turkey, as well as different countries around the world, and to encourage collaboration in these areas. The American attendees will have an excellent opportunity to accomplish the goals of the Workshop with the ability to interact with a large number of internationally renowned scientists/technologists. Thus, these interactions will constitute the yearly phases of developing and coordinating research and education activities with foreign partner(s) (NSF). The American attendees of the Workshop areacademicians (13) and graduate students (5) representing 13 Universities from 10 different states, as well as 2 scientists from U.S. Federal research organizations. The participating academicians hold ranks varying from assistant professor to distinguished professor. These prospective participants were invited pursuant to nomination by their peers from the U.S, as well as by theScientific Advisory Board and the Organizing Committee of NanoTR 4.The intellectual merits of this proposal reside in the originality of the research to be presented by 14 prominent American researchers (Drs. I. Aksay, A. Erdemir, B. Hinds, N. Horing, J. Irudayaraj, A. Isayev, L. Jia, A. Madakannan, R. Martini, H. Onyuksel, J. Rogers, J. Ross, R. Ruoff, E. Sancaktar, T. Yildirim), as well as 5 promising American doctoral students (T. Lewis, T. McNeish, M. Saunders, M. Wadley, J. Weatherall), two of whom from the African-American minority group, and the furthering of these research activities by constructive discussions and possible future collaborations to be established. The topics to be covered and advanced are of vital importance to a wide range of modern technologies in most industries, healthcare, conservation of materials and energy, biology, environment, and education, and thus, will have broad impacts on our society. In this Workshop, we will address fundamental issues with particular emphasis on the nanomaterials solutions to a wide range of problems. The Workshop will bring together researchers from physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering to review the current status, to share new ideas and results to delineate outstanding problems and to guide future research. This Workshop will also have a strong educational andstudent outreach component and will provide opportunities for young investigators to present their research findings and to learn about the most recent developments in this rapidly moving field. This project is jointly funded by CMMI and the Office of International Science and Engineering.