Cretan Workshop on Global Challenges and Future Opportunities for Nanomanufacturing and Nanotechnology; Crete, Greece; June 29-30, 2011

这笔赠款为2011年6月29-30日在希腊克里特岛举办的关于纳米制造和纳米技术的全球挑战和未来机遇的克里坦研讨会提供资金。这个研讨会有两个主要目标。首先，将一组美国研究人员和他们的外国同行聚集在一起，以确定当前的挑战、未来有益的研究方向、优先事项和方法，并在纳米制造方面的进步有望产生巨大影响的特定领域提供合作机会，这些领域包括：(I)当前的纳米挑战；(Ii)对环境的影响；(Iii)能源转换和储存；(Iv)生物技术；以及(V)大规模纳米制造、创新和商业化。第二个目标是为几名美国研究生提供一个独特的机会，让他们获得国际研究经验，通过海报演示来接触、讨论和展示他们的工作，接触到跨学科的环境，并通过与国外研究人员的合作提供潜在的高收益。受邀者/参与者的初步名单包括来自美国、欧洲、该地区(希腊)和世界各地在纳米科学和纳米技术领域处于科学前沿的世界领导人和知名研究人员。这次研讨会为交流思想和开放讨论提供了一个极好的场所和环境，使研究人员能够发表演讲？最新工作，加强努力，通过国际合作推进这一领域的研究前沿。讲习班将为人力资源开发和研究生教育、培训以及接触跨学科的国际环境提供重要机会。精英卷将以电子格式汇编，所有受邀的演示文稿和海报都将由学生提交。此外，与会者可以根据他们的陈述提交稿件，以供考虑发表在一些声誉良好的参考期刊上。将作出特别努力，向任职人数不足的少数群体、妇女和残疾人提供讲习班。还将通过与西班牙裔专业工程师协会(设在UTA校区)的互动，争取代表人数不足的少数群体。

This grant provides funding to organize the Cretan Workshop on Global Challenges and Future Opportunities for Nanomanufacturing and Nanotechnology in Crete, Greece, on June 29-30, 2011. This workshop has two main objectives. First, to bring together a group of US researchers and their foreign counterparts to identify current challenges, future rewarding research directions, priorities and approaches and to provide opportunities for collaboration on specific fields where advances in nanomanufacturing have the promise for an immense impact, namely: (i) Current Nano Challenges; (ii) Environmental Implications; (iii) Energy Conversion and Storage; (iv) Biotechnology; and (v) Large Scale Nanomanufacturing, Innovation and Commercialization. The second objective is to provide a unique opportunity for several US graduate students to gain international research experience, meet, discuss and present their work via poster presentations, be exposed to an interdisciplinary environment and offer potentially high benefits through collaboration with investigators abroad. The preliminary list of invitees/participants includes world leaders and renowned researchers from the US, Europe, the region (Greece) and around the world who are in the scientific forefront of nanoscience and nanotechnology.This workshop provides an excellent venue and environment for the exchange of ideas and open discussions that allow for the presentation of the researchers? latest work, augmenting efforts to advance the research frontiers in this field via international collaborations. The workshop will provide a significant opportunity for human resource development and graduate education, training and exposure to an interdisciplinary international environment. An elite volume will be compiled in electronic format with all invited presentations and posters presented by the students. In addition, participants can submit manuscripts based on their presentations for consideration for publication to a number of reputable referred journals. Special efforts will be devoted to make the workshop available for underrepresented minorities, women and persons with disabilities. Underrepresented minorities will also be pursued through interaction with the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (housed on UTA campus).