Pan-American Advanced Institutes - PASI: on the Study of Surfaces, Interfaces and Catalysis, Merida, Venezuela, March 29 - April 06, 2003

泛美高级研究院(PASI)将与委内瑞拉中央大学的Francisco Machado博士和委内瑞拉梅里达的安第斯大学的Alfonso Loaiza博士合作，为加州大学河滨分校的Francisco Zaera博士提供支持。这一PASI的主要目标是让来自美洲的高级研究生、博士后和初级科学家熟悉表面科学和催化方面的最新进展，并促进新的美洲研究合作。该计划将正式向初级科学家介绍表面科学的现代实验技术和用于研究表面化学现象的最新理论方法。在拟议的活动之后，将举行一次研讨会，来自拉丁美洲和美国的研究小组将聚集在一起，讨论表面科学和催化方面的最新成果。

0217420ZaeraThis Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) will support Dr. Francisco Zaera of the University of California, Riverside in coordination with Dr. Francisco Machado of the Central University of Venezuela and Dr. Alfonso Loaiza of the University of the Andes in Merida, Venezuela. The main objectives of this PASI are to familiarize advanced graduate students, post-doctoral and junior scientists from the Americas on recent advances in surface science and catalysis as well as foster new inter-American research collaborations. The program will formally introduce beginning scientists to modern experimental techniques in surface science and to the latest theoretical methods used to study surface chemical phenomena. The proposed activity will be followed by a Symposium that will bring together research groups from Latin America and the United States to discuss the latest results in surface science and catalysis.