Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Tools and Techniques in Nanoscience; San Jose, Costa Rica; June 2006

泛美高级研究所(PASI)奖由美国国家科学基金会和能源部共同支持，将于2006年6月在哥斯达黎加圣何塞举行，主题为纳米科学中的工具和技术。该研究所由约翰·霍普金斯大学应用物理实验室的Michael J.Betenbaugh博士和Stergios J.Papadakis博士组织，将专注于两个主要领域：创造纳米级材料并将其自我组装成更大设备和结构的化学技术，以及用于表征这些纳米材料的复杂工具的基本操作原理。课程内容包括DNA自组装、金属和半导体模板电沉积纳米线的生长和自组装、胶体颗粒的受控组装以及实践演示。该研究所打算促进整个美洲的合作，并促进中美洲和拉丁美洲的科学研究。这些主题将为参与的研究生和博士后研究人员提供真正的教育体验，而与来自不同领域的大量研究人员见面和互动的机会将拓宽参与者的视野，并促进富有成效的研究合作。传播将通过一个网站完成，该网站将描述PASI的目标并事先进行宣传，将用于接受研究所的申请并描述讲师将涵盖的主题，并将经常更新，以在之后传播PASI的结果。所有讲师的演讲都将在网站上提供，以便学员在返回本国机构时轻松访问

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in San Jose, Costa Rica in June 2006 on the topics of tools and techniques in nanoscience. Organized by Dr. Michael J. Betenbaugh and Dr. Stergios J. Papadakis of the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the institute will focus on two main areas: chemical techniques to create nanometer-scale materials and self assemble them into larger devices and structures, and the basic operating principles of the sophisticated tools used to characterize these nanomaterials. Lectures on the topics of DNA self assembly, metallic and semiconducting template electrodeposited nanowire growth and self-assembly, and controlled assembly of colloidal particles will be included, together with hands-on demonstrations. This institute intends to foster collaborations throughout the Americas and to promote scientific research in Central and Latin America. The topics will provide a genuine educational experience for the participating graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, while the opportunity to meet and interact socially with a large number of researchers from various fields will broaden the horizons of the participants as well as foster productive research collaborations. Dissemination will be accomplished via a website that will describe the goals of the PASI and publicize it beforehand, will be used to accept applications for the institute and describe the topics that the lecturers will cover, and will be updated frequently to disseminate results from the PASI afterwards. All of the lecturers' presentations will be made available on the website for easy access by participants when they return to their home institutions