Pan American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI): Ultrafast and Ultrasmall; New Frontiers In and Beyond AMO Physics; Buzios, Brazil; October 2007

由美国国家科学基金会和美国能源部共同支持的泛美高级研究所（PASI）将于2007年10月在巴西布齐奥斯举行，讨论超快和超小作为原子、分子和光学（AMO）物理学、化学和材料科学的新前沿。 该研究所由密苏里州罗拉大学的罗伯特·杜波依斯博士组织，将有来自美国和拉丁美洲的大约30名参与者，包括研究生和初级和成熟的研究人员，以及大约10名教员（国际公认的科学家，活跃在该领域）。 这些活动将包括辅导讲座，高级主题演讲，圆桌讨论和海报会议的组合，目的是为参与者提供这些相对较新的研究领域，超快和超小的最新回顾。 超快包括从飞秒到阿秒的时间范围，以及从几纳米到几十纳米的超小研究长度。 最近的工作成果已经扩大了物理学，化学和材料科学的边界，并影响了我们对物理和化学过程的理解。广泛的应用和材料将使研究所具有重要的跨学科性质，并应促进新思想的相互交流，以推进这些领域，并最终，加强拉丁美洲初级和高级研究人员与美国同行之间的关系。在研究所提交的材料将张贴在指定的网站上，以便进一步传播给科学界和广大公众。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI), jointly supported by the NSF and Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in Buzios, Brazil in October, 2007, concerning the ultra-fast and ultra-small as new frontiers in and beyond atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics, chemistry, and material science. Organized by Dr. Robert DuBois of the University of Missouri Rolla, the institute will involve approximately 30 participants from the United States and Latin America including graduate students and junior and established investigators, and about 10 instructors (internationally recognized scientists, active in the field). The activities will consist of a combination of tutorial lectures, advanced-topic presentations, round table discussions, and poster sessions, with the goal of providing the participants with an up-to-date review of these relatively new areas of research, the ultra-fast and the ultra-small. The ultra-fast includes timeframes ranging from femtoseconds to attoseconds, and the ultra-small studies lengths ranging from a few to many tens of nanometers. Recent results on work being done are already expanding the borders of physics, chemistry and material science and influencing our understanding of physical and chemical processes. The wide range of applications and materials will impart a significant interdisciplinary nature to the Institute, and should foster the cross-fertilization of new ideas to advance these fields and, ultimately, increase relations between Latin American junior and senior investigators and their counterparts in the U.S. Materials presented at the Institute will be posted in a designated web site for further dissemination to the scientific community and the public at large.