International Conference on Sensors and Sensing in Biology and Engineering; held in Calabria, Italy, October 12-16, 2008

将于2008年10月在意大利卡拉布里亚组织一次关于“生物和工程中的传感器和传感”主题的国际会议，该会议将由NSF、ONR和AFOSR共同支持。拟议的会议将为自然和物理化学科学家、数学家和工程师提供一个必要的论坛，以分享与生物和人工传感器和传感有关的深入知识以及新概念和理论、发现和研究技术。书面书的子集(10-15)将由Springer-Verlag出版。会议将审查生物和工程学中传感器和传感的现有知识库，以期定义“最先进的”，并确定新的、令人兴奋的和有利可图的活动领域；帮助在会议与会者之间建立持久的关系；并向科学界和资助机构，特别是国家科学基金会提供急需的反馈，说明在生物启发的传感器和传感的基本理解和实际应用方面取得进展的主要障碍和重大挑战是什么。

A international conference on the subject of "Sensors and Sensing in Biology and Engineering" to be jointly supported by NSF, ONR and AFOSR, is organized and will be held in Calabria Italy in October, 2008. The proposed conference is to provide a needed forum for natural and physical-chemical scientists, mathematicians and engineers to share in depth knowledge as well as new concepts and theories, discoveries, and research technologies related to both biological and artificial sensors and sensing. A sub set (10 -15) of the written will be published by Springer-Verlag. The conference will examine the current knowledge base of sensors and sensing in biology and engineering with a view to defining the "state-of-the-art" and identifying new, exciting and profitable areas of activity; help establish lasting relationships among subsets of the conference attendees ; and provide badly needed feedback to the scientific community and the funding agencies, especially NSF, concerning what are the main impediments and the grand challenges impacting advances in the fundamental understanding and practical applications of bio-inspired sensors and sensing.