Pan American Advanced Studies Institute on Electronic Properties of Complex Systems; Cartagena, Colombia; June 6-17, 2011

这项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院（PASI）奖将于2011年6月6日至17日在哥伦比亚的卡塔赫纳举行。 PASI由普渡大学的Adam Wasserman博士组织，将汇集来自四个不同领域的顶尖理论和实验科学家，围绕如何确定复杂系统的电子特性这一基本问题。 光谱学，电子输运，激光化学和多尺度建模将讨论建立在这些领域中最重要的开放问题的目标。 拟议的PASI的形式包括课堂、讲座、圆桌会议和海报会议，将鼓励大约40名参与者充分参与理解主要问题并提出克服这些问题的新战略的过程。讲师/研究人员将来自美洲和欧洲，其中包括来自美洲各地的研究生和博士后。 该PASI的预期成果之一是在美国和拉丁美洲科学家之间建立新的合作关系，并促进该半球的纳米技术教育和研究工作。 PASI的结果将通过一个网站传播，所有讲座都将在该网站上公布。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place on June 6-17, 2011, in Cartagena, Colombia. Organized by Dr. Adam Wasserman of Purdue University, the PASI will bring together top theoretical and experimental scientists from four different fields centering on the fundamental question of how electronic properties of complex systems are determined. Spectroscopy, electronic transport, laser chemistry, and multiscale modeling will be discussed with the goal of establishing the most significant open problems in these fields. The format of the proposed PASI, with a mixture of classes, lectures, round-tables, and poster sessions, will encourage approximately forty participants to be fully engaged in the process of understanding the main problems and suggesting novel strategies to overcome them.Lecturers/researchers will be drawn from the Americas and Europe, and will include graduate students and post-docs from throughout the Americas. Among the expected outcomes of this PASI is the establishment of new collaborations between scientists in the U.S. and Latin-America and the promotion of nanotechnology education and research efforts in the hemisphere. Results from the PASI will be disseminated through a website where all the lectures will be made available.