The NSF Workshop in Programmed Self-Assembly

 

The NSF Workshop in Programmed Self-Assembly, Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, UT (co-located with the FNANO05 conference) will consider methods and scientific challenges to developing novel self-assembly methods and applications that:

- Can be applied to a given scale (ranging from molecular to micro to even larger scales),

- Relate to or utilize computational methods, provide programmability and/or

- Utilize interdisciplinary techniques from at least two scientific disciplines (e.g., chemistry and mathematics).

 

NSF develops new funding programs biased on new emerging research challenges and opportunities, and applications. This Workshop provides an opportunity for you to have input to this process.

 

The main session of this NSF Workshop in Programmed Self-Assembly will be 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, April 26, 2005, Golden Cliff Room, Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, UT (Co-Located with the FNANO Conference). A sumptuous dessert and other after-dinner refreshments will also be provided during the session. At that session, you are invited to make brief (5 minute with 3 pages of PPT allowed) presentation of your proposed research challenges (you can submit on the web without a presentation as well). 

 

 The audience will vote on the three best proposals presented at this NSF Workshop session and generous awards (two $100 awards and one $250 award) will be given to those top three presenters.

 

Request for Research Challenges in Programmed Self-Assembly

 

You are invited to submit your proposed research challenges and opportunities, and applications in Self-Assembly. Just fill in the form at web page http://www.cs.duke.edu/fnanonsf.php .

 

A Subsequent Report on Research Challenges in Programmed Self-Assembly

 

These responses will be automatically collected together at the web page http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/NSF/output.html .

 

In addition, the responses, presentations and discussions at the Workshop in Programmed Self-Assembly will be integrated after the Workshop into a report to NSF to be publicly posted at http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/NSF/ .