Nanovip

Running from June 6 to June 8, 2011 at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington Virginia, the 2011 TAPPI Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials will focus on the theme of Nanotechnology for a Sustainable Future.

Speakers will give presentations on subjects including :
-Importance of Nanotechnology/Nanomaterials to the Forest Products Industry of the 21st Century
- Nanocellulose research
- Production of renewable nanomaterials
Seperate from, but related to the TAPPI Conference, is a workshop on international standards for Nanocellulose. to be held on June 9th. Further information on the conference, workshop and how to register, is available at the websites.

http://www.tappinano.org/

The Crossroads Cultural Center-Houston and the University of St. Thomas will present “Science as an Adventure: A Conversation with Dr. Mauro Ferrari” on Tuesday, April 5.

Ferrari, president and CEO, and Ernest Cockrell Jr., Distinguished Endowed Chair of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute, will talk about the development of ideas, the sacrifice of hard work, the willingness to take risks and the creation of a community of researchers that share the same vision in biomedical nanotechnology.

The event is free and open to the public and will be held at the University of St. Thomas in Jones Hall, located at 3910 Yoakum.

For more information, call 713-823-2263 or email houston@crossroadsculturalcenter.org.

The ONAMI Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Initiative’s (SNNI) 6th annual Greener Nano Conference (GN11) – Advancing Applications and Reducing Risk – will be hosted by Hewlett-Packard Company at its Cupertino, CA site. This year, GN11 will be held in conjunction with the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council (GC3) Innovators Roundtable May 4-5. GN11 will explore challenges and opportunities facing nanotechnology in the next decade. We will address reproducibility in nanomaterials syntheses, and discuss methods in understanding nanomaterial properties and the impacts of nanomaterials in biological systems.

A pre-conference workshop, Greener Nano 101, will be held on Sunday, May 1st, followed by an opening dinner reception. This workshop is geared toward those new to the field and will focus on what policy-makers and regulators need to know about nanotechnology.

“NanoEHS” and “green chemistry” have become staples in nearly every undertaking or conversation involving nanotechnology. Is this change in mindset helping the community make progress in designing greener materials and processes, and supporting effective policy? Is the promise of nanomaterials innovation for energy, security, medicine, and for resource conservation and environmental protection being advanced or slowed down by all of this attention? It appears that, although many have embraced the principles of green chemistry and recognize the need for sound science to inform policy, reducing these principles to practice remains a barrier for most commercial endeavors.

GN11 will address challenges and opportunities for nanotechnology and delineate how companies can incorporate green nanotechnology into its products and processes. We will focus on two key research areas where reduction to practice has the most potential to significantly advance the field. We will highlight state-of-the-art in materials synthesis and characterization challenges, and discuss biological impacts of nanotechnology. We will kick off each session with overview/keynote talks followed by a session of “rapid fire” talks that delve into the technical aspects of the subjects.

On Monday evening we will hold a poster reception, with emphasis on the following topics:

• Greener nanomaterial design and synthesis
• Advances in nanomaterial characterization
• Greener nanomaterial production and manufacturing
• Impacts and distribution in living systems and the environment
• Commercialization and policy to advance nanotechnology

We will wrap up with a panel session focused on advancing greener industrial applications of nanotechnology. This panel session will consist of a series of presentations and in-depth discussions. On the Sunday before the conference, we will hold a GreenNano 101 workshop targeted toward new entries into the field as well as toward state and federal policymakers.

View the Program Agenda

For registration, abstract submission and hotel information, click here

XI INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC – PRACTICAL CONFERENCE
“BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION
OF HIGH TECHNOLOGIES IN INDUSTRY ”
(Scientific-technical, economical, juridical,
political science, social and international aspects)

27-29 April 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
www.htfr.org, htfr@esprito.com

Dear Colleagues!
Dear Sirs!

We are glad to inform you that THE XI international scientific-practical conference “Basic and applied research, development and application of high technologies in industry” will be held in 27-29 April 2011 St. Petersburg, Russia by the Institute of Atmospheric Optics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Institute of Applied Research and Technologies, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Russian Fund for Basic Research, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Thin Technologies (Co. Ltd), Pavlov Institute of Physiology Russian Academy of Sciences, the National Congress of Young People and other institutes, universities and the organizations.

At the plenary and section sessions of the Conference the following topics will be considered:

The role of federal and regional authorities, state and private industrial sectors, mass media in the development of the education, basic and applied researches (hereinafter, BAR) and high technologies (hereinafter, HT) in Russia, USA, CIS and EU countries and other developed countries. The comparative analysis, search of optimal mechanisms of interaction and management.
The state of the art and prospects of application of HТ results of basic and applied researches in various fields of science, education and industry (in particular, in military fields). Russia, the countries of CIS and EU, USA, China, India and other countries of the world:
Information and computer technologies (ICT), computer modelling, robotics, radio electronics, scientific instrument making, telecommunication systems, applied mathematics, direct and return problems, programming, cryptography and information protection databases;
Nanotechnologies, nanoelectronics, nanobiology, nanomedicine, nanometrology and nanoindustry;
Theoretical and applied physics, spectroscopy, atomic and nuclear physics, astronomy, radio physics, chemistry, physical chemistry, gas dynamics and hydrodynamics;
Physics and techniques of electrical discharges, optical, spectral, laser and plasma technologies, electronics, including big powers, nondestructive testing;
Atomic and nuclear technologies, aircraft, rocket design and astronautics;
Powder metallurgy, materials technology, composition materials and strengthening technologies;
Biotechnology, medicine, genetics, cytology, agriculture;
Global and regional climatology and ecology. Research of processes, diagnostics, the analysis of development processes, development of methods of climate and ecology control;
Extraction, processing and transportation of raw material, energetics, welding, construction, metallurgy, chemical and heavy industry, mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, transport, consumer production;
Standardization and automation of control systems of business, science, industry, regions and the state. The theory of steady development, computer simulation;
The international standardization of education, BAR, HT, and HT production. Problems, the analysis, forecasts;
Problems and ways of solution of economic efficiency and competitiveness in the world education market, BAR and HT in Russia and the CIS countries. Experience of the Eurounion, USA, China, India and other countries. Analytics, the comparative analysis.
Financial-politological, legislative – legal, social and international aspects of the development of higher and secondary education, BAR, HТ and HТ industry. Computer simulation.
Basic and applied researches, high technologies and the highly technological industry of double purpose of 21st century. Computer simulation.
Historiography and dialectics of the development of education, basic and applied researches, high technologies and the highly developed industry.
The number of papers is not limited. The official conference language – Russian, for foreign participants the English translation is provided. Participation in conference can be made both in presence and in absence, provided with publishing of works in the conference Composite book.

The deadline for sending applications for participation at conference: 04 April 2011.
The works should be sent before 14 April 2011.

More detailed information: www.htfr.org.
Phone in St. Petersburg: t/fax: +7(812)-332-9469, +7(812)-574-3017 , tel. for English and German: +7(921)-877-3624

DETAILS

December 1, 2010, 12:30pm (Light lunch at Noon)

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5th Floor Conference Room – Directions

WASHINGTON – There is an accelerating and non-uniform process of discoveries and innovations leading at times to emerging areas of science and technology such as nanotechnology around the year 2000. Only ten years after proposing a new definition and a long-term vision, nanotechnology also has become a socio-economic initiative in all developed countries and in many developing countries. A global science and societal endeavor has been initiated by the long-term nanotechnology R&D vision formulated in the 1999 report “Nanotechnology Research Direction: Vision for the next ten years” adopted as an official document of the National Science and Technology Council and published by Springer in 2000.

A new report, “Nanotechnology Research Directions for Societal Needs in 2020” outlines the foundational knowledge and infrastructure development in the last decade, the current ~$15 billion in R&D programs underpinning about $250 billion of products incorporating nanoscale components in the world in 2009, and the likely evolution towards a general purpose technology by 2020. The study includes opinions of leading experts from over 35 countries and brainstorming meetings hosted by the Word Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC) in 2010 in Chicago, Hamburg, Tokyo, Singapore and Arlington, VA. The full report will be made available at: www.wtec.org/nano2/.

Dr. Mihail (Mike) Roco will cover the reasons for establishing the National Nanotechnology Initiative and other national programs around the world, the main outcomes after ten years, the governance aspects including the nanotechnology EHS and ELSI issues, what has worked, what has not, and most importantly how we prepare now for the future.