USA Science and Engineering Festival Expo
October 23-24, 2010
NNIN will be part of the USA Science Engineering Festival Expo that will occur on October 23 and 24, 2010 at the National Mall in Washington, DC. The event is a culmination of two weeks of events celebrating science and engineering. The two-day Expo will take place at the National Mall with over 500 science & engineering organizations from all over the United States providing hands-on, fun science activities to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.
For more information: http://www.usasciencefestival.org/
Contact Dr. Larry Bock at biobock@mac.com or 760-846-3473

2010 Joint NNIN/C and NCN Fall Workshop
November 15-16, 2010
Location:Cornell Nanoscale Facility, Cornell
An International Roadmap for Collaboration in Nanoscale Simulations

Nanoscience relies on intensive atomistic simulations that generate copious amounts of data. Since various ab-initio and empirical approaches exist in the field, there is a growing need to develop a common collaborative framework to provide meaningful comparisons between calculations and to also provide a set of robust technical compoents and results to help the next generation of researchers.

This workshop brings together leading figures in the fields of materials and nanoscale simulation to help develop a set of lingua franca formats and libraries for easy translation of input and output files between codes. We will address the creation of international cyberinfrastructure resources that deliver trusted components for atomistic calculations such as empirical potentials, pseudopotentials, basis sets, and atomic coordinates. Science rests on the concept of reproducibility and we will address the issue of linking calculation files and results directly with publications.
For more information: http://www.cnf.cornell.edu/cnf_fallworkshop2010.html
Contact Derek Stewart at stewart@cnf.cornell.edu or 607-255-2856

NNIN International Winter School in Bangalore, India
Jan. 3-15, 2011
The 3d annual NNIN International Winter School will take place in January 2011, held in cooperation with IISc Bangalore on the subject Science and Technology of Nanofabrication. Applications are due Sept. 7. Click through for more details. http://www.nnin.org/nnin_iwsg.html
For more information: http://www.nnin.org/nnin_iwsg.html
Contact Lynn Rathbun at rathbun@cnf.cornell.edu

7th Nano imprint workshop
April 27th-28th, 2010
The Microelectronics Research Center (MRC) at The University of Texas at Austin will hold a workshop on Step and Flash Nano-Imprint Lithography (S-FIL™). During the two hands-on sessions, the attendees will practice on the IMPRIO100 from Molecular Imprint Inc. and other state-of the-art equipments. For example Oxford RIE will be utilized to transfer imprints into substrate and Woollam ellipsometer will be used to measure the thickness of the different polymer films involved in the imprint fabrication process. A mold area of 1cm2 with intricate nano size features will be step and repeat over a wafer. Ultimately 70nm gratings will cover a large area (up yo 200mm2) in few hours.
For more information: http://www.mrc.utexas.edu/index.php/nnin/eventsworkshops
Contact Marylene Palard at marylene@mer.utexas.edu or 512 658 2668

Synergies inNanoscale Manufacturing and Research
January 28-29, 2010
The Synergies in Nanoscale Manufacturing and Research Workship is organized by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) and the Nantional Nanomanufacturing Network (NMN).
For more information: http://www.nnin.org/nnin_snmr10_event.html

NNIN REU Convocation
August 11-14, 2010
The NNIN REU Convocation will be held Aug. 11-14 at the University of Minnesota. This event brings together all the REU students from the 14 site NNIN REU program to present their results to their peers. The event will be webcast as well.
For more information: http://www.nano.umn.edu/nninreuconvocation2010/
Contact Rebecca Von Dissen at vondi001@umn.edu

Interdisciplinary Challenges beyond the Scaling of Moore's Law
Aug 2-4,2010
The NSF Workshop on “Interdisciplinary Challenges beyond the Scaling Limits of Moore's Law” will
explore the scientific issues and technological challenges to continued progress in information
technology, with the objective of identifying promising insights and directions that project solutions for electronics and computing in the decade of the 2020’s. The workshop will look beyond the physical and conceptual limits projected for current systems based on CMOS transistor technology and tried and true microprocessor architectures.
For more information: http://www.nnin.org/nnin_nsf_workshop_2010.html
Contact Rebecca Vliet at rlc12@cornell.edu or 607-254-4840