The eighth
Forum on nanotechnology for sustainability between the United States and Korea, will be held on April 4th
& 5th, 2011 at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the
birthplace of nanotechnology as testified by former President Clinton's address
and the landmark paper by Richard P. Feynman.
During the past nine years, the United States and
Korea have been supporting nanotechnology as a priority research area. The
delegates at the 5th
meeting of the U.S.-Korea Joint Committee on
Scientific and Technological Cooperation (held on October 30th
&
31st, 2002 in Seoul, Korea) agreed that the establishment of
U.S.-Korea Forums on Nanotechnology would be beneficial to enhance research
collaboration in the field of nanotechnology among scientists and engineers
from both countries. With this mission, we established the first U.S.-Korea
Forum on Nanotechnology, via National Science Foundation (NSF) funding, on
October 14th-18th
of 2003. As the Korean counterpart to
NSF, participation was overseen and funded by the Ministry of Education,
Science and Technology (MEST). The first Forum was held in Seoul in 2003 and dealt with various topics in nanotechnology. Since then, seven annual Forums have been organized alternatively in
U.S. and Korea covering a broad spectrum of emerging nanotechnology related
areas and have established a highly beneficial partnership between both
countries.
Nanotechnology
offers solutions for major issues in global ecology covering water
shortage, climate mitigation, and sustainable use of other natural resources.
This eighth Forum is a timely effort to further
provide a common platform for scientists and engineers from both countries to accommodate urgent
technology contributions in nanotechnology for
sustainability.
Our Forum consists of two days. On the first day, there will be three keynote speeches from Mihail
C. Roco (NSF), Harry Atwater (Caltech), and Young Moo Lee (Hanyang University,
Korea), followed by oral overview
presentations from 23 world renowned scientists (15 U.S. and 8 from Korea)
and poster presentations from early-career participants. The second day will consist of structured discussions
to identify opportunities and research directions for fruitful
implementation of nanoscience and technology for the sustainability of future
generations.
This Forum will
actively promote
the exchange of research, education, and policy between the two countries in
the emerging
area of nanotechnology for sustainability. The Forum promises to have a huge impact in nanoscience, in
addition to strengthening achievements and assessing
the progress on recommendations made
during the previous seven Forums, while also promoting exchange of young scientists
between the two countries. Furthermore, it will boost the dynamic
partnership between industry, government,
and academia leading to a huge contribution to society and global education in a broader sense. The
Forum proceedings and findings will be available
on Carnegie Mellon¡¯s website for a
broad audience in addition to a special
issue of Journal of Nanoparticle Research
with selected contributions for extensive outreach to the scientific community
April 4, 2011
Co-organizers,
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