CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:

7th Annual Conference on

FOUNDATIONS OF NANOSCIENCE:

SELF-ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURES AND DEVICES (FNANO10)

 

 

DATES of FNANO10: April 27 – 30, 2010

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
January 15, 2010

FNANO10 Announcement: [PDF] [TXT] [HTML]

FNANO10 Webpage:  http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/

 

 

CONFERENCE VENUE: The Conference will be at the Snowbird Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah. It is 20 miles from Salt Lake International Airport.

HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/FNANO/venue.html

We have negotiated the considerably reduced  FNANO Conference rates of $99.60/night for hotel rooms at the Snowbird Cliff Lodge, where the Conference Sessions are held. (Book Prior to March 1 to get reduced rates)

FNANO10 Conference Registration pages <to be posted>

(Registration will be open starting February 1, 2010, and the deadline for early registration is March 1, 2010.)

Registration for Contributing Speakers and Regular or Student Participants at http://FNANO10.cs.duke.edu/registration/direct.php   

Registration only for Track Chairs, Track Co-chairs, Invited Speakers, Keynote speakers, Conference Organizers or Assistants at http://FNANO10.cs.duke.edu/registration/indirect.php

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS: Supporting Organizations: to be announced

SPONSORING SOCIETY: International Society For Nananoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE).

 

PAPER and POSTER SUBMISSIONS: http://fnano10.cs.duke.edu/submit/

¯SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 15, 2010

¯SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: If you wish to present a talk or poster at FNANO10, you need to submit by January 15, 2010 an extended abstract of at least one page in PDF format. Even if your talk is invited, you still need to submit at least a one page abstract by this date.

¯SUBMISSION METHOD: Submissions are electronic via a Web interface at the above Paper and Poster Submission Website. Please make sure you have a browser that supports uploading via a web form.

 

Acceptance/Rejection DECISIONS: determined by February 15, 2010

 

DEADLINE for Uploading ACCEPTED PAPERS (for invited talks & accepted submitted papers and posters for publication in the Conference Proceedings): March 1, 2010. See below for more information on the Conference Proceedings.

 

 

FNANO10 Preliminary Schedule (to be posted February 15 2010):

 

CONFERENCE FORMAT: A combination of:

¤   invited and contributed talks, and

¤   posters and open discussion periods.

 

FNANO Conference Overview: This is a yearly conference on foundations of nanoscience, maintaining the highest scientific standards. Self-assembly is the central theme of the conference. Topics include self-assembled architectures and devices, at scales ranging from nano-scale to meso-scale. Methodologies include both experimental as well as theoretical approaches.  The conference spans many traditional disciplines including chemistry, biochemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and various engineering disciplines including MEMS.

The prior year's Conferences on Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO04, FNANO05, FNANO06, FNANO07, FNANO08, and FNANO09) had a significant impact on the emerging fields of Nanoscience and Self-assembly – they brought many of the leading nanoscientists and researchers working in a wide variety of areas of Self-assembly in the same place to present invited talks. This year's 7th Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO10) will have a mixture of both as invited talks by distinguished nanoscientists as well as contributed posters and open discussion periods to enhance attendee interaction with the goal of creating vibrant intellectual community in the area of self-assembly.  We are including a number of special tracks on topics of emerging interest to the community of self-assembly.

 

FNANO10 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

FNANO10 General Chair: John H. Reif <>, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC

FNANO10 Program Chair: Marya Lieberman <mlieberm@nd.edu>, Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

FNANO10 Program Committee: Track Chairs

Special Track on Synthetic Biology:

á  Track Chair: to be announced

Track on Fullerene Nanostructures:

¤   Track Chair: Jie Liu <j.liu@duke.edu>, Dept of Chemistry, Duke Univ, Durham, NC

Track on Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures:

¤   Track Chair: Nadrian Seeman <ncs1@feynman.acf.nyu.edu>, Dept of Chemistry, New York Univ, New York, NY

Track on Self-Assembled Surface Chemistry:

¤   Track Chair: Lloyd Smith <smith@chem.wisc.edu>, Dept of Chemistry, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Track on Viral Self-Assembly:

¤   Track Chair: Adam Zlotnick <adam-zlotnick@ouhsc.edu>, Adam Zlotnick <azlotnic@indiana.edu>, Dept of Biology, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN

Track on Self-Assembly of Peptide-Protein Nanostructures

¤   Track Chair: to be announced

Track on Nanoplasmonics & Nanophotovoltaics:

¤   Track Chair: Eray Aydil <aydil@tc.umn.edu>, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Track on Biomedical Nanotechnology:

¤   Track Chair: Thomas LaBean <thl@cs.duke.edu>, Dept of Computer Science, Duke Univ, Durham, NC

 

Track on Molecular Motors:

¤   Track Chair: Andrew Turberfield <a.turberfield@physics.ox.ac.uk>, Dept of Physics, Oxford Univ, Oxford, UK

Track on Self-assembled Computer Circuit and System Architectures:

¤   Track Chair: Chris Dwyer <dwyer@ece.duke.edu>, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke Univ, Durham, NC

Track on Self-Assembly Across Scales:

¤   Track Chair: Karl Bohringer <karl@ee.washington.edu>, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA

Track on Top-down Meets Bottom-up:

¤   Description: Talks & posters in this track combine bottom-up self-assembly with top-down methods such as lithography or an external patterning force (e.g., electromagnetic field or chemical gradient).

¤   Track Chair: Mark Stoykovich <mark.stoykovich@colorado.edu>, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, CO

Track on Computational Tools for Self-assembly:

¤   Track Chair: Mark Sims <mark@nanorex.com>, Nanorex, Inc., Bloomfield Hill, MI

Track on Principles and Theory of Self-Assembly:

¤   Track Chair: Paul W.K. Rothemund <pwkr@dna.caltech.edu>, Dept of Computer Science and Dept of Computation and Neural System, Caltech, Pasadena, CA

PROGRAM TRACK CHAIRS RESPONSIBILITIES: Paper solicitation, Paper refereeing and acceptance decisions for papers in their track (in consultation with the Program Chair).

 

FNANO04, FNANO05, FNANO06, and FNANO07 Proceedings are available for purchase at: http://sciencetechnica.com/.

 

MORE ON HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS:

CUT-OFF DATE for Snowbird Hotel Room Reduced Rates: March 1, 2010. We have negotiated the considerably reduced  FNANO Conference rates of $99.60/night for hotel rooms at the Snowbird Cliff Lodge, where the Conference Sessions are held. There may also be rooms at similar rates at the Lodge at Snowbird (8 minutes walk from Snowbird Cliff Lodge). The reduced rates are generally available for the dates April 24 - May 2, 2010 to allow for an extended stay. Reservations with these discount rates are available for booking by calling 800-453-3000 or 801-742-2222. Be sure to specify that you attending the "Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO)" Conference to ensure that you are not charged a higher rate. The rooms at either of these hotels are quite spacious and comfortable. Book early to get the reduced rates. Space is limited; rooms may NOT be available after March 1, 2010.

 

FACILITIES:

The facilities at Snowbird include multiple restaurants, swimming pools & hot tubs, athletic spa, skating rink and world-class skiing. (In addition to the main ski slopes, there is also a beginner's skiing slope that is free at night. There is also free all day skiing for any children with a parent that purchases a ski ticket.)

 

TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM AIRPORT: A Canyon Transport van to Snowbird from the Airport baggage claim area costs $64 roundtrip (if prebooked for regularly scheduled times) and takes 40 minutes. You can make reservations at 801-742-340 or (800) 255-1841. The road up though Little Cottonwood Canyon to Snowbird is rarely closed for snow removal, but this can occur very occasionally in the evening during a very large snowstorm, and also rarely for a period in the morning afterward. Although these events are unlikely, just in case, we strongly suggest you arrive early to avoid possible problems and to enjoy the beautiful surroundings.