U.S.-Chile Workshop on Surface Science and Nanophysics; Pucon, Chile, December 2003

Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick NJ

Investigators

Abstract

0329636 Gustafsson This U.S.-Chile award will support Drs. Torgny Gustafsson and Robert A. Bartynski, Rutgers University, in organizing a workshop on surface science and nanophysics with Dr. Patricio Haberle, Universidad Technico Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile. The workshop will be held in conjunction with XI Congreso Latin Americano de Ciencias de Superficies y sus Applicaciones (CLACSA) in Pucon, Chile in December 2003. CLACSA has been a focal point for scientists in Latin America who work in surface science and nanophysics related fields and has been held since the early 1980's every second or third year. It offers a forum for these researchers to present results and to interact, providing a meaningful venue for collaboration between the nano- and surface science communities. Because this meeting is so large (as many as 400 attendees), this focused and smaller workshop, structured as a satellite to the larger conference, will provide a more effective and efficient means to foster collaboration between Latin American scientists and those from the U.S.