The Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences invites you to attend the Industrial Outreach Program (IOP) 2004 Workshop, Frontiers in Materials and Nanoscience: Innovation & Collaboration.

Researchers from our NSF-funded centers on Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC) and Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSEC), and members of Harvard's Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures (CIMS) will address the future directions of key areas.

Participants are encouraged to meet Harvard researchers and students, visit our state-of-the-art facilities, and discuss collaborative opportunities for research and development.

 
  Topics will include:  
  Flow in Porous Media  
  Microfluidics  
  Multiscale Mechanics of Thin Films and Interfaces  
  Nano-Bio Systems: Manipulation and Imaging  
  Novel Structures in Complex Fluids  
  Scanning Probe Microscopy  
  Soft Lithography and Assembly  
  Quantum Information Processing  
     
  Who Should Attend:  
  Scientists, engineers, and technical directors and managers from industry, government, and academia.  
 
Learn more about our NSF-funded research centers:

MRSEC
  NSEC
  CIMS
 
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Harvard fosters and supports collaborative research in areas including Multiscale Mechanics of Films and Interfaces, Engineering Materials & Techniques for Biological Studies at Cellular Scales, and Interface-Mediated Assembly of Soft Materials.
  The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) is a collaboration among universities (including Harvard, MIT, UCSB, and University of Tokyo) and government labs (including Oak Ridge and Sandia) that combines "top down" and "bottom up" approaches to Synthesis and Growth of Nanostructures, Imaging in Nanostructures, Spins and Charges in Nanostructures.   CIMS, partly funded by the NSF's National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NINN), supports the fabrication and study of "mesoscale" structures and phenomena that span the range between atomic and macroscopic systems, and whose properties are very different from those of macroscopic systems. Key areas of study include Soft Lithography and Quantum Computing