NanoSpain: 1st NanoSpain Workshop 
Last Updated: July 8, 2009 

Funded by:

MCyT

Donostia International Physics Center
Red Española de Nanotecnología (NANOSPAIN)

Organised by:
Phantoms Foundation
CSIC
UPV
Donostia International Physics Center

The conference was held in San Sebastian, at the "Miramar Palace"
Map of San Sebastian


Full presentations are now available for download (pdf format) .


REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS: 207


Invited Speakers
Last Name
Name
Organisation
Country
Topic
Baptist
Robert
DRFMC (CEA)
France
Infrastructure
Barth
Johannes
Institut de Physique des Nanostructures (EPFL)
Switzerland
Nanochemistry
Brugger
Juergen
EPFL
Switzerland
NEMS/MEMS
Cingolani
Roberto
Lecce University
Italy
Nanomaterials
Myles
Mervin
Bristol University
UK
SPM
Onoa
Bibiana
Dupont
USA
Nanobiology
Yaliraki
Sophia
Imperial College
UK
Simulation at the Nanoscale
Horikoshi
Yoshiji
Semiconductor Electronics Dept., Waseda University, Tokyo
Japan
Nanoelectronics
European Commission Speakers
Last Name
Name
Organisation
Country
Topic
Van-Hove
Patrick
EC (IST/FET)
Belgium
Research Policy
Viviente
Jose Luis
EC(NMP)
Belgium
Research Policy


During the last two decades, a revolutionary scientific new age, based on the capacity to observe, characterize, manipulate and organize matter in the nanometric scale, is appearing. In this scale, physics, chemistry, materials science, computational theory, and engineering converge towards the same theoretical principles and experimental findings that are basically governed by the laws of the Quantum Mechanics. Nanotechnology involves these interdisciplinary knowledge areas and methodologies in order to study, manufacture and characterize functional structures with dimensions of tens of nanometers.

The three year-old NanoSpain network aims to agglutinate and coordinate the efforts made in the field of the Nanotechnology by Spanish groups from universities, research institutes and companies. Moreover, this network has tried to help the government institutions in defining potential actions and plans referring to this area. Actually the NanoSpain network, comprising 116 Spanish groups with near 400 researchers in total, is one of the widest Spanish scientific networks.

As a direct and most effective way to enhance the interaction between our network members, a first meeting of NanoSpain was organised. Its objective was to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge and promote interdisciplinary discussions among the different NanoSpain groups. In order to organise the various sessions and to select contributions , the meeting was structured in the following thematic lines, but interactions among them were promoted:

1. MEMS/NEMS
2. Nanobiology
3. Nanomaterials
4. Nanochemistry
5. Nanoelectronics
6. Scanning Probe Microscopies (SPM)
7. Scientific infrastructures and Scientific Parks
8. Simulation in the nanoscale

Another objective of this meeting was to permit considering the situation of Nanotechnology in our country, as well as in reaching conclusions concerning the future of the NanoSpain network, in order to guarantee its continuity by means of concrete proposals and a renovation of its structures.


This event received funding from the "Donostia International Physics Center" (DIPC) and the Spanish Ministry of Science through the following two networks:

"Red Española de Nanotecnología (NANOSPAIN)"
Funding Agency: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología - Acción Especial (MAT2001-5411-E)

"Red Nacional de Investigadores en Nanociencias: Metodologías Experimentales y Teóricas (NANOCIENCIA)".
Funding Agency: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología - Acción Especial PGC2000-2586-E

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