Media AdvisoryTo: JournalistsFrom: Purdue News Service Date: February 3, 2006 Subject: Nanotechnology conference on February 6
Purdue is holding a national conference on nanotechnology as part of its inaugural Discovery Lecture Series program, "Transforming Society through Emerging Technologies: The National Nanotechnology Initiative at Five Years," on Feb. 6-8. Purdue News Service will have downloadable audio clips and photographs of the Monday (Feb. 6) event at its Web site. Video B-roll related to nanotechnology and the conference also will be available. An audio version of the conference, captured in an MP3 format, will be available Tuesday (Feb. 7) at: • http://web.e-enterprise.purdue.edu/wps/portal • http://www.purdue.edu/dp/dls/ A journalists' panel, titled "Giant Ideas for Nano's Future," begins at 1:30 p.m. Monday (Feb. 6) in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse and will include: Candace Stuart, editor-in-chief of Small Times; Samuel Moore, senior associate editor of IEEE Spectrum; and Josh Wolfe, nanotechnology columnist for Forbes. Two other formal panel discussions are set for the same day, one beginning at 3 p.m. featuring Mihail "Mike" Roco, chairman of the U.S. National Science and Technology Council's subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology, and the second at 5:30 p.m. Leading nanotechnology experts from across the country will be on campus, including George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association, and Vivian Well, director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Here are links for more information about the conference:
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