The symposium is intended to bring together scientists from Montana and Japan working in various scientific fields, and to introduce interested faculty to possibilities for joint research and collaboration both on regional and international levels. Along with discussion of current research in the rapidly growing field of nano-technology and its possible applications in biology, pharmaceutical science, chemical engineering and physics, other scientific areas (not directly related to nano-science) are also going to be presented in the talks and poster contributions.
The symposium will consist of two parts. The first part will take place on the evening of Wednesday, September 29, 2004. Professor Toru Maekawa, Director of the Bio-Nano Electronics Research Center at Toyo University will present a one-hour lecture on the formation and milestones of the Center. This talk will be a public presentation accessible to a wide audience and held in a large auditorium on The University of Montana campus.
The second part will take place on Thursday, September 30, 2004. It will consist of a series of ten 30-minute presentations from Toyo and The University of Montana, as well as from regional participants. A poster session will follow.
The symposium will be held in the University Center (3rd floor) at The University of Montana, Missoula Campus.
Registration is free. To register for the symposium, complete the registration form at the web site:
https://www.umt.edu/ce/secure/nanotech/
The registration deadline is September 1, 2004 . For registration questions or to register by telephone, contact Clare Kelly, Continuing Education, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, (406) 243-4626, or e-mail: clare.kelly@umontana.edu.
You are invited to make a poster presentation at the symposium. Please submit abstracts of your poster presentation to Leonid Kalachev via e-mail at the address: kalachev@mso.umt.edu.
On the evening of Wednesday, September 29, 2004 Professor Toru Maekawa, Director of the Bio-Nano Electronics Research Center, Toyo University, will present a one-hour lecture entitled (in conjunction with the President's Lecture Series):
Bio-Nano Science and Technology
On Thursday, September 30, 2004 a series of ten 30-minute talks by faculty from Toyo University, The University of Montana and Montana State University will be presented.
The list of speakers (in alphabetical order) and topics of presentations:
Richard Bridges (UM), The Ins and Outs of Glutamate Transport.
Jerry Bromeshenk (UM), Biological, Chemical, and Physical Materials with Unique Electron Transfer Properties.
Trevor Douglas (MSU), Viruses and Protein Cage Architectures as Nano-Materials.
Richard Field (UM), Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction.
Tatsuro Hanajiri (Toyo), Development of Nano-Electronic Devices .
Leonid Kalachev (UM), Modeling Heterogeneous Bio-Switches.
Toru Maekawa (Toyo), Self-Organization in Nano/Micro systems.
Ed Rosenberg (UM), Supra-Molecular Materials for Metal Recovery.
Toru Toyabe (Toyo), Quantum Mechanical Device Simulation.
Yasuhiko Yoshida (Toyo), Development of Micro-Bio Sensors and Devices ; and the second talk: Amazing Creatures: Extremophiles.
The poster session will be held in the afternoon.
Please relate this information to all interested faculty in your department.
All the correspondence related to scientific program, symposium presentations, and poster session should be addressed to:
Leonid Kalachev
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
Phone: 1.406.243.4373
FAX: 1.406.243.2674
Email: kalachev@mso.umt.edu
Leonid Kalachev and William Derrick , UM-Toyo symposium organizers
International Programs
International Center
Phone:+ 1 406 243 2288
Fax:+ 1 406 243 6194