Throughout history, new technologies such as the printing press, steam
engine, mechanized agriculture, and more recently information technology
and biotechnology have transformed human society. The US Nanotechnological
Initiative (NNI) is a program designed to improve human society through
the application of a new technology with a similar potential.
Discovery Park is a Purdue University initiative designed to promote
science that creates jobs and improves the quality of life. What have
we learnt about the governing initiatives of this magnitude? In the
light of these initiatives, how do we marshall federal, state and
industry support? How do we promote curiosity-driven science that
leads to new technologies? How do we exploit synergies as historically
distinct technologies converge? How do we transition new advancements
from the lab to manufacturing? How do we enlist the best and the brightest
people, and how do we engage elements of the broader society as active
components of new
technologies?
A distinguished Panel will discuss these issues using the National
Nanotechnology Initiative as a case study. Discovery Park at Purdue
University with its Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurship Center, Bindley
Biosciences Center and the Birck Nanotechnology Center provides an
exciting venue in America’s heartland for this Panel. Discovery
Park houses major research, development and educational activities
in Nanotechnology funded by many federal and state agencies such as
NASA, DOD, NIH, the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund
and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The Panel will be chaired by Dr. Mihail C. Roco who is the Chair of
the Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology
(NSET), U.S. National Science and Technology Council and is Senior
Advisor for Nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation.
The Panel Discussion is directly followed by the Buildings for Advanced
Technology Workshop III (BAT III). The BAT III includes a discussion
on the results achieved and the lessons learnt in construction of
Nanotechnology facilities. It brings together building owners and
facilities managers from a prestigious list of national laboratories,
private industry and higher education institutions to share their
experience in achieving the needs of these technically demanding facilities.
The BAT III will also take place starting February 6-8 2006 at Purdue
University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Attendees and Speakers who
wish to attend the BAT III will get priority seating through both
events. Read
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