MEMO

To: Campus Communicators
From: Purdue News Service
Date: February 2, 2006

Subject: Discovery Lecture Series — Nanotech Conference journalists' panel

We would appreciate it if you could use your internal communication systems to distribute the following information:

Purdue is holding an exciting 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.

Final details of the journalists' panel that will kick off the conference are now available. The discussion, 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.

• Josh Wolfe, nanotechnology columnist for Forbes.

Two other formal panel discussions are set for the same day, one beginning at 3 p.m. and the second at 5:30 p.m. Leading nanotechnology experts from across the country will be on campus to provide the latest developments in this significant scientific arena.

Please encourage those in your departments to attend Monday's conference.

Here are links for more information about the conference:

Discovery Lecture Series registration

NNI at Five Years flyer

News release

News release

Nanotechnology summaries