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The IEEE Nanotechnology News September 2003 Volume 1, Number 3
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The IEEE Nanotechnology News. News and information
for the worldwide Nanotechnology community.
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Editorial
(1) Hello IEEE Nanotechnology Community,
I would like to use this space to address the issue of graduate student recruiting.
Technical Highlights
(2)Newsletter on activities of the IEEE technical committee on Spintronics
Conference Announcements
(3) See our new list of nanotechnology conferences.
People
(4) Your submissions welcomed
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-------------------------- Editorial --------------------------
(1) Hello IEEE Nanotechnology Community,
I would like to use this space to address the issue of graduate student recruiting.
As you know, academic life is driven by the calendar. Each year the academic
calendar brings another round of teaching, a new group of students, etc.
Included in this is the yearly ritual of reviewing graduate student applications
and making offers by early Spring. It is in the coming few months that college
Seniors are deciding what to do with their careers. Those with the best
academic records may or may not choose to apply to graduate schools, a
decision based largely on what they have been told about their options.
Many of the best students have little concept of what graduate school is
about. The IEEE Nanotechnology community will become especially sensitive
to issues of graduate student recruiting as funding rises and programs become
more sophisticated. One solution to recruiting is a renewed effort to reach our
undergraduates so that they will be better informed about graduate school as
an interim career option. At Notre Dame we have started a national program,
called NCRECES (for National Coalition for Recruiting Electrical and Computer
Engineering Students), that will help interested parties to more-efficiently recruit
undergraduates. The program is designed to help busy faculty to easily include
recruiting along with their normally scheduled travel plans. I urge you to check
out the NCRECES web site (http://ncreces.nd.edu) and consider registering. As
nanotechnology research builds up steam, the university research mill will come
to depend critically on improvements made in the quality of the graduate students
that we can attract to our programs.
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(2) Newsletter on activities of the IEEE technical committee on Spintronics
M. Cahay Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
814 Rhodes Hall, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221
In the Fall of 2002, the IEEE Technical committee on Spintronics was formed
and is currently chaired by Supriyo Bandyopadhyay from Virginia Commonwealth
University.
This committee took an active part in the IEEE-Nano2003 meeting held
August 12-14,2003 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA
(for more details on the meeting, see the website
http://ieeenano2003.arc.nasa.gov/index.html).On Monday August 11, a short
course on Spintronics and Quantum Information Processing was given by
Prof. Supriyo Bandyopadhyay (Virginia Commonwealth University) and
Prof. Marc Cahay (University of Cincinnati). The shortcourse had 12 participants,
mostly from industries, with several attendants from outside the US who were
attending the general meeting.
A session on Spintronics and Nanomagnetics was organized with 16 oral
presentations on Monday August 12, 2003 and 3 additional poster papers
presented during the general poster session held on Tuesday evening. Three
invited papers of 30 minutes duration each set the tone of the meeting. These
invited talks summarized state-of-the-art research on giant magnetoresistance
based magnetic recording heads, magnetic properties of Co-doped TiO2 anatase,
and experimental and theoretical investigations of artificial atoms and molecules
for spintronic applications. The contributed papers were of minutes duration each
and covered topics ranging from theoretical investigation of spin transport (ballistic
and diffusive regime) in two-dimensional electron gas and quantum wires,
simulations of laterally and vertically coupled semiconductor dots with and without
an external magnetic field, spin valve sensors, high-density arrays of magnetic
elements, magneto-optical properties of nanostructures, and experimental
ferromagnetic resonance curves of quasiperiodic films.
Overall, both the short course and session were well received. The IEEE Technical
committee on Spintronics intends to organize future sessions at IEEE meetings and
other meetings that have NTC technical co-sponsorship.
------------ Conference Announcements -------------
(3) With the recent proliferation of nanotechnology research, the number of related
conferences has skyrocketed. In order to help our readers, we have compiled a
list of conferences from the Internet that seems be related to the interest of our
community. We hope you find this list useful.
Special note: see the Fourth IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology next August.
Conference list