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"Small Wonders" - Scenes from NSF's Nanotechnology
Symposium
All photos: Peter West/National Science Foundation
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Participants
at NSF's "Small Wonders" nanotechnology
symposium fill the auditorium at the Ronald
Reagan Building in Washington, DC. |
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In opening
remarks, NSF Director Rita R. Colwell
talks about the promise of nanoscale science
and engineering research. |
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Keynote
speaker, Dr. Richard E. Smalley, describes
the "wet/dry" frontier of nanotechnology. |
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Speakers
at a morning panel, "... From Materials
to Medicine." |
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Karl Hess,
of the University of Illinois, makes a
presentation during the session "Devices,
Instrumentation, and Electronics." |
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Participants in the closing
panel discussion: "Issues & Implications
of Nanotechnology for Society. (From left
to right: moderator Joseph Bordogna, NSF;
Horst Störmer, Nobel Laureate, Columbia
University, Lucent Technologies; Richard
Smalley, Nobel Laureate, Rice University;
Arunava Majumdar, University of California,
Berkeley; Robert Westervelt, Harvard University;
and Samuel Stupp, Northwestern University.)
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The exhibit
hall outside of the amphitheater during
a break in the program.
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A camera
crew tapes a demonstration of Digital
Instruments-Veeco Metrology Group's "NanoMan",
a system enabling manipulation of nano-scale
objects.
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