Special Sessions/Workshops
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IP From A to Z
• ASTM E-42 Workshop
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Biomaterial Interfaces
Division Plenary Session
• AVS/
AIP Industry Forum
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NNT'09
• Post
Deadline Session
IP From
A to Z
Sunday, November 8, 2009, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Room A8, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
-Charles C. Valauskas,
J.D., LL.M., Valauskas
& Pine LLC
-Lisa Kuuttila,
President & CEO, STC.UNM
(University of New Mexico arm for innovation
management and commercial development)
This session will provide insight into the
intellectual property process, with a primary
focus on patents. This session will give you
some basic tools by which you can identify
valuable property rights, direct further
development efforts so that the scope of the
rights can be broadened and increased value
produced, and provide strategic input so that
copyright and trademark protection can be
integrated with patent protection to achieve an
overall cost effective synergy for your team.
What can be patented, what is the process, and
how the patent office currently operates will be
covered. In addition, commercialization of
intellectual property will be addressed,
including licensing intellectual property as
well as technology-based start-up companies,
which rely on intellectual property for a
proprietary position.
ASTM E-42 Workshop on Surface
Analysis
Sunday, November 8, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
Optimizing Information Available from X-ray
Photoelectron Spectroscopy Analysis
Steve Golledge, University of Oregon
Salon II, San Jose Marriott Hotel
Abstract
Based
on citations in the literature XPS has become
the most highly used surface chemical analysis
tool. As the use of the method increases, the
expertise of the average user decreases. In many
cases data reported in the literature is not as
fully analyzed and processed as possible and the
users have not extracted the full amount of
information possible. In some circumstances the
data analysis is actually misleading or wrong.
The purpose of this workshop is to examine some
of the methods applied by a variety of XPS
experts to extract critical information for
specific samples including sample preparation
and data analysis.
Topics discussed will include:
sample preparation,data collection modes, and
methods for data analysis. Issues related to the
analysis of particular types of materials
including layeredstructures, organic overlayers,
and contaminated samples will be discussed.
Biomaterial Interfaces
Division Plenary Session
Sunday, November 8, 2009, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Room K, San Jose McEnery Convention Center,
followed by a reception
In the tradition of the Biomaterial Interfaces
Division (BID), a broad technical program has
been established that is focused on progress in
biointerface science and engineering and that
brings together an interdisciplinary group of
experts that work at the intersection of
biosurface and interface science, the
nanosciences, and biomedical engineering. The
meeting will commence on Sunday afternoon with
the Biomaterials Plenary (BP). With the theme
Nanoparticles: Advances in Fabrication,
Characterization and Regulatory Challenges,
this year’s plenary aims to bring the AVS
community together to explore the challenges
involved with the development and exploitation
of nanoparticles for biological applications.
The three plenary speakers will address a range
of interconnected themes. Professor Joseph
DeSimone (UNC-Chapel Hill) will discuss new,
exciting strategies for the fabrication of
nanoparticles that can be used for delivery of
detection, imaging and therapeutic agents for
the battle against human disease. Professor
Sharon Glotzer (Univ. of Michigan) will
demonstrate how computer simulations can be used
to discover the fundamental principles that
control biological assembly and enable the use
of bio-mimicry to nano-engineer materials that
are self-assembling, self-sensing, and
self-regulating. In the third plenary lecture,
Professor Andre Nel (UCLA) will explore
the emerging field of nanotoxicology, including
nanomaterial properties that may lead to
toxicity and current trends in nanomaterial
safety testing. The event will close with the
opportunity for further discussions at our
traditional industry sponsored Plenary
Reception. The Nanoparticle theme, initiated in
the Biomaterials Plenary, will continue as a
thread though the week with sessions on
Nanoparticles and Self Assembly being held
in collaboration with the Nanometer–Scale
Science and Technology Division (NS).
8th
International Conference on Nanoimprint and
Nanoprint Technology (NNT)
Wednesday-Friday, November 11-13, 2009
Room J1-4, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
The NNT conference is delighted
to renew its association with AVS and is
collocating its 2009 meeting in San Jose this
November. There is a strong affinity with the
technical interests of AVS and its members,
especially in the fields of nanostructures,
material properties at the nanoscale and
interfaces. NNT ’09 conference will be the 8th
in this series of international meetings. The
most recent meetings took place in Kyoto, Japan
(NNT ’08), Paris, France (NNT ’07) and San
Francisco, CA (NNT ’06) where it was collocated
with AVS-53. NNT ’09 is sponsored by the NSTD of
AVS and will offer a forum to present the latest
scientific and technology results in NNT. Topics
include:
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Nanoimprint and Nanoprint
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Tooling and Masks
(Templates)
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Materials and Processes
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Soft-lithography and Dip-pen
lithography
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Applications in Electronics,
Optoelectronics, Magnetics, Materials,
Self-assembly, Chemistry, Biology, and
Pharmaceuticals
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NNT Equipment Exhibit
adjacent to the NNT meeting rooms
Leading groups from across the
globe will discuss the state of the art in NNT
and emerging applications. In addition, a focal
point of the conference is enhancing the link
between scientists, technologists and the
developing NNT industry. More information on the
program for NNT ’09 as well as details of
previous meetings can be found at
www.nntconf.org.
Photovoltaics and Nanotechnology: Applied
Physics Networking Forum and Reception
Sunday, November 8, 2009 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Room J2, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
AVS and the American Institute
of Physics (AIP) Corporate Associates will
co-host an applied physics networking forum on
photovoltaics and nanotechnology. This two-hour
forum will feature two invited speakers on the
topic and an open discussion, followed by a
networking reception. AVS registrants, members
of the Bay area business community and local
physics faculty are invited to participate.
Local undergraduates will share their research
in a mini poster session during the reception.
AVS and AIP have designed this
forum to facilitate interactions among
physicists working on, or interested in,
industrial applications of physics research,
with the ultimate goal of helping participants
forge relationships and explore ways to
collaborate on future initiatives.
See
www.aip.org/ca/events.html for more details.
AVS Post Deadline Discovery
Session
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 7:45 p.m.
Willow Glen I-III,
San Jose Marriott Hotel
The Surface Science Division
will host an evening session for off-the-record
discussion of post-deadline discoveries and
controversial issues in all fields relevant to
AVS membership. Submissions from all division
members are welcome that address surfaces,
interfaces, films, nanometer-scale phenomena,
emerging technologies or that report promising
technique innovations. This is the forum
to stimulate your colleagues with provocative
hypotheses and preliminary results. All
Symposium participants are invited to attend
this informal session, which will be accompanied
by libations and munchies. The winner of the
2009 Morton M. Traum Surface Science Student
Award will be announced at the beginning of the
session.
Abstracts of approximately
2,500 characters are solicited for either (1) an
individual 15 minute oral presentation, or (2)
two coordinated 10 minute presentations by
persons with opposing viewpoints of a
controversial scientific issue. Abstracts must
be received electronically by Friday, September
4, 2009. Notification of acceptance/rejection
will be made soon thereafter. Submit abstracts
to:
chabal@utdallas.edu (Yves Chabal, phone:
972-883-5751).
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