Support for student travel to 55th International Conference on Electron Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, Proposal 1137067
This project, funded at $10,000, will help support the travel of 20 graduate students, from universities around the USA, to attend the 55 th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, 2011, to be held at the J. W. Marriott Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 31 to June 3, 2011. In the fields of nanofabrication, electron and ion-beam lithographies, photon and imprint lithographies, particle-beam optics, and forefront applications of nanofabrication, this conference is preeminent. The requested travel aid will enable students to present their research to a high level international scientific community. They will observe how scientists and engineers exchange innovative ideas and other information at conferences, and they?ll hear firsthand presentations of up-to-date research results in nanotechnology.
Learning how a technical conference serves as a venue for conveying information to other is an important element of a student?s education. Also important is leaning how to present, in a cogent and understandable way, the results of one?s research. The requested support will help to accomplish these ends. At the conference, students will make important personal contacts and learn of employment opportunities. At a special breakfast for the funded students, the conference organizers will discuss optimal techniques for presenting scientific information and how the conference program is put together.
This is the premier international conference on nanofabrication. Learning how a technical conference serves as a venue for conveying information to other is an important element of a student’s education. Also important is leaning how to present, in a cogent and understandable way, the results of one’s research. The NSF support helped to accomplish these ends. The $10,000 from NSF helped to support travel by 20 students at $500 each. Each of these students was an author or coauthor on a technical presentation. After the conference, students and their advisors prepared journal articles for submission to the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology. Thes submitted articles were reviewed by independent judges and if the quality was appropriate they were published in the Nov/Dec issue of the journal A special session was held on Tuesday evening of the conference to discuss the proper method of making conference presentations. At the conference, students had the opportunity to make important personal contacts and learn of employment opportunities. In a special student breakfast, held on Friday morning, the conference organizers described to the students how the conference program is put together and how papers are selected for oral or poster presentation.
