This award, in the amount $10,000, is to enable students to attend The 56th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, 2012, to be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii, May 29 to June 1, 2012. 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 first-hand presentations of up-todate 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 student breakfast, the conference organizers will describe to the students optimal techniques for presenting scientific information and how the conference program is put together.
Project outcome report The NSF grant supported travel by graduate students to the 56th International Conference on Electron Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN), held, May 29 to to June 1, 2012 at the Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii. EIPBN 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 combined with $45,100 from other sources, including the conference reserves, helped to support travel by 57 students. 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. These submitted articles were reviewed by independent judges and if the quality was appropriate they were published in the Nov/Dec issue of the journal. 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. This breakfast also provided an opportunity for students to ask questions of the conference organizers and to make suggestions for future conferences.
