"ASTATPHYS-MEX-2003 and Advanced Materials Workshop, Puerto Vallarte, Mexico, August 24 - 29, 2003"
The Applied Statistical Physics Conference (ASTATPHYS-MEX-2003) will take place from August 24 - 29, 2003 at the Hotel Krystal in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It will be subdivided into seven parallel symposia.
The topics are:
1) Complex Fluids: Equilibrium and Dynamics 2) Nanobiotechnology 3) Nanoscience 4) Quantum Engineering 5) Catalysts and nanoporous material prepared by self-assembly 6) Petroleomics: From Petroleum Composition to Commercial Realty 7) Materials Characterization Techniques and Nanotechnology
Each symposia will include a keynote lecture and several invited lectures. Approximately forty contributed papers will be submitted to each of the symposia, and in addition, several hundred papers will be submitted for poster presentations.
Broader Impacts: The ASTATPHYS-MEX-2003 Conference will focus on a number of exciting and timely topics in Molecular Engineering. More specifically, the areas that will be addressed at the meeting include nano-tubes and fullerenes, magnetic nano-structures, nano-circuits and nanolithography, supramolecular chemistry and materials, polymers, gene-delivery, self-assembly, confined complex fluids, ionic channels, dynamics of confined fluids, phase transitions and layered materials and molecular design of catalysts (and nano-catalysis). These are all timely and highly visible areas of research. By virtue of taking place in Mexico, the meeting will attract a considerable number of Latin American and European researchers. The size, structure, and attendant composition are likely to foster increased interactions between scientists and engineers from around the world in the general areas of nanotechnology, molecular engineering, and statistical physics.
