KTH Celebrates 175th Anniversary with Symposium on Nanostructured Materials
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KTH Celebrates 175th Anniversary with Symposium on Nanostructured Materials The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, is celebrating its 175th anniversary in 2002. As part of the commemoration of its founding, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering arranged a two-day symposium on April 11–12, 2002, on the subject of nanostructured materials, focusing on contributions by women in materials sciences. The organizers, K.V. Rao, chair of the department; Malin Selleby, program manager of the department’s Center for Computational Thermodynamics; Lyubov M. Belova, postdoctoral fellow in the department; and Börje Johansson, visiting from Uppsala University, Sweden, invited 30 materials scientists in the field—mostly women—from Europe and the United States. The speakers provided a broad overview of current research in the field. Talks ranged from nanotube spectroscopy (Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) to molecular-dynamics simulation (Helena Van Swygenhoven, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland) to magnetic nanoparticles (Sara A. Majetich, Carnegie Mellon University, USA). Presentations included implications of nanomaterials research in biotechnology (Viola Vogel, University of Washington, USA) and the environment (Inger Odnevall Wallinder, KTH) and interdisciplinary connections such as the role of theoretical and computational chemistry in materials science (Kersti Hermansson, Uppsala University). In addition to the technical presentations, the organizers invited a group of high school seniors from the Engelskaskolan Söder (the English School South) to attend an afternoon of talks. The scientists discussed opportunities in the materials area in industry, academia, and government institutions, as well as provided presentations including “puzzles and fun with nano” (Merrilea J. Mayo, U.S. National Academies) and “fractals around us”
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering celebrated the 175th anniversary of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, with a symposium on Nanostructured Materials: Focusing on Contributions by Women in Materials Sciences. Two of the co-organizers are shown holding the conference poster with 10 of the 30 invited speakers: (front, left to right): co-organizer Lyubov M. Belova (KTH), Viola Vogel (University of Washington, USA), and Amita Gupta (KTH); (holding the poster, left to right): Sara A. Majetich (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Caroline A. Ross (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Elena Obraztsova (Russian Academy of Sciences), and Merrilea J. Mayo (U.S. National Academies); (back row, left to right): Julia Weertman (Northwestern University, USA), Marija Kosec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), co-organizer K.V. Rao (KTH), and Kris A. Bertness (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA).
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