2008 ICAM-I2CAM Annual Conference

We invite you to attend the 2008 ICAM/I2CAM Annual Conference, which will be held from January 14-17 at the La Fonda hotel in Santa Fe, NM. As was the case last year, the major focus of the meeting will be on ICAM science: what is new and exciting, including a discussion of promising future scientific and outreach directions for ICAM and I2CAM.

To that end, as you will see from the preliminary program, in addition to reports on the status of ICAM and I2CAM, and the meetings of the Fellow Committee of Selection and the Science Steering Committee, we plan six "Grand Challenge " talks plus 2 two-hour parallel sessions in which participants are encouraged to discuss their recent results in correlated matter and biological physics, and three poster sessions that will showcase the research being carried out by the ICAM, and I2CAM Fellows as well as invited poster presentations by Los Alamos Postdoctoral Fellows.  Our invited speakers include (*-confirmed):

            Peter Littlewood, Cambridge U., Keynote*
            George Whitesides, Harvard U,  Keynote (with Santa Fe Institute)
            Greg Boebinger, National High Magnetic Field Lab, Grand Challenge*
            Seamus Davis, Cornell University, Grand Challenge*
            Ludwik Leibler, ESPCI, Grand Challenge*
            Steve Kowalczykowski, UC Davis, Grand Challenge*
            Hilal Lashuel, EPFL, Grand Challenge*

The meeting will also overlap with a critical US National Science Foundation site visit for our International ICAM International Materials Institute award.  Pending the outcome of this visit we will know if I2CAM will be recommended for renewal competition.  For those of you who arrive in particular on Monday, there will be a chance to interact with the site visit team.  We will be inviting many past I2CAM workshop organizers, participants, junior exchange awardees, and junior travel awardees to participate. 

We very much look forward to seeing you in Santa Fe.

Best regards,

Daniel Cox and David Pines, ICAM-I2CAM Co-directors

 

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