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2003 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show
To be held in San Francisco

CAMBRIDGE - April 23, 2002 - The 2003 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Nanotech 2003, will be held at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco hotel in San Francisco, California, February 23-27, 2003.

The 2003 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Nanotech 2003, is the largest Nanotechnology conference in the world providing collaborative direction to the growing community of nano science, technology and business. The Nanotech conference and trade show is the singular event where these emerging technologies first reach reality. Nanotech 2003 provides a full four-day conference program with keynotes, workshops and breakout sessions.

The conference is organized into four primary modules in the Nanotechnology, MicroTechnology, BioTechnology and NanoBusiness fields. The Nanotech 2003 umbrella event will additionally host the 6^th International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems (MSM), the 3^rd International Conference on Computational Nanoscience and Technology (ICCN), and the 2003 Workshop on Compact Modeling (WCM).

Keynote presentations include Phaedon Avouris, IBM Research Division, David Awschalom, UC Santa Barbara, Christian Joachim, CEMES-CNRS, Albert P. Pisano, University of California at Berkeley, George Robillard, Founder and Director of BioMade Corporation, Groningen, Netherlands, Sandeep Malhotra, Vice President of Nanotechnology, Ardesta, Eiichi Maruyama, RIKEN Frontier Research System, Japan, and Robert Rudd, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The conference technical program is centered around special session organized by Mihail Roco, National Science Foundation, Atul Parikh, UC-Davis, Kurt Krause, University of Houston, Srinivas Iyer, Los Alamos National Laboratory Narayan Aluru, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Steffen Hardt, Institute of Microtechnology, Mainz, Germany, Jose Olivares, Los Alamos National Laboratory Bob Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center, Dr Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood, Accelrys, Nick Quirke, Imperial College London, UK, Andreas Hieke, Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc., Stephen J. Paddison, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alex Demkov, Motorola, David Ferry, Arizona State University, Elena Gaura, Coventry University, U.K., Michael Kraft, Southampton University, U.K. and Wenjing Ye and John Pelesko, Georgia Institute of Technology

Nanotech 2003 is organized in collaboration with and or with sponsorship of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ASME Nanotechnology Institute, TIMA-CMP, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, UC-Davis, Department of Applied Science, Accelrys, Inc., ANSYS, Inc., Ardesta, LLC, COMSOL, Inc., Coventor, Inc., Larta, MEMSCAP, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., Motorola, Inc., NanoBusiness Alliance, Computational Publications, Applied Computational Research Society, and Nano Science and Technology Institute.

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