Science and Engineering Council of Santa Barbara
December Luncheon
at
The Elephant Bar Restaurant
Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:00-1:30 PM

The Promise of the Very Small:
Nanoscience at the California NanoSystems Institute

The magic of nanoscience focuses on the possibilities of taking materials at the nanoscale and assembling these building blocks into novel materials, devices and systems with impressive new properties. The short term implications include better, faster information technologies and new kinds of sensitive biosensors. The longer term implications may include dramatically different ways of manufacturing complex circuits and networks. This talk will describe some of the nanoscience projects going on at UCSB under the California NanoSystems Institute.

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Professor Evelyn L. Hu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSB

Professor Evelyn L. Hu is Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute, a project shared by UCLA and UCSB. She has served as chair of UCSB's Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Before joining UCSB in 1984, Professor Hu worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, developing microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques to facilitate the study of superconducting and semiconducting devices and circuits. She has continued those research themes at UCSB, examining processes for the fabrication and operation of superconducting, electronic and optical devices.

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$12 for SEC members; $15 for non-members.
Information: Barbara Keaney (E-mail: scieng@silcom.com or call 805-684-4927).
Reservations NOT required.
Elephant Bar Restaurant: 521 Firestone Road.
Website: http://www.scieng.org

From the President: This month's luncheon program deals with technology at the forefront of materials science and electronics and promises to be very interesting. It will be followed in January by a discussion of the local job market by our Membership Chairman, Gary Kravetz. Annual membership renewals will be mailed out shortly, and we are pleased to announce that we have "held the line" and kept our dues the same again this year. When you send in your renewal, please also consider making a donation to our scholarship fund.

Timothy Murphy