<p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="text-align: justify; font-family: Arial" class="Apple-style-span">The MacDiarmid Institute would like to extend a warm welcome to you at the Fifth </span></span></p><p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="text-align: justify; font-family: Arial" class="Apple-style-span">International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN-5).<br /><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="text-align: justify; font-family: Arial" class="Apple-style-span">The biennial conference offers a broad interdisciplinary overview of advanced materials </span></span></p><p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="text-align: justify; font-family: Arial" class="Apple-style-span">and nanotechnology, and provides an exciting forum to discuss new and exciting </span></span></p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="text-align: justify; font-family: Arial" class="Apple-style-span">advances in the field.<br /></span></span><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="text-align: justify; font-family: Arial" class="Apple-style-span"><p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Technical symposia include:</font></p><ul><li><font size="3">nanoengineered materials and devices.</font></li><li><font size="3">nanolithography.</font></li><li><font size="3">nanoscale optics.</font></li><li><font size="3">nanotube growth and device concepts.</font></li><li><font size="3">nanoparticle synthesis and applications.</font></li><li><font size="3">nanophotonics.</font></li><li><font size="3">electron microscopy.</font></li><li><font size="3">biomolecular assembly.</font></li><li><font size="3">bionano-technologies (including bioMEMs and microfluidics).</font></li><li><font size="3">conducting polymers and molecular materials.</font></li><li><font size="3">functional nanocoatings.</font></li><li><font size="3">hybrid materials.</font></li><li><font size="3">novel semiconductor materials.</font></li><li><font size="3">strongly electron correlated materials.</font></li><li><font size="3">soft matter.</font></li><li><font size="3">physics of clusters and cluster-based devices. </font></li><li><font size="3">new materials and devices for radiation imaging and detection.</font></li><li><font size="3">plasmonics.</font></li><li><font size="3">nanopore science.</font></li><li><font size="3">spintronics.</font></li><li><font size="3">advanced materials.<br /></font><font size="3"> </font></li></ul><p><font size="3">2011 will be a most auspicious year marking the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold">100th anniversary of the </span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold">discovery of superconductivity</span>, and 25 years since high temperature </font></p><p><font size="3">superconductivity was first observed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /></font><font size="3"> </font></p><font size="3"><p><br />2011 has also been chosen as the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold">International Year of Chemistry, IYC2011</span>. This is intended as a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of humankind.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />We will be marking these events with special sub-themes during the conference.<br />Contributors include Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Anthony Leggett (Illinois), Professor Sir Richard Friend, (Cambridge), Professor Jean Fréchet (Berkeley and LBNL), and Professor Neil W Ashcroft (Cornell).</p></font><p>Wellington, New Zealand</p></span></span>
Contact:
Conference Secretariat
Conferences and Events
PO Box 24 078
Mail Centre Manners St
Wellington
Phone: 04 384 1511
Email: amn-5@confer.co.nz
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