Nano-Meeter

(Formerly Known as the Santa Barbara NanoCafe)

The CNS hosts free, quarterly Nano-Meeter events, created to engage the general public on growing nanotechnologies issues.  Each Nano-Meeter explores a different topic within nanotechnology, such as nanomedicine or global competition.  Professors from UC Santa Barbara present an overview of each topic,  and participants are invited to listen and participate in an informal question-and-answer session.  Co-sponsored by the California NanoSystems Institute at UC Santa Barbara, no science background is required to attend and participate in the Nano-Meeter.

For further information, please contact CNS Media Coordinator at cns@cns.ucsb.edu .

Professors Trish Holden, Arturo Keller and Bill Freudenburg lead the Summer 2008 Nano-Meeter in a discussion of green nanotechnologies

Fall 2008:

Energies and Nanotechnologies.  Take a glimpse into the future -- how will we meet our energy needs in the next 20 years?  Can nanotechnologies change the ways we generate energy?  Can innovative technologies solve global climate change and our dependence on foreign oil? 

Presentations by Alan Heeger, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and UCSB Professor of Physics; Craig Hawker, Director of the Materials Research Laboratory and UCSB Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials; and Dan Colbert, Executive Director of the UCSB Institute for Energy Efficiency.

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Summer 2008:

Green Nanotech: What is it?  Can scientists develop clean technologies using nanotechnology?  What kinds of products can be replaced with more environmentally-friendly products made with nanotechnologies?

Presentations by Trish Holden, Professor of Environmental Microbiology; Arturo Keller, Professor of Biogeochemistry; and Bill Freudenburg, Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology.

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Fall 2007:

China's Role in Nanotechnology: How innovative is China's science and technology?   Will China become a world nanotech player in what is predicted to become a $3 trillion industry?

Presentations by Rich Appelbaum, UCSB Program in Global & International Studies and Department of Sociology; and Alec Wodtke, UCSB Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Summer 2007:

Medical Nanotechnologies: Could this new technology revolutionize patient care, diagnosis and treatment?

Presentations by Barbara Herr Harthorn, Director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society; and Patrick Daugherty, UCSB Department of Chemical Engineering 

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Click here for the event handout.

Spring 2007:

Nanotechnology: What is it?  How could it change our lives?  Will there be any risks?

Presentations by Evelyn Hu, Scientific Director of the California NanoSystems Institute; and Patrick McCray, UCSB Department of History

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