The YESSnano 2009, U.S. –France nanoscience event is co-organized on the U.S. side by NSF and on the French side by CEA, CNRS, ANR and SOLEIL.
Scientists and engineers from US and France have been building collaborative linkages between young scientists over the last two years through a series of workshops and symposia sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France, as well as CNRS and CEA in France. In 2007 a French-American Symposium following the model of the well known Frontiers of Science or Frontiers of Engineering meetings was held at the French Embassy in Washington, DC on October 22-24, and hosted more than 60 scientists and engineers from the two countries, sharing three different sessions on “Brain and Information and Communication Technologies”, "Environment and Sensor Networks” and “Modeling and High Performance Computing”.
This event was followed in July 2008 by a second symposium, the Young Engineering Scientists Symposium 2008 (YESS 2008) which also took place at the French Embassy with support from NSF, CEA, CNRS and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. This Symposium covered three topics: "Beyond silicon nanoelectronics", "Medical and Health applications" and "Societal dimensions and impacts".
YESS nano 2009 will take place in France at the synchrotron SOLEIL near Paris from November 16 to 18. The aim of this symposium is to bring together through a three-days meeting, a selected group of early-career engineers and scientists from industry, academia, and government labs to discuss leading edge research and pioneering technical work in several fields related to nanotechnology and to consider possible collaborations.
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