Date
March 11-13, 2004
Starting at 9:00 a.m. on 3/11 and ending at noon on 3/13
Allow up to 1 hour for badging and 1 hour for travel time between
Knoxville airport and ORNL.
Registration is now available online. Please
fill out the form as soon as possible to allow time for security requirements. Registration deadlines are February 12 for foreign nationals and February 26 for U.S. citizens.
Location
Oak Ridge, TN
General information
on visiting ORNL. You will first have to check in at a security gate
on Bethel Valley Road.
After that, you would go to the Visitor's Center
for badging; and then to Weinberg Auditorium in 4500N.
Purpose
The understanding of tribology (friction or lubrication) at the nanoscale is experiencing revolutionary development at a rapid pace owing to recent advances in experiment, theory, and computation. This is significant because lubrication has a similar or greater range of multiscale phenomena, complexity in physical and chemical behavior, and economic impact as other research areas currently receiving high levels of focused research funding.
This workshop is intended to assess the state of the art of current developments in this rapidly-moving field, to point the way towards identifying the most important open scientific questions, and furthermore to prioritize these outstanding issues. We will be generating a white paper from issues explored at this meeting.
Invited Speakers (confirmed).
Letter-size poster: gif (100 dpi),
jpg (200 dpi)
Lodging
A block of rooms at $65/night has been reserved at the DoubleTree in Oak Ridge under the group "Frontiers in Tribology" (cutoff date for the block is 1/18/04). Attendees are responsible for making their own housing reservations.
Organizers
Yehuda Braiman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
braimany@ornl.gov, (865)241-2065
Peter Cummings, Vanderbilt University & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, peter.cummings@vanderbilt.edu,
(615)322-8129 or (865)241-4779
Steve Granick, University of Illinois-Urbana,
sgranick@uiuc.edu,
(217) 333-5720
