European
School On Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies
2012 session: August 26th - September 15th 2012 / Grenoble, France |
2012 session: August 26th - September 15th 2012 / Grenoble, France |
Scope
Scientific
Situation (context)
Organization
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Co-ORGANIZED
BY : - CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CEA, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives |
ESONN is a three-week course aimed at providing training for graduate students, postdoctoral and junior scientists from European universities and laboratories in the field of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies.
The academic and practical courses will cover aspects such as the elaboration, characterization and functionalities of nano-objects.
The program emphasizes the role of laboratory courses (half of the program is devoted to practical work).
The aim of today's research in Nanosciences is to develop basic knowledge on elementary, nanoscale-sized building blocks, in order to form physical, chemical or biological systems, which, on a macroscopic scale, will have new properties and new functions.
On a world-wide level, Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies constitute an important, fast growing field both in fundamental research and at the industrial level, because of the considerable potential of these new applications for economic development. Progress in Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies is characterised by the concomitant interplay between fundamental research on, and mass production of nano-objects. Around the world, many research centers have developed large-scale facilities, which are either suited for basic science or for mass production. Among them, the Grenoble area offers a remarkably rich array of research facilities (academic and industrial) which can be used for a practical training of young researchers in many fields of the physics, chemistry and biology.
In this context, we would like to promote an European School in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for advanced learning based on leading-edge research. In collaboration with National and European university partners, we set up, on a yearly basis, a 3-week program during which the students attend both lectures and laboratory courses. The aim of this training is to offer young researchers a structured view of the principles involved in the elaboration and in the functioning of nano-structures, nano-components and nano-machines. This program addresses in particular graduate students and post-doctoral scientists entering the field. Students from various universities spend three weeks together, participating in an intensive learning experience, thus forming long-lasting friendships that will promote their work beyond the PhD.
The program we propose is endowed
with two key points. The first is interdisciplinarity, since research in Nanoscience
demands a combination of various skills in physics, chemistry and biology. Learning
the basic knowledge necessary to communicate with other scientific communities
is a determining ingredient to create new nano-objects and to connect them to
the macroscopic world. The second point emphasises the role of laboratory courses.
In general, summer schools do not address this issue which is, however, of fundamental
importance both for basic science and for applications. Practicals are held
in clean-room facilities and research laboratories in Grenoble. They adress
a complete set of aspects, such as nanofabrication for top-down approach as
well as the chemical/physical mechanisms of nano-elaboration involved in the
bottom-up approach, the techniques of nano-measurements, nano-characterization
and the physical principles behind them, as well as other experimental methods
and instrumental skills necessary for research in the nano-world.
Direction
of the course :
Since 2007: directed by Hervé Courtois and Didier Delabouglise.
First
session of ESONN : Catherine Dubourdieu and Bertrand
Fourcade.
Second and third sessions of ESONN : directed by Hervé Courtois and co-directed by Catherine Dubourdieu.
This ninth session of this European
school will be held from August 26th to September 15th 2012, in Grenoble, France.
Two parallel sessions will be organized (A and B sessions). Each of them will
enrol about 27 participants (54 in total).
The program is structured to
highlight the fundamental and technological advances in Nanoelectronics (session
A) and at the interface between Physics and Biology (session B).
The two sessions will run in
parallel but they will share common lectures and praticals, as interdiciplinary
is a clear objective of this school.
Applicants to this school are :
Students enrolled in a doctoral
program of an university
Postdoctoral and junior scientists from academic or industrial laboratories