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March 11, 2010
Commissioning Serious Games and Games Based Solutions for Education
March 29-30, 2010
Game Based Learning 2010
35 Kingsland Road
Shoreditch, E2 8AA, UK
London
The session will cover :
- Key factors on briefing, developing, testing, deploying and evaluating serious games and simulations.
- A variety of real-life case studies which provides practical insight in delivering a successful product.
- Provide a comprehensive overview from the initial idea to raising funds, understanding gaming mechanics in context of learning and engagement, selecting and negotiating with developers, producing specifications, understanding the users needs and choosing the right technologies and methods for reaching the target audience.
- Showcase a large number of serious games and simulations in a wide variety of sectors.
Know someone who may be interested in this event? Then please forward them this email or send them the link
http://playgen.com/commissioning-serious-games-and-game-based-learning-solutions
These events are also part of the
Game Based Learning Conference 2010 – March 29th – March 30th
Game Based Learning 2010 takes place over two full days and includes an evening social event to make valuable connections in a relaxed environment. With a main conference programme running during these two days combined with breakout sessions for special interest groups there is something for everyone with an interest in using gaming and social media technology to improve learning, teaching and training.
for more information visit:
http://playgen.com/commissioning-serious-games-and-game-based-learning-solutions
March 24-26, 2010
Transatlantic Workshop on Nanotechnology Innovation and Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia
On March 24-26, 2010, Georgia Tech’s Program in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP), with support from the Georgia Tech European Union Center of Excellence, will host a transatlantic workshop on nanotechnology innovation and policy in Atlanta. STIP is a joint program of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy and the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute. The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University is also a workshop co-sponsor. CNS-ASU researchers Dr. Philip Shapira (Georgia Tech School of Public Policy and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research) and Dr. Jan Youtie (Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute) are co-organizers of the workshop.
WORKSHOP CONTEXT: Through the manipulation of molecular-sized materials to create new products and process with novel features due to their nanoscale properties, nanotechnology promises to be a leading driver of future technology-based business and economic growth. Nanotechnology is already appearing in textiles, electronics, and other consumer and industrial products, and is expected to be increasingly used in medical, energy, and environmental applications. The US and Europe, along with many countries elsewhere, are investing billions of dollars annually in nanotechnology development. Yet, there are many challenges to be addressed as nanotechnology moves out of the lab into widespread use, including issues related to the companies and locations that will lead nanotechnology innovation, how potential risks can be addressed prior to commercialization, and how governance and policy for nanotechnology innovation should evolve.
Call for Papers
We invite contributions to the interdisciplinary Transatlantic Workshop on Nanotechnology Innovation and Policy. The workshop will engage early career scholars from the US and Europe with senior scientists, private sector and governmental representatives, public policy and international affairs experts, and other stakeholders from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss the development and implications of nanotechnology research and commercialization.
EARLY CAREER ELIGIBILITY: We seek contributions from early career scholars at US or European institutions. Graduate or postdoctoral students and researchers and faculty members near the beginning of their careers (e.g. in first 3 years since first appointment) are encouraged to participate.
SENIOR SCHOLARS: Expressions of interest to present research and serve as discussants are invited.
STIPENDS: A number of stipends are available to cover registration, airfare and accommodation expenses for the workshop.
PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS: Papers (c. 4000-8000 words) should be available for workshop presentation and online proceedings. Selected papers may be invited for special journal submission or an edited volume.
TO APPLY: Send (1) a proposed paper title and 100-150 word abstract related to nanotechnology research and commercialization and (2) a short curriculum vitae (1-2 pages) by email to Jan Youtie at jan.youtie@innovate.gatech.edu. Indicate (in email) if workshop stipend funding is requested.
Apply by February 5, 2010 to receive first consideration.
The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) is affiliated with the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO), in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. CNS-ASU research, education and outreach activities are supported by the National Science Foundation under cooperative agreement #0531194.
March 27, 2010 (10am-5pm FREE EVENT)
Nanopalooza at the San Diego Science Festival
PETCO Park, 100 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92101
Booth #RF23-RF24 (Right Field)
Explore the wonderful world of smalltech - nanotech that is!! Join us at the San Diego Science Festival Expo and 'excite your mind' with fun activities, games and experiments. Learn what makes nanotech special, what types of career opportunities there are in this field, and what type of nanotech-enabled products exist today and are coming in the future.
General Expo Details: www.sdsciencefestival.com
For more live events and webinars visit:
http://nanobionexus.typepad.com/nanobionexus/events-live-events.html
March 30-31, 2010
Capstone Meeting: Risk Management Methods & Ethical, Legal,
and Societal Implications of Nanotechnology
Arlington, Virginia
Join the 4th and final workshop in the nanoEHS series to engage in an active discussion and learn more about the state-of-the-art in two overarching nanotechnology-related environmental, health, and safety research areas: (1) Risk Management Methods & (2) Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications of Nanotechnology:
Discuss the state-of-the-science needs to assess the ongoing research progress and to identify and prioritize gaps and emerging trends as related to the recommendations in the National Nanotechnology Initiative’s Strategy for Nanotechnology-related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research,
Relate progress and next steps needed to adaptively manage the Federal government’s nanoEHS research strategy, and
Build dialogue and strengthen collaborations.
Who should attend?
We’re seeking involvement from a range of subject matter experts as well as the general public. We invite researchers and decision makers from academia, industry, all levels of government, and stakeholders.
How do I register? Where can I find more information?
For the latest details, check the workshop website: www.nano.gov/html/meetings/capstone/
Or
National Nanotechnology Coordination Office
4201 Wilson Blvd, Stafford II Rm. 405
Arlington, VA 22230
(Tel): 703-292-8626 (Fax): 703-292-9312
Learn more about the NNI at: www.nano.gov
April 8-9, 2010
Phoenix Summit of the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges
Arizona Biltmore, 2400 E. Missouri Avenue, Phoenix, Ariz.
A call to face the world’s biggest challenges
Summit will seek to engage public in solutions
for a sustainable future
Organized by Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering [http://engineering.asu.edu/]
Engineers, scientists, government and education leaders from across the country will participate in the launch of a call to action by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Science Foundation. The aim is to focus public attention on the challenges the nation must address to maintain national security, quality of life and an environmentally and economically sustainable future in the 21st century.
The Summit is designed to provide for public participation.
More information:
http://www.grandchallengesummit.org/phoenix-summit
Registration:
http://www.grandchallengesummit.org/phoenix-summit/registration
As the world’s population grows, the challenges of maintaining and improving the quality of life – socially, economically and technologically – will require efforts of increasing magnitude and complexity.
In its role as adviser to government leaders on issues critical to the nation’s future, the National Academy of Engineering has assembled a list of 14 Grand Challenges to spotlight the most pressing of these needed endeavors.
The list addresses the importance of developing new medicines and biomedical technologies, harnessing sources of renewable energy, ensuring larger supplies and wider distribution of clean water, keeping cyberspace secure, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of natural disasters, among other goals.
The Academy has selected ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering to host one of five summits around the country this year to increase public awareness of these issues, and to begin the process of engaging the public in the process of facing these challenges.
The Grand Challenge Summit Series represents a commitment to sustain the public dialogue critical to developing effective solutions to societal problems, as well as a commitment to transform the way we educate today’s students so that they are prepared for the challenges ahead.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
· Leland Hartwell, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
· Kristina M. Johnson, Under Secretary for Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
· Pamela Matson, Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
· James Duderstadt, President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
April 29-30,2010
NANOSENS 2010
Tech Gate, Vienna, Austria
NANOSENSORS FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
The conference is an information and discussion forum presenting recent R&D results in selected topical fields with highest application potential. NANOSENS 2010 is of great interest for industrial users als well as for scientists and advanced students.
TOPICS
Session I: HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION
Session II: NANOSENSORS FOR BIOMEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS
Session III: FUNCTIONAL LAYERED SYSTEMS
Session IV: 3D-SYSTEM INTEGRATION
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submission of abstracts: 29 January 2010
Confirmation of authors: 15 March 2010
Early registration discount: 26 March 2010
Closing date for registration: 23 April 2010
July 4-10, 2010
18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITES or NANO ENGINEERING
Anchorage, Alaska, USA
CALL FOR TWO-PAGE SHORT PAPERS
Interested author should submit tentative paper title immediately. The two-page detailed short paper, should be written, by following the format in web page.
Please apply for travel funds and passport visa early, since this can take time, and inform interested friends to present papers. We allow only one paper per presenter.
All ICCE-18 Anchorage, two-page short papers, will be reviewed and selected detailed short papers will be published in special issue of World Journal of Engineering, containing over 1000 pages. Participants of ICCE-18 are encouraged to expand the short paper to become full-length paper and then submit it to any journals of his/her choice, or submit for review in World Journal of Engineering. Thus, most participants will have two journal publication (one short paper, one long paper) as a benefit of coming to ICCE-18 Anchorage..
The excellent venue hotel in Anchorage will be announced soon, for planning purposes, the hotel cost is US$115+tax per night for six or more nights, US$135+tax per night for five nights or less.
The slogan of Alaska is ”the Last Frontier“, one of the last unexplored and unpolluted places in America. In the summer, you can ride the cruise ship to see glacier, taste the world’s best salmon, experience unique culture of the natives, and have a chance to see polar bears, and American eagles. You will enjoy long daylight, short night time. Many professors wish to go there because they have been in almost all 49 states, but not Alaska! Mount McKinley is the highest mountain in America, covered with snow even in summer, some photos can be see, please bring your telescopes,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_McKinley
Due to budgetary constraints, we cannot offer financial assistance. If you are absolutely sure you cannot attend this conference, please do not submit paper title to me.
David Hui
August 29 - September 2, 2010
COMS 2010
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
About COMS
COMS (Commercialization Of Micro-Nano Systems) is not just about the science (like so many other Micro/Nano conferences) but how to harness research and theory and turn them into commercial products. It's a hands on, practical meeting that will assist in bringing these technologies to market. COMS addresses the commercialization obstacles encountered in research, technology transfer, manufacturing processes, facilities, infrastructure, investment, applications and markets, as well as covering regulatory issues, social implications, education and workforce development. COMS is a networking showcase of insight, knowledge, experience and inspiration!
Topics:
• Energy
• Clean Tech
• Water
• Electronics
• Computing
• Sensors
• Biomedical Device Manufacturing
• Space – Aerospace
• Defense
• Materials
• Photonics
• Packaging
• Systems Integration
• Education/Workforce Development
Registration and more information at: http://www.mancef.org/COMS
September 13-17, 2010
International Week on MNT for Space 2010
ESTEC Conference Center
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
The International Week on Micro and Nano Technologies for Space is an event organized jointly by the ESA and CANEUS Organization to be held at ESTEC on September 13-17, 2010. This unique event builds on the previous six ESA Round-Tables on MNT for Space and five CANEUS World Conferences and Workshops
Call for Papers
Deadline May 3, 2010
Abstracts are solicited in the following topical areas for consideration for either oral or poster presentations:
- Micro-packaging and system integration
- Design and modelling of MEMS and MST
- Test, reliability and evaluation for space
- Technology transfer to and from space industry
- Flight feedback from in-orbit demonstration
- Usage in space projects
- Technology roadmaps
- Current strategy for the development of MNT for space
Since a few years, the interest of the space sector for nanotechnologies has increased and studies are now being performed to evaluate their potential. There are great expectations but there is still a need to investigate how well nanotechnology could answer the actual needs of the space community. Therefore, this Round-Table will also be the occasion to present the recent achievements in this field and to discuss realistic space applications.
Topics particularly encouraged for nanotechnologies are:
- Improvement of material intrinsic properties with nanomaterials (thermal and electrical conductivities, mechanical properties, radiation resistance,…)
- Characterisation of nanomaterials and nano-objects
- Nanotechnologies for microelectronics and microwave devices
- Nanotechnologies for power applications
- Upscale strategy
Moreover, this event shall also open new perspectives for disruptive technologies. In that respect, nanotechnology potential assets for space applications shall be presented, as well as related assessment and development activities.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is promoting the use of state of the art technologies for space applications by organising the 7th ESA Round-Table on Micro & Nano Technologies for Space Applications. It will be the opportunity to consolidate the MNT landscape and to discuss on the additional efforts needed to concretise MNT access to space programs, for spacecraft miniaturisation, attitude & orbit control system, telecommunication, payloads for Earth observation and space science, spacecraft power, launchers, navigation, etc.
For More information and Submission links visit:
http://caneus.org/MNTforSpace/call.html
September 29-October 2, 2010
Second Annual Conference Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies
Darmstadt, Germany
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (S.NET) is an international association that promotes open intellectual exchange towards the advancementof knowledge and understanding of nanotechnologies in society.
S.NET represents diverse communities, viewpoints, and methodologies in the social sciences and humanities. It welcomes contributions from scientists and engineers that advance the critical reflection of nanotechnologies and related developments.
The program committee invites all discussions of anthropological, cultural, economic, ethical, historical, philosophical, political, and sociological aspects of nanosciences and emerging technologies. This can take the form of individual abstracts, proposals for sessions with three to five presentations, and other formats. 250-word
abstracts for individual papers, up to 1000-word-abstracts for sessions and other formats can be submitted online until March 15 at www.theSNET.net. Notifications of acceptancewill be mailed by April 30, 2010. Graduate students are encouraged to submit.
In the spirit of an emerging society that looks at emerging technologies as an emerging field of inquiry, we welcome all innovative suggestions about themes and session-formats to foreground critical issues. These can be submitted informally at any time to the program committee. – Where needed, we will try to secure travel stipends for speakers. – This year’s plenary speakers include Armin Grunwald, Richard Jones,
Bernard Stiegler, and Jan Youtie.
More information about S.NET, the past meeting in Seattle, and the upcoming conference in Darmstadt can be found at www.theSNET.net
contact snet2010@phil.tu-darmstadt.de – conference website www.nanoOffice.eu/snet2010
November 1-3, 2010
Third Nanotechnology International Forum,
Moscow,Russia
Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies is glad to inform you that the Third Nanotechnology International Forum will take place in Moscow 1st through 3rd November 2010.
The Forum to be held in accordance with Executive Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1058-r, signed on July 30, 2009.
The Second Nanotechnology International Forum took place in Moscow in October, 6-8th, 2009. It was dedicated by the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.
More than 11 000 participants attended Forum events. More than 1400 representatives of global nanoindustry, government and business from 36 countries gave oral and poster presentations. 425 presentations were performed and 21 panel discussions took place during the Forum. 340 Russian and foreign companies participated in the exhibition. Total area of the exhibition was 2993 sq.m. (net).
All the Forum materials are available on official Forum website www.rusnanoforum.com
Participation terms will be published on the website after February 1st, 2010.
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