Conferences

Our research funds include money so that we can report results at conferences. Here are the steps to organize a conference trip:

1. Decide on a conference (this article has a few ideas), ask Ethan about attending and the fund index that will pay.
2. Fill out a Request for Approval to Travel Form and take it to Verna.
3. Make travel arrangements (flying or driving, see below).
4. Make your talk or poster (info about printing posters).
5. After the trip, bring your receipts and reimbursement form to Verna.

Flying: For airplane tickets it is best to go through a university travel agent (Teel Travel). The ticket is paid for directly by the department. Teel travel are helpful and flexible. If you are traveling with family Teel can split the cost between OSU Physics and your own credit card. When using Teel travel, I have found their prices to be the same as www.orbitz.com. I often check schedules on orbitz before phoning Teel. If you buy your own ticket. You must provide evidence that the fare is comparable to what Teel travel offered you. If you bought the ticket and your trip is canceled, you will not get reimbursement.

Driving: The two driving options are rental car or personal car. Local rental cars should be paid for directly by the department. Phone the Enterprise office in Corvallis to make a booking. They will ask for the index code. If you drive your personal car, the mileage rate is $0.485 per mile (this includes fuel).

About 200 Gordon conferences are held each year in locations across North America and Europe. The conferences last one week and the number of attendees is limited (approximately 150 people at a conference). Morning sessions are for invited talks and afternoons are for researchers to engage with each other (free time and poster sessions). The titles of the conferences change every year, depending on the researchers who volunteer to organize the conference. In 2008 there will be "Single Molecule Approaches To Biology" (happens every two years). In 2009 there is “Proteins” and “Soft condensed matter, soft meets biology”.

Application for the a Gordon conference requires:

1. Title and Abstract for a poster.
2. Statement of your particular activities which justify favorable consideration of you as a participant and contributor to this Conference.

The biophysical society has a 5-day annual conference in February discussing questions such as

• The mechanics of proteins
• The physical properties of biological membranes
• Network analysis of signal pathways
• Imaging cell dynamics

The condensed matter division of the APS holds an annual meeting in march every year. There are plenary sessions discussing recent breakthroughs in solid state physics. There are focus sessions so special topics such as carbon nanotubes.

The abstract submission deadline is typically Nov 25 , conference registration deadline is approximately Jan 14 and housing reservation deadline is approximately Feb 11.

The Meeting typically occurs in February.

• 2008 - Tristan
• 2009 - Landon

The MRS conducts two major Meetings every year, the Spring Meeting (March) in San Francisco and the Fall Meeting (November) in Boston.

The abstract submission deadlines are approximately Nov 1 and ___.

• American Chemical Society - Two big meetings every year: March and August.
• Nanotech Insight Early April, hosted in Europe. 2009 speakers include Chad Mirkin and Adrian Bachtold. Topics include: Energy, Water, Electronics, Optics, Nanomedicine, Magnetism, Nanofabrication, Characterisation and manipulation.
• APS Northwest - May/June. A small conference in our region that is useful for networking with colleagues in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana & British Columbia. Talks include everything from cosmology to materials physics.
• International conference in Nanoscience and Technology - July or August. Scanning probe microscopy/spectroscopy and related instrumentation, nanosystems, nanomechanics, nanomanipulation, nanomagnetism, nanooptics, nanowires, nanofluidics, nanobiotechnology, molecular electronics, quantum devices, and advances in materials and processing for nanotechnology and nanofabrication
• Internation Electron Devices Meeting December in San Francisco. Includes physics and modeling of nanotechnology devices and architectures.
• Trends in Nanotechnology TNT - September in Europe. “One of the premier European conferences devoted to nanoscale science and technology with around 400 participants.”
• AMN5: February 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand. See link to AMN4
• Foundations of Nanoscience - April 2010 in Utah. Focus on self-assembled architectures and devices.