Upcoming Meetings
The Office of Science and Technology published two notices in today's Federal Register that should be of interest to the Nanotechnology community. The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office will be holding a public meeting on 11/16/2009 from 7PM-8:30PM at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge in Arlington. The "Nanomaterials and the Environment & Instrumentation, Metrology, and Analytical Methods Workshop: Nanotechnology Public Primer Meeting". This meeting will provide general background information about nanotechnology and Federal nanotechnology research and development efforts. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. For more information on this meeting, please read the Federal Register Notice.
The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office is also holding a workshop at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge on 11/17-18/2009, from 8:30AM - 5:30PM on the 17th and from 8:30AM - 3:30PM on the 18th. This workshop will be an open forum to "discuss the state-of-the-art of the science related to environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanomaterials in two areas: human health and instrumentation and metrology". As with the meeting on the 16th, space is limited and pre-registration is required. For more information on this meeting, including how to present 3-5 minutes of public comments, please see the Federal Register notice. A list of speakers and a provisional agenda are also available at the National Nanotechnology Initiative website.
