The M.I.T. Club of Norway invites you to an exciting event on Nano-technology
Friday June 13th at 13:00 hrs. All conference participants (and their partners) are
also invited for lunch and a sail boat trip with Adella (first built in 1869) on the
Oslo Fjord on June 14th at 14:00.
Join us in welcoming to Norway two world famous Professors in the field of
nano- technology :
Professor Thomas Ebbesen, Professor at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg,
France
and
Professor Edwin L. Thomas, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), USA
Date: Friday, June 13th, 2003
Time: 13:00 – 15:00 hrs
Program:
Nanotechnology and its Potential for Novel Materials
Thomas W. Ebbesen, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France
Institute of Soldier nanotechnologies at MIT
Edwin L. Thomas, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering at MIT
Place: Accenture, Drammensvn. 165, 0212 Skøyen, Oslo
Cost: Due-paying MIT Club members free of charge. We ask a donation of NOK
200 for non-members/guests. This can be prepaid to bank account:
5136.05.57417 before June 11th, 2003 . Refreshments will be served.
Registration: See attached page
All conference participants (and their partners!) are invited to join Professors
Ebbesen and Thomas (and their wives) for lunch on the Oslo Fjord on the sailing
boat, Adella, June 14th at 14:00. Registering for the boat trip will be on a firstcome, first-served basis (approx. 90 places available). Please reserve your place
before June 6th.
Join us and learn about the exciting new field of nano-technology!
Best wishes,
Ellen Nedrebø
President, MIT Club of Norway __http://alumweb.mit.edu/clubs/norway/
MIT Club of Norway c/oEllen Nedrebø
Rognebærstien 12, 1349 Rykkinn Phone: 930 18 119 Fax: 23 30 84 01 e-mail:
ellen.nedrebo@alum.mit.edu Bank account: Den Norske Bank-5136.05.57417
http://alumweb.mit.edu/clubs/norway/
About the speakers:
Thomas Ebbesen is a Norwegian physical chemist born in Oslo in 1954. He was educated in
the United States and France, receiving his bachelor degree from Oberlin College (USA) and his
PhD from the Curie University in Paris in 1980. Since then he has done research in both public
and private institutions, in the US and in Japan, before returning to France in 1999 to build a
new laboratory at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg where he is currently a professor.
The author of many paper and patents, Ebbesen has received awards for his pioneering research
on nanostructured materials including the 2001 Agilent Europhysics Prize. He is a member of
the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. His current research is focused on
understanding how light can squeeze through tiny holes which has numerous consequences for
opto-electronics, optical communication and related fields.
Edwin L. Thomas is the Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.
He served as Associate Head for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 19951996, and, from 1989 to 1995 he served as the Director in the Program in Polymer Science and
Technology at MIT. He came to MIT from the University of Massachusetts, where he founded
and served as Co-Director of the Institute for Interface Science from 1986-1989, was Head of
the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering from 1985-88. He received the B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science from the University of Massachusetts in 1969
and the Ph.D. in Materials Science from Cornell University from 1974.
He is currently the Director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies - a $50M center
to enhance soldier survivability and protection by developing nanoscience and nanoengineering
concepts. Professor Thomas' honors and awards include the Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at
the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Freiburg in 1981, the Special
Creativity Award of the National Science Foundation (1996 and 1988), the 1991 High Polymer
Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, and the American Chemical Society Creative
Polymer Chemist Award in 1985, and Fellow of APS, 1986. Some of Professor Thomas'
research interests include the morphology of block copolymers; application of electron
microscopy to disordered materials; and optical properties of block copolymers and liquid
crystalline polymers.
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Please circle the appropriate “YES” s and return as soon as possible (for boat trip reply
before June 6th) to Ellen. Epost: en@venturos.no Fax: 23308401
YES, - I plan to attend the MIT Club of Norway nano-tech conference on June 13th
13:00 hrs. at Accenture.
YES, I plan to attend the lunch and boat trip on Adella at 14:00 .
YES, I plan to bring my partner.
Name:_______________________________________
Guest’s name__________________________________
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MIT Club of Norway c/oEllen Nedrebø
Rognebærstien 12, 1349 Rykkinn Phone: 930 18 119 Fax: 23 30 84 01 e-mail:
ellen.nedrebo@alum.mit.edu Bank account: Den Norske Bank-5136.05.57417
http://alumweb.mit.edu/clubs/norway/