Stevens hosts meeting of minds on electron-driven processes
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Top scientists from around the world who explore how electrons interact with gases, liquids and solids will hold a meeting of the minds March 16-17 at Stevens Institute of Technology. They will attend a two-day workshop on "Electron-Driven Processes: Scientific Challenges and Technological Opportunities," co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Stevens.
The workshop will be held in the 4th floor Skyline Room of Stevens’ Wesley J. Howe Center (main administration building, central campus). Sessions run from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 16; and from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, March 17.
Presenters from as far away as Australia, Germany and Great Britain as well as many from throughout the United States will be on hand. About 25 top physicists and chemists from universities, national laboratories, and industry with interests in the field of electron-driven processes are expected to attend.
Electron interactions with molecules result in the formation of chemically reactive free radicals, which initiate and drive the key reactions in many environments and applications such as mixed radioactive/chemical waste storage tanks, processing plasmas used in the manufacture of microchips, combustion sources, lighting sources, and the atmospheres of planets, comets and stars. Studying these electron-driven processes provides a microscopic understanding of the chemical reactions in these environments and thus helps advance many technologies that are based on these processes.
Sessions during the workshop will identify the current status of electron-driven processes; highlight recent advances in other fields of science that have the potential to stimulate advances in the study of electron-driven processes; identify the most promising scientific challenges for future studies; and identify crucial needs for an improved understanding of electron-driven processes in selected applications and technologies.
"We think the outcome of this workshop will be a vision and perspective for the most exciting future scientific challenges in this field, and the identification of applications and technologies where advances in this field will have a significant impact," said Dr. Kurt Becker, professor of physics and engineering physics at Stevens.
For more information about the workshop, including a list of its participants and a workshop schedule, please go to its web site at www.stevens.edu/~hshah2/becker/.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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