Be a part of the Young Engineers + Scientists Symposium.

17 February 2012 | Casey Hennig

The office of the Vice Chancellor of Research here at UC Berkeley is organizing YESS!  What is YESS?  It's a collaboration between the Office Science & Technology from the French Embassy in the United States, and the EU Center of Excellence and stands for the Young Engineers + Scientists Symposium.

This year's symposium will focus on a very timely and exciting topic--nanoscience for clean technologies and will feature dynamic speakers from the US and Europe.

YESS will take place March 20th through the 22nd at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley.

Here's what Graham Fleming has to say, "We are fortunate enough in the Bay Area to have a critical mass of French and other European researchers and we are hoping to take advantage of this by creating a space in which young researchers such as yourselves (PhD candidates, post docs, young faculty members) from both sides of the Atlantic can come together and discuss their respective research endeavors around the use of nanotechnologies."  

Some examples of key topics that will be explored are:

• Reducing the Cost of Photovoltaics with Nanotechnologies
• Carbon capture, storage and utilization
• Waste heat recovery via thermoelectricity
• Efficient electronics through nanotechnologies
• Scaling Nanotechnologies to the Market — Tremendous Challenge
• Are nanotechnologies sustainable and green?
• Nanotechnologies and Energy Storage — Pushing Energy Density to the Limits

Go visit the symposium website at: http://yess2012.org/program/  where you can register and check out the flyer here!