Nano@Tech is proud to be a part of Open Access Week 2013.  On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 Nano@Tech along with the Georgia Tech Library will celebrate, discuss, and promote the principles of Open Access with a seminar and workshop entitled "An Introduction to Online Simulations with nanoHUB" in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building.

Planned activites for the day include:
Nano@Tech Seminar: 12:00 - 1:00 PM  (Lunch will be provided)
Mythbusting Scientific Knowledge Transfer with nanoHUB.org:
Collaborative Research and Dissemination with Quantifiable Impact on Research and Education

Gordon Moore’s 1965 prediction of continued semiconductor device down-scaling and circuit up-scaling has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.  University-based open-source code development and sharing of the process modeling software SUPREM and the circuit modeling software SPICE ultimately transitioned into all electronic design software packages that power today’s $280 billion semiconductor industry.
Can we duplicate such multidisciplinary software, leading to true economic impact?  What technologies might advance such a process?  How can we deliver such software to a broad audience?  How can we teach the next-generation engineers and scientists on the latest research software? This presentation will show how nanoHUB.org addresses these questions.

More than 260,000 users in 172 countries annually participate in nanoHUB.org, a science and engineering gateway providing the capability to perform online simulation resources through a web browser without the installation of any software. nanoHUB is an online meeting place for simulation, research, collaboration, teaching, learning and publishing, with an ever-growing collection of 3,100 resources, including over 270 simulation tools. Over 12,000 users annually run simulation software from their browser in nanoHUB’s science computing cloud. Cumulatively, over 19,000 students in over 1,000 classes utilized nanoHUB simulations in classrooms and over 1,400 authors referenced nanoHUB in over 1,000 scientific publications. The platform has spawned nanoHUB-U and, in turn, Purdue HUB-U, interfaces for online courses that are broadly accessible around the world.
 
Workshop: 2:00 - 4:00 PM Introduction to nanoHUB.org – online simulation and more.
This workshop for students and faculty will provide a hands-on overview of nanoHUB’s modeling and simulation tools that cover a wide range of topics in nanoscale science and engineering, including chemistry, materials, electronics, solid-state physics, photonics, mechanics and bio/medicine.  These simulations run remotely on powerful computing clusters that allow the tools to be run via any browser, and even iOS devices, providing open access to users worldwide. 

Pre-register as a user at nanohub.org and then bring your laptop computer to this workshop to find out how you can use nanoHUB simulations to introduce interactive learning into your classes, visualize abstract concepts, or to help guide your experiments.
Presenters:
Timothy S. Fisher (PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 1998, Cornell) was born in Aurora, Illinois. He joined Purdue University’s School of Mechanical Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center in 2002 after several years at Vanderbilt University. He is an adjunct professor in the International Centre for Materials Science at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a research scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s newly formed Thermal Sciences and Materials Branch of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. Prior to his graduate studies, he was employed from 1991 to 1993 as a design engineer in Motorola’s Automotive and Industrial Electronics Group. His research has included studies of nanoscale heat transfer, carbon nanomaterial synthesis, coupled electro-thermal effects in semiconductor and electron emission devices, energy conversion and storage materials and devices, microfluidic devices, bio sensing, and related computational methods ranging from atomistic to continuum scales.

Tanya Faltens is the Educational Content Creation Manager for the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN.)  Her background is in Materials Science and Engineering (Ph.D. UCLA 2002), and she has mentored undergraduate materials engineering research in several areas, including the synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles for use in wastewater remediation and the creation of thin-film wide band-gap semiconductor structures with controlled nanoscale porosity for organic photovoltaics.  While a professor at Cal Poly Pomona, she used nanoHUB simulation tools with undergraduate students in engineering courses she taught in materials science and engineering and electrical engineering.  She has 2.5 years of hands-on informal science education experience at the Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley, and continues to be involved in nanoscale science and technology outreach activities.For more information about Open Access:http://www.library.gatech.edu/openaccess/content/mythbusting-scientific-knowledge-transfer-nanohuborg.

Nano@Tech

Sharing Our Knowledge, Shaping the Future

Nano@Tech is an organization comprised of professors, graduate students and undergraduate students from the Georgia Tech and Emory campuses and professionals from the corresponding scientific community who are interested in Nanotechnology. Meetings are held on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at noon, during the academic year.