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A Nano research tour at Northwestern?
| From: | Robb Murray |
| Sent on: | Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:45 AM |
The below just went to the NU Nano Center.
Note the fascinating books listed at the bottom --
a new vocabulary of concepts is there.
a new vocabulary of concepts is there.
--Robb Murray
Dear Northwestern Nano Staff --
My name is Robb Murray and I am a Chicago software training
contractor.
We have a club that is 2 years old called the Chicago Science Field
Trips Club.
We are a group of adults, some scientists, some lay people, who are
all science
enthusiasts.
We tour and learn about the ingenious lab
spaces, research centers, conferences, etc., in the area
that are leading edge and that appeal to our general-interest
membership.
We discuss what we learn and think critically about information
found.
We attended the Nano public lecture day at U of C physics
department last winter. (I am a U of C alumnus.) We are looking
to notch up the directness of research observation.
Is there a chance that we might have a one-hour tour of your
building,
say on Saturday, March 7 at 1 PM? Any other day and time
would also be fine and I am proposing this one only as a reference point to work
from.
We would be interested to see labs, fabrication or observation
equipment, nano samples, projects underway and anything else that would put us
closer to the
way nano research and development is actually pursued at
NU.
Personally, I have followed and enjoyed the dialogues and debates
of Eric Drexler, Ray Kurzweil and others and have been entertained and
challenged by Michael Crichton's novels, NEXT and
PREY.
We would be thrilled and honored to learn firsthand of your truly
vanguard-advancing research and await the pleasure of a reply.
With best regards,
Robb Murray
Chicago Science Field Trips Club
This is what we know of your facility and activities
so far:
These are famous books and studies we have heard of through Michael
Crichton's appendices:
Algorithms and Search Optimization in Machine
Learning
Artificial life 7 (conference)
Cambrian
Intelligence
Computational Genetics
Evolution of Infectious Diseases
Hidden
Order; How Adaptation Builds Complexity
Life in
a New Context -- Ed Langdon,
editor
Out of
Control (Perseus Press 1994) -
about bio organization
Prey-Predator Behavior: Its
Spatial Organization and Autogenesis
Self-Organizing Machines
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