psudeo-xenon, Simon Tarr

Images of the Nanoscale:
From Creation to Consumption


A Workshop Hosted by the
nanoScience and Technology Studies Group
in the University of South Carolina NanoCenter


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Images of the Nanoscale

This workshop brings together experts from diverse fields, each of whom has important insights to contribute to our understanding of images of the nanoscale. The premise of the workshop is that in their passage from creation to consumption -- or better multiple consumptions -- various kinds of expertise are involved in the generation and use of images of the nanoscale. Yet, the people from these various expert domains rarely communicate with each other about their particular contributions to images of the nanoscale. The value added by each kind of expertise in the biography of these images is black-boxed. In bringing together the full spectrum of experts, we hope to open up these black boxes for joint inspection and mutual enlightenment. We believe that the result will be a better understanding of images of the nanoscale, and ultimate better images, images that communicate more effectively and that are less easily misunderstood.


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Over the course of three days we will hear from several participants in plenary sessions. But the essential work of the event will be done by four breakout groups. These groups will meet together multiple times over the course of the workshop, and will report to the full group in a series of four plenary sessions at the end of the workshop. These closing plenary sessions aim at providing a general discussion of the diversity of issues attended to by each of the break out groups.

This conference is funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of South Carolina