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LAST CALL FOR ZACATECAS PASI 2007, DEADLINE APPROACHING
March 16th, 2007


Dear Colleague:

We would like to invite you to encourage your students and postdoctoral
fellows to participate in the Pan American Advance Study Institute on
?Electronic States and Excitations on Nanostructures?, to be held in
Zacatecas, Mexico between June 11 and June 22, 2007.

The US National Science Foundation generously sponsors the event, which
includes support for local expenses of participating students and young
scientists.
A printable brochure describing this activity is in our web page
(www.qro.cinvestav.mx/pasi2007). We would appreciate it if you would
print and post it, or otherwise distribute this to all scientists that
may be interested in electronic structure and/or nanostructures at your
institution or elsewhere, especially those collaborating or with
contacts in Latin America.

The list of confirmed speakers includes:

Roberto Car, Princeton University
David Vanderbilt, Rutgers University
Emilio Artacho, Cambridge University, UK
Angel Rubio, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Sergej Savrasov, UC Davis
Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University
Richard Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana
Annabella Selloni, Princeton University
Kieron Burke, Rutgers University
Roberto Dovesi, Torino University, Italy
Franz Himpsel, University of Wisconsin
Ivan Schuller, UC San Diego
Saw Hla, Ohio University
Giacinto Scoles, Princeton University
Jan Jensen, University of Copenhagen
Nicola Spaldin, UC Santa Barbara
Sam Trickey, UF, USA
Karen Hallberg, CNEA Bariloche, Argentina
Hajo Freund, Germany

Additional information can be found on the web page of the event:
qro.cinvestav.mx/~pasi2007
or you can contact directly the organizers to pasi2007 en qro.cinvestav.mx

Please alert prospective participants that they should present a poster
on their ongoing work, and that the deadline to request support is March
16, 2007.

We hope you and your students can participate in this unique opportunity.

Best,

PASI-Zacatecas Local Committee:
Rumen Ivanov, UAZ
Aldo Humberto Romero, CINVESTAV
Noboru Takeuchi, UNAM
Sergio Ulloa, Ohio University
Alberto Vela, CINVESTAV
Stoyan Vlaev, UAZ
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