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DARPA Sponsors Meta-Materials Workshop

released August 22, 2000

The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring a workshop on the development and demonstration of "meta-materials" for DoD applications. This workshop will be held Sept. 29 at the Greenbelt Marriott in Greenbelt, MD.

Meta-materials are engineered nanocomposites that exhibit superior properties not observed in the constituent materials or nature. The superior properties of meta-materials are derived from the inclusion of artificially fabricated, extrinsic, low dimensional inhomogeneities. The goal of the Meta-Materials Workshop is to explore areas of interest to DARPA in the development and demonstration of novel meta-materials that will afford new and/or enhanced capabilities for a number of applications crucial to the military services.

The workshop will also feature poster session forums. to facilitate interaction and team forming amongst the participants. Workshop attendees are strongly encouraged to prepare posters and very short (2-3 minute) summary overview presentations describing areas of capabilities and interest in order to stimulate communications, interactions, and team prospecting. A short abstract of each poster presentation is required. Attendees are also strongly encouraged (although not required) to submit an electronic version of their poster presentations.

For further administrative information, contact Ronetta Andino at randino@snap.org. Attendees must register online at http://www.sainc.com/conf erence/View/index.asp?MeetingID=130.

For more information on DARPA's interests in meta-materials, visit the "Future Areas of Interest" area of the DSO website at http://www.darpa.mil/dso/.

 

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