The summer school will feature tutorial lectures by leading inductrial researchers and noted university professors focusing on current scientific and technological challenges. Topics include:

- Challenges in shrinking conventional electronic devices to nano- and subnano- scale, i.e., electronics where atoms and molecules serve as building blocks.

- Developments in nanoelectronics such as Field Effect Transistors (FETs) based on ultra thin dielectric films and entirely new materials and technologies (e.g. nanotubes and quantum materials).

- New electronic, optoelectronic and photonic materials and devices at the nano and molecular scales, including their fabrication and applications in areas from computing to telecommunications to lighting.

- Applications of current materials and devices from areas such as electronics as new solutions in another sector (e.g. p-n junctions applied in the field of renewable energy)

In all these cases, quantum effects play an essential role and dominate the properties and operation of emerging and future electronic devices. These developments require a fundamental understanding of relations between structure and function in devices at atomic scale level. The fundamental and applied research spurred by these topics spans diverse branches of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, and engineering, and binds theory and experiment as indispensable and inseparable tools and the summer school lectures will cover areas ranging from theory to applications.

The School is a part of the NGC/CSTC 2009 Conference and is followed by the three-day Symposium. All registered participants of the NGC/CSTC 2009 conference are automatically entitled to participate in the School and will be automatically registered. The school is also open to local students in Ontario and is offered without any fee through the kind support and encouragement of the McMaster University. Registration is, however, required. Please register at the School registration page at: http://asdn.net/ngc2009/school/registration.shtml. For details please contact Tyler Roschuk (E.mail: roschutr/at/mcmaster.ca; tel: 905-525-9140 ext. 26196)