Leading industrial researchers and noted University professors will present tutorial lectures describing scientific and technological challenges and problems of shrinking conventional electronic devices to nano- and subnano- scale, i.e., electronics where atoms and molecules serve as building blocks. Likewise, optoelectronics is becoming an essential area for integrated solutions to computing, data storage and telecommunication and enters revolutionary stage in its development in the past few years. Lately, it is common to see ideas, materials and technologies initially applied in one sector of electronics to be almost immediately applied as new solutions in another sector. Term nanoelectronics is also widely applied in conventional microelectronics, e.g., in the emerging area of Field Effect Transistors (FETs) that contain ultra thin dielectric films (1-D nanoscale), or in entirely new technologies like involving nanotubes (2-D nanoscale), and in applications of quantum dots and/or molecules (3-D nanoscale). In all these cases, quantum effects play an essential role and prevail in properties and operation of emerging and future electronic devices. These developments require fundamental understanding of relations between structure and function in devices at atomic scale level. The fundamental and applied research spurred by these needs spans diverse branches of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, and engineering, and binds theory and experiment as indispensable and inseparable tools.

The School, which is sponsored by Jagiellonian University, is an integral part of the NGCM2004 Conference and follows the three-day Symposium. All registered participantes of the Symposium are automatically enrolled in the School. However, the School is also opened without registration fee to region's students, researchers and engineers through kind support and encouragement of the Jagiellonian University and the JU Faculty of Chemitry. Registration is, however, required: please register at the School registration page at: http://asdn.net/ngcm2004/school/registration.shtml. Please print the School Poster (as PDF, 1.6MBytes, up to A2 size) and distribute it among your colleagues or post it in your organization. For details please contact Joanna Trybala (E-mail: , tel. +48 12-429 43 45) or Katarzyna Graczyk (E-mail: , tel. +48-12 429 43 45).