Welcome to Nano-Net 2006

Message from the Conference General Co-Chairs:

Dear Participants,

It is our great pleasure to welcome all of you to Nano-Net 2006 , the First International Conference on Nano-Networks!

The event is organized by CREATE-NET, in technical cooperation with the IEEE-TCCA, and sponsored by the IEEE CAS & CEDA, ICST, the European Union (IST-FET) and ENIAC, while the main industry sponsor is STMicroelectronics. The Conference is being held at the prestigious Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) on the beautiful Geneva Lake area, in Switzerland .

The Conference scope is at the cutting-edge, positioned to cover the intersection between emerging nanoscale devices and interconnect systems. Discovery at this interface is sustained by an interest in building systems from unprecedented numbers of nanoscale devices into complex and highly integrated systems. The challenges that face this pursuit are varied and substantial, yet we can make significant progress today by beginning to understand the changing relationships between devices, interconnect, and systems driven by the fundamental opportunities presented by nanotechnology. Likewise, new paradigms in information theory are necessary to analyze and design tomorrow's nanoscale communication networks.

The First Edition of the Nano-Net Conference is organized as a single-track high-quality event, featuring a premium Technical Program, with presentations delivered by world-class scientists and top industry experts. We have two exciting keynote speakers to kick-off the event: Philip Keukes of HP-Labs and Prof. Giovanni De Micheli of EPFL will share with us their visions about nanoscale interconnect and systems and the opportunities available to us as a field. Our Technical Program this year covers a wide spectrum of topics from nanoscale networks-on-chip and carbon nanotube interconnect modeling, to nanoscale wireless transmission and 3D nanowire integration. An outstanding Panel, organized by Intel, addressing design challenges for nanoelectronics will close the event. We are confident that you will find many interesting conversions during the program!

With Best Regards,