Alexander Graham Bell Lecture to explore nanotechnology

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Lieber_Charles.jpg” caption=”Charles Lieber”]Technology using the tiniest scientific elements will have some of the biggest impacts on the future, says Charles Lieber, a distinguished chemistry professor from Harvard University, who will present the 27th Alexander Graham Bell Lecture this Thursday.

“Nanotechnology offers the promise of producing revolutionary advances in many areas, extending from biotechnology and medicine to electronics and computing, and thus may impact in a substantial way our future lives,” he says in a lecture abstract.

His lecture, entitled “Nanotechnology: From Biological Sensing to Electronics and Much More!” takes place Feb. 10 at 2:30 p.m. in the McMaster Centre for Learning & Discovery, Rm. 3020.

Lieber holds a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, where he is the Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry, and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Click here for more information about Lieber and his lecture.

In 1978, the Faculty of Engineering, and its Communications Research Laboratory, established the series of lectures in honour of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. The intention of this lecture series was part of the 20th anniversary celebration of engineering at McMaster University.

This lecture is presented annually by outstanding speakers on a topic in information and emerging technologies that is of interest to both the members of the University community and the general public.