Professor Tom Webster has been selected as a panel member for a discussion on "Nanotechnology: Past, Current and Future" in conjunction with a symposium on nanostructured materials and nanotechnology at the Annual American Ceramic Society Meeting to be held in April.

The moderator for the panel will be Songwei Lu of PPG Industries, and other panelists include James H. Adair, Director of the NSF Particulate Materials Center of Pennsylvania State University; Mohan Edirisinghe of Queen Mary College, University of London; John A. Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Zhong Lin Wang, Director of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Electron Microscopy Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The panel will discuss such topics as: (1) the top ten specific areas that ceramic nanotechnology shows the most significant impact to our society as well as the best potential for commercialization; (2) the current critical issues and the top ten topics for academic ceramic nanomaterials research as well as the major players; (3) the future of nanotechnology -- will nanotechnology repeat the history of high temperature superconductors?

The panel discussion will be from 11:00 a.m. until noon on Wednesday, April 21, 2004.