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I sent an email to Elias Towe today, basically telling him I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'd like to do some nanotech stuff, thanks. He replied and said, hey, stop by my office, and we'll chat. So, I did, and we did.

The first thing that impressed me was that he was able to give me an overview of the CMU nanotech institute as if he'd done it a million times before. Maybe he has, but it was still cool to feel like he was actually putting some effort into presenting the institute to me.

We talked for 15 or 20 minutes about the stuff they do, and most of it sounds pretty interesting. I'm not really interested in the storage systems research, but stuff like nanoscale transistors, solar energy gathering, cleaning up New Jersey one molecule at a time, single photon transport, and a particular medical sensing application held my interest pretty well.

He said I should send him an email in a week or so and tell him what sort of general things I'd like to do, and he'll hook me up with the appropriate people in the nanotech institute.

Meanwhile, I'd like to check out the ICES Open House this Thursday. The Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) is the umbrella group under which the Center for Nano-enabled Devices and Energy Technologies (CNXT) sits. CNXT is where all the nanotech stuff happens.

So, yeah, the conversation with Dr. Towe got me pumped. Hooray.

Oh, and happy Halloween or something. :)