The conference will focus on surface/interface issues related to:

• Multiferroic materials
• Epitaxial oxide heterostructures
• Graphene
• Novel theoretical approaches
• III-Nitride materials
• Nanostructures fro electronics and photonics
• Organic/inorganic interfaces
• Spintronics
• High-k gate dielectrics on semiconductors
• Physical and electronic structure of semiconductors
• Metal contacts to new semiconductors
• Carrier transport and optical properties

Young Scientists Awards will be offered constituting financial assistance to students, especially students presenting papers.

Speakers at the 2010 conference will include:

• Charles Ahn, Yale University – Ferroelectricity of Thin Films
• Eva Y. Andrei, Rutgers University – Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Graphene
• David Awschalom, University of California, Santa Barbara – Spins in Diamond
• David Cahill, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana – Ultralow Thermal Conductivity Materials, and Particularly the Role of Interfaces
• David G. Castner, University of Washington – Characterization of Biomolecule Interactions with Surfaces
• Frank Glas, CNRS – Semiconductor Nanowires

PCSI 2010 will be held January 10-14, 2010 at the La Fonda Hotel, E. San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501. For registration and more information you can visit their web site at http://www.pcsiconference.org.