<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">We are pleased to announce UGIM 2018 at the University of Pennsylvania. The conference will be on Penn’s main campus in the City of Philadelphia from June 24-27th, 2018. The Program Chair is Vincent Luciani, NanoFab Manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Conference information can be found on the following web site:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://ugim.nano.upenn.edu" class="">ugim.nano.upenn.edu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vince and I will be finalizing session chairs in the coming weeks; in the interim, please review the <i class="">Call For Papers</i> section of the web site. Registration and abstract uploading capabilities will go live in early February. We have tentatively set a submission deadline for March 15th, 2018.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lastly, please consider you travel plans for this summer. I reserved a bunch of rooms at the Sheraton Hotel in University City, which is three blocks from the main conference venue on Penn’s campus. Contact information for the hotel (and discounted rate information) can be found in the travel section of the UGIM 2018 web site.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Noah Clay</div><div class=""><i class="">Chair UGIM 2018</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vincent Luciani</div><div class=""><i class="">Program Chair, UGIM 2018</i></div></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>