California NanoSystems Institute
CNSI
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2nd Annual
FRONTIERS IN NANOSYSTEMS
February 21 - 24, 2006
Sheraton Kauai Resort


Tuesday, February 21
12 noon Conference Registration
3:30 - 6:00 PM

BIOMIMETIC NANOSYSTEMS

Moderator: Ken Bradley, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA

Presenters:

Dennis Discher
University of Pennsylvania
Shape Matters: Mimics of Spherical and Filamentous Viruses with Self-assembling Polymers

Tae Kook Kim
Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (Korea)
Live Approach in Life Science & Drug Discovery: A Magnetic Nanoprobe Technology for Imaging Molecular Interactions Inside Living Human Cells

Raoul Kopelman, University of Michigan
Swarms of Virus-Like Nanodevices Diagnose and Cure Brain Cancer

6:00 - 8:30 PM RECEPTION SPONSORED BY HITACHI
Ocean Point Lawn

Wednesday, February 22
7:00 - 8:45 AM Breakfast at The Point
(located adjacent to breakfast buffet at the hotel)
9:00 AM OVERVIEW OF THE CNSI
Fraser Stoddart, Director
9:15 - 12:50 PM

ADVANCES IN NANOSCALE METROLOGY AND NANOMECHANICS

Moderator: Jack Judy, Electrical Engineering UCLA

Presenters:

Charles Chase, Lockheed Martin
Impact of Nanotechnology on Aerospace

Michael Roukes, Caltech
Nanomechanical Systems: Recent Advances & Future Prospects

Alex Zettl, UC Berkeley
Physics and Applications of Nanotubes

10:30 - 11:00 AM Break & Graduate Student and Postdoc Poster Session
11:00 - 12:30 PM ADVANCES IN NANOSCALE METROLOGY AND NANOMECHANICS - (continued)
Lunch
1:00 - 7:00 PM Free Time
7:30 PM COCKTAILS OUTSIdE THE POIPU BALLROOM
Hosted by the CNSI
8:00 - 10:45 PM

SOCIETAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS

Moderator: Michael Darby, Anderson School of Business, UCLA

Presenters:
Brenda Egolf, Lehigh University
Mass media coverage of nanotechnology's environmental and health risks in the U.S. and U.K

Scott Hubbard, NASA Ames Research Center
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology December 2005-December 2006

Peter Vikesland, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

  Cocktail Hour on Site

Thursday, February 23
6:30 AM - 12 PM Free Time
12:30 PM Buffet Lunch on Site
1:00 - 5:30 PM

FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTONICS

Moderator: Kang Wang, Electrical Engineering, UCLA

Presenters:

Andrei Bernevig, Stanford (Shoucheng Zhang Research Group)
Transport in Semiconductors and Insulators with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Youssry Botros, Intel
An Overview of the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN) and CNSI collaboration

Mihri Ozkan, UC Riverside
Self-and Directed-Assembly of Nanoelectronics

3:00 - 3:30 PM Break & Graduate Student and Postdoc Poster Session
3:30 - 5:30 PM FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTONICS - (continued)
6:30 - 9:00 PM

QUANTUM AND LOW DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING

Moderator: Eli Yablonovitch, Electrical Engineering, UCLA

Presenter:

Seth Lloyd, MIT
Hacking the Universe


Friday, February 24
7:00 - 8:45 AM Breakfast at The Point
(located adjacent to breakfast buffet at the hotel)
9:00 AM - 12 Noon

CHALLENGES TO NANOMANUFACTURING

Moderator: Carlo Montemagno, CNSI Deputy Director

Presenters:

Michael Falcon
Director of Business Development, Molecular Imprints
Imprint Lithography for Nano-Scale Manufacturing

Robert Folaron, Former Director of Product Development, Zyvex
Developing and Manufacturing CNT-enhanced Polymer Composites

George Skidmore, MEMS & Nanotechnology Consultant
MEMS, NEMS, and Assembly for Nanomanufacturing

  Break & Graduate Student and Postdoc Poster Session
12:30 PM CLOSING REMARKS AND LUNCH