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October 24:

National Initiatives in Nanotechnology

session chair: Ken Gonsalves

7:30 - 8:30 On-site registration

8:30 - 8:50 Introductory Remarks: UNC-Charlotte Provost Joan Lorden

8:50 - 9:35  James Murday (Naval Research Labs):  "The National Nanotechnology Initiative: a new strategic plan and anticipated impact on national defense and homeland security"

9:35 - 10:15 Jeffery Schloss (NIH): "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research for Biology and Medicine"

10:15 - 10:45  Douglas Lowndes (Oak Ridge National Laboratories): "ORNL's New Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS): A Catalyst for 21st Century Science"

 

10:45 - 11:00  Break

 

Novel Materials and Theory

session chair: Tom Schmedake

11:00 - 11:45  Fraser Stoddart (UCLA): "An Integrated Systems-Oriented Approach to Molecular Electronics"

11:45 - 12:30  Thomas Mallouk (Penn State): "Nanoscale Building Blocks for Mesoscopic Materials"

 

12:30 - 1:45  Lunch - Chris Toumey (USC Nanocenter - University of South Carolina) "Reading Feynman into nanotech: does nanotechnology descend from Richard Feynman's 1959 talk?"
 

session chairs: Wade Sisk and Mahy El-Kouedi

1:45 - 2:30  Richard Siegel (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): "Assembling Materials and devices from Nanoscale Building Blocks."

2:30 - 3:15  Seth Marder (Georgia Institute of Technology): "Materials for the Microfabrication of Complex 3 Dimensional Structure, Using Two-Photon Activated Processes"

 

3:15 - 3:30  Break

 

3:30 - 4:15  Robert Shull (NIST): "Nanomagnetism: A New Materials Frontier."

4:15 - 4:45  Edwin L. Thomas (MIT):  "Templated Self Assembly of Block Copolymers: Top Down Meets Bottom Up"

4:45 - 5:15  Ray Tsu (UNC-Charlotte): "The Fundamentals of Quantum Dots and Devices"

 

October 24 (evening): 

5:30 - 6:30  Poster Session

6:30 - 7:00 Reception

7:00  Banquet - Dr Robert K. McMahan (Senior Advisor to the Governor NC for Science and Technology): "Innovation Capacity: North Carolina’s Science and Technology Based Economy and the Impact of Nanotechnology”

 

 

October 25:

Nanotechnology in Medicine

session chairs: Ken Gonsalves and Craig Halberstadt (CMC)

 8:30 - 9:10  Jennifer West (Rice University): "Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Gold Nanoshells"

9:10 - 9:50 Rudy Juliano (UNC-Chapel Hill): "Macromolecular Therapeutics; A Promising Application for Nano-technology"

9:50 - 10:30 Scott McNeil (NCI): "NCI - National Cancer Institute and Nanomedicine"

10:30 - 11:10 Nigel Walker (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIEHS): "Evaluating the safety of nanoscale materials: Current challenges and future directions"

 

11:10 - 11:20  Break

 

Metrology and Instrumentation for Nanoscale Science

session chair: Terry Xu

11:20 - 12:00 Bob Hocken (UNC-Charlotte):  "Precision Metrology"

12:00 - 12:40 Mark L. Schattenburg (MIT): "Patterning ultra-precision gratings for dimensional metrology."

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