INVITED SPEAKERS

Dr. Bob Hocken

After completing a post doctoral assignment at the National Bureau of Standards, Dr. Hocken took a position in what was then the Dimensional Technology Section of the Optical Physics Division. This Section was responsible for the dimensional metrology calibrations for the United States as well as research in this same area. In a few years Dr. Hocken became chief of this section which later became the Dimensional Metrology Group. During this period he developed software correction of Coordinate Measuring Machines and the use of computer assisted theodolites (with Bill Haight) for large-scale stereotriangulation. In 1980 he was promoted to chief of the Automated Production Technology Division and played a lead role in the development of the Automatic Manufacturing Research Facility. In the early 80s he, with Kam Lau, developed the laser tracker for large-scale metrology and actively assisted in the creation of the first measuring machine standard ASME B89.1.12. He next became chief of the Precision Engineering Division a position he held from 1985 to 1988. In 1988 he came to UNC Charlotte as the Norvin Kennedy Dickerson Jr. Distinguished Professor of Precision Engineering. At Charlotte he has built a Center for Precision Metrology which is both nationally and internationally recognized as a center of excellence in dimensional measurement and manufacturing. He is now director of this Center, which is supported by the National Science Foundation, the State of North Carolina, and industry. The Center performs research and educates undergraduate and graduate students in metrology and manufacturing. During his career at UNC Charlotte Dr. Hocken has also performed research in areas ranging from large-scale metrology to nanotechnology. He was also very active in developing standards for machine tools and measuring machines (B5 and B89 standards). He is currently working with several other universities on an NSF funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center as well as a variety of other research projects. He has over a hundred papers and several patents in the areas of precision engineering and has taught for over 15 years.

Dr. Rudy Juliano 

     Dr. Rudy Juliano is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include macromolecular therapeutics and also cell adhesion molecules and signal transduction.
      Dr. Juliano received his B.S. in 1963 from Cornell University and went on to receive his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Rochester in 1971. He followed that with a post-doctoral appointment at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute. He joined the University of North Carolina’s Department of Pharmacology in 1987 and served as Chair of the department from 1987-2002. In 1993, Dr. Juliano was recipient of a Fogarty Fellow (Wellcome-CRC Institute). Dr. Juliano has served as the editor or associate editor of Cancer Resarch, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, and Molecular Pharmacology. He has also served on the editorial board of several other journals including: Cell Adhesion and Communication, Antisense Research and Development, Oligonucleotides, Pharmaceutical Research, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, and Journal of Cell Biology.
 

Dr. Doug Lowndes 

      Doug Lowndes is the Scientific Director of ORNL’s new Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (http://cnms.ornl.gov) which begins operation in October 2005. In 1999-2000 he served as Chairperson of the Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Group for the Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences (BES) program, during which time he edited and contributed to the report Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology Research Directions (1999) for BES. At ORNL Doug has served as leader of the Thin Film and Nanostructured Materials Physics group (http://www.tnmp.ornl.gov) in the Condensed Matter Sciences Division. His current research interests include nanomaterials growth and properties measurements, and the creation of multilayered oxides (heterostructures) with enhanced or new combinations of properties. He has authored or co-authored approximately 300 journal articles and book chapters, including a number of invited papers and reviews. From 1986-2000 Doug served as professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in electronic materials and thin-film growth and supervised graduate student research. Doug is a Fellow of the American Physical Society; he was appointed a Corporate Fellow of ORNL in 1994; and in 1995 he was named ORNL’s “Scientist of the Year”. In 2001 he was honored by UT-Battelle with an R&D Leadership Award “for his innovative leadership in the development of nanoscale science research and capabilities at ORNL.”

Dr. Thomas E. Mallouk

      Thomas E. Mallouk was born in New York and received an Sc.B. degree from Brown University. He was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. In 1985, he joined the Chemistry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1993 he moved to Penn State, where he is now DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry and Physics. He is best known for his work on inorganic self-assembly, and on the chemistry of porous, lamellar, and nanoscale materials. His research has focused on the application of inorganic materials to different problems in chemistry and physics, including molecular electronics, catalysis and electrocatalysis, photochemical energy conversion, chemical sensing, separations, superconductivity, and environmental chemistry. He is the author of approximately 240 scientific publications, including a few good ones, and has also edited three books on chemical sensing and solid state chemistry. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the director of the Penn State Center for Nanoscale Science.

Dr. Seth Marder

      Seth Marder is a Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, (courtesy) and the Director of the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a co-founder of Arizona Microsystems, L.L.C., Focal Point L.L.C. and LumoFlex, L.L.C. and is a member of the scientific advisory board of Lumera Corporation.
      Dr. Marder obtained a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and his Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, where he was a W. R. Grace Fellow. Dr. Marder then was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford from 1985–1987. After his stay at Oxford, he moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where he was a National Research Council Resident Research Associate from 1987–1989.
      His research interests are in the development of materials for nonlinear optics, applications of organic dyes and nanomaterials for photonic, display, and electronic applications.
      Dr. Marder is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003) and the Optical Society of America (2004). He has co-authored over 200 research papers, has organized or served on organizing committees for over thirty-five scientific conferences, including chairing the Seventh International Conference on Organic Nonlinear Optics. In addition Dr. Marder has co-edited several proceedings including an ACS symposium series monograph entitled "Materials for Nonlinear Optics: Chemical Perspectives", as well as proceeding for SPIE and MRS. Among his various editorial activities, he has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science Magazine.
 

Dr. Scott E. McNeil

      Dr. McNeil serves as Director, Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory for the National Cancer Institute at Frederick where he conducts pre-clinical characterization of nanomaterials intended for cancer therapeutics and diagnostics. Prior to joining NCI-Frederick (i.e. SAIC-Frederick), he served for three years as Senior Scientist in the Nanotech Initiatives Division at SAIC where he transitioned basic nanotechnology research to government and commercial markets. He has advised Industry and State and US Governments on the development of nanotechnology and is a member of several governmental and industrial working groups related to nanotechnology policy, standardization and commercialization.
      Dr. McNeil's professional career includes tenure as an Army Officer, with tours as Chief of Biochemistry at Tripler Army Medical Center, as an intelligence analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency and earlier as a Combat Arms officer in the Gulf War. He is an invited speaker to numerous nanotechnology-related conferences and has six patents pending related to nanotechnology and biotechnology. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Portland State University and his doctorate in cell biology from Oregon Health Sciences University.
 

Dr. James Murday

      Dr. James S. Murday received a B.S. in Physics from Case Western Reserve in 1964, and a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Cornell in 1970. He joined the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in 1970, led the Surface Chemistry effort from 1975-1987, and has been Superintendent of its Chemistry Division since 1988. From May to August 1997 he served as Acting Director of Research for the Department of Defense, Research and Engineering. From January 2003 to July 2004, he served as Chief Scientist, Office of Naval Research.
      Dr. Murday's interest in nanotechnology dates back to the 1980's where he instituted programs to develop the proximal probes - scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy and other related techniques. In 1997 he chaired the initial DOD Strategic Research Area committee on Nanoscience. He participated in the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Interagency Working Group that created the National Nanotechnology Initiative. From January 2001 to April 2003 he served as Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office. He is presently Executive Secretary to the NSTC Subcommittee on Nanometer Science Engineering and Technology (NSET).

Dr. Mark L. Schattenburg

      Dr. Mark L. Schattenburg is Senior Research Scientist in the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research.  He is Director of the Space Nanotechnology Laboratory and Associate Director of the NanoStructures Laboratory.  His principal interests are in the area of micro/nanofabrication technology, optical and x-ray interferometry, advanced lithography including optical, x-ray, electron-beam and nano-imprint, nano-metrology, x-ray optics and instrumentation, x-ray astronomy, high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy and space physics instrumentation utilizing nanotechnology.
        He has made numerous contributions to advanced lithography.  He is co-inventor of the attenuated (or halftone) phase-shift mask (PSM) that is licensed to semiconductor manufacturers around the world and is the only PSM option widely used for production of computer chips.  He was a pioneer of x-ray lithography (XRL) and responsible for a number of innovations, including the first use of refractory metal absorbers, the “microgap” x-ray mask and the flip-bonded x-ray mask.  He was the first to demonstrate the replication of sub-100 nm lines by XRL with out-of-contact masking.  He is also the co-inventor of spatial-phase-locked electron-beam lithography (SPLEBL) which led to the world’s most accurate electron-beam writer.
        He is a leading expert in interference lithography and pioneered advanced homodyne and heterodyne fringe locking technology, multi-level resist processing and achromatic interference lithography.  He is the inventor of scanning-beam interference lithography and developed the “Nanoruler,” the world’s most precise grating patterning tool.
        Dr. Schattenburg has a B.S. degree in physics from the University of Hawaii in 1978 and a Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1984.  He is a member of the Optical Society of America, the American Vacuum Society, SPIE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the American Society for Precision Engineering.  He was awarded the 2003 BACUS Prize by SPIE for the development of phase shift mask technology and an R&D 100 award in 2004 for the invention of the Nanoruler.

Dr. Jeffery A. Schloss

      Dr. Jeffery A. Schloss is Program Director for Technology Development Coordination in the Division of Extramural Research at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At NHGRI, he manages a grants program in technology development for DNA sequencing and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) scoring, and serves the NHGRI Division of Extramural Research and Office of the Director as a resource on genome technology development issues. He led the team that launched the Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science, and initiated a program to foster effective collaborations to validate new sequencing technologies for use in high-throughput laboratories. He currently manages the institute's $1000 genome sequencing technology development program. He previously served the NHGRI as program director for large-scale genetic mapping, physical mapping, and DNA sequencing projects.
      Dr. Schloss represents NHGRI on the NIH Bioengineering Consortium, BECON, established in 1997 to foster support for bioengineering research. Schloss served as the chair of BECON from 2001-2004. Among his numerous BECON activities, he co-organized the BECON 2000 symposium on nanotechnology in biomedicine. He represents the NIH on the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET), planning for the National Nanotechnology Initiative. He also co-chairs the working group for the NIH Nanomedicine Roadmap Initiative.
      Dr. Schloss has worked with local high school students, teaching about DNA sequencing and the ethical and societal implications of Human Genome Project. Before coming to NIH in 1992, Dr. Schloss served on the biology faculty at the University of Kentucky. He earned the B.S. degree with honors from Case Western Reserve University, the Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Carnegie-Mellon University, and conducted postdoctoral research at Yale University. Dr. Schloss's research in cell and molecular biology included the study of non-muscle cell motility and regulation of mRNA expression.

Dr. Robert D. Shull

      Dr. Robert D. Shull is presently the Group Leader of the Magnetic Materials Group at NIST. He received a B.S. degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science from MIT in 1968, and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgical Engineering in 1973 and 1976 respectively from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at CALTECH from 1976-1979, and then joined the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now known as NIST, in 1979. Since joining NIST, he has pioneered the area of magnetic nanocomposite refrigerants, rapidly solidified the AlMn alloy in which "quasicrystals" were discovered, prepared the first laser-ablated High Tc superconductor, first explained the novel attractable levitation found in some high Tc materials, proved exchange-biased bilayers reverse their magnetic state asymmetrically, and discovered the first spin density wave in a ferromagnet. Dr. Shull has co-authored over 140 publications, edited 5 books, holds 3 patents, and presented over 200 invited talks. Dr. Shull is the Past Chairman of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials and both initiated and helped write the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) championed by President Clinton in year 2000. He still sits on the Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to help orchestrate that initiative. He is also the son of Dr. Clifford G. Shull, the winner of the 1994 NOBEL PRIZE in PHYSICS.
 

Dr. Richard W. Siegel

     Dr. Siegel is the Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center and the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures.
      His holds degrees from Williams College (AB 1958) and the University of Illinois in Urbana (MS 1960, PhD 1965) and did post-doctoral research at Cornell University before joining the faculty of the Department of Materials Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1966-76). He was a research scientist, group leader, and research program manager in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory (1974-95).
      Dr. Siegel has been a visiting professor in Germany, Israel, India, Switzerland and Japan and also active in many professional organizations. He is a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group of the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, chaired the World Technology Evaluation Center worldwide study on nanostructure science and technology (1996-98), and was past chairman (1992-96) of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials.
      Dr. Siegel has authored over 230 articles and 17 patents in the areas of defects, diffusion, and nanostructured metal, ceramic, composite, and biomaterials. He has presented more than 430 invited lectures and edited ten books. Dr. Siegel is a founder and Director of Nanophase Technologies Corporation, and received a 1991 US Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. He is an Honorary Member of the Materials Research Societies of India and Japan, a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award (1994) in Germany, and a RIKEN Eminent Scientist Award (2001) in Japan.

Dr. Fraser Stoddart
Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Sciences
Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)

      Fraser Stoddart received his BSc (1964) and PhD (1966) degrees from Edinburgh University. In 1967, he went to Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario as a National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, and then, in 1970, to the University of Sheffield as an Imperial Chemical Industries’ Research Fellow. Later that same year, he joined the faculty at the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Chemistry. After spending a sabbatical (1978-81) at the Imperial Chemical Industries’ Corporate Laboratory in Runcorn, he returned to Sheffield where he was promoted to a Readership in Chemistry in 1982. He was awarded a DSc degree by the University of Edinburgh in 1980 for his research on stereochemistry beyond the molecule. In 1990, he moved to the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Birmingham University and was Head of the School of Chemistry there (1993-97) before moving to the University of California, Los Angeles as the Saul Winstein Professor of Chemistry in 1997. In July 2002, he became the Acting Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). On May 1, 2003 he became the Director of the CNSI and assumed the Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Science.
      Professor Stoddart has published over 700 scientific papers and is currently one of the 10 most highly-cited chemists, according to the Institute of Scientific Information. He has pioneered the development of molecular recognition-cum-self-assembly processes and template-directed protocols for the syntheses of mechanically interlocked compounds (catenanes and rotaxanes) that have been employed as molecular switches and as motor-molecules, respectively, in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS).
      His work has been recognized by many awards, including the International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry (1993), the American Chemical Society’s Cope Scholar Award (1999), and the Nagoya Gold Medal in Organic Chemistry (2004)He is currently on the international advisory boards of numerous journals, including Angewandte Chemie and the Journal of Organic Chemistry. He became an Associate Editor of Organic Letters on July 1, 2003. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London in 1994 and to the Fellowship of the German Academy of Natural Sciences, the Leopoldina, in 1999.
 

Dr. Edwin L. Thomas

      Ned Thomas’ research interests include polymer physics and engineering of the mechanical and optical properties of block copolymers, liquid crystalline polymers, and hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites. He has served as Associate Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and as Director of MIT’s Program in Polymer Science and Technology. Currently he serves as the Director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT. He and others from MIT co-founded OmniGuide Inc., in Cambridge. He holds a bachelor of science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University.
      Before coming to MIT, he founded and served as co-director of the Institute for Interface Science and was head of the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Thomas is the recipient of the 1991 High Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society and the 1985 American Chemical Society Creative Polymer Chemist Award He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1986 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003.
      Dr. Thomas has been a visiting professor and senior scientist at the Institut Charles Sadron at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique for Macromolecules in Strasbourg, France; visiting professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Florida, visiting professor in the Department of Physics at Bristol University; a Bye Fellow in the Department of Physics and Materials Science at Robinson College, Cambridge University; a visiting professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Freiburg; and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He has written the undergraduate textbook The Structure of Materials, has coauthored over 325 papers and holds eleven patents.
 

Dr. Chris Toumey

      Chris Toumey earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology at UNC – Chapel Hill. The main theme of his research is to use the methods of cultural anthropology to study scientific controversies, including creationism, fluoridation, cold fusion, and smoking. He is the author of approximately fifty articles and two books: God’s Own Scientists [1994] and Conjuring Science [1996]. He works in the University of South Carolina NanoCenter, where his work on societal interactions with nanotechnology addresses the ways people tell stories about nanotech, and the problem of public involvement in nanotech policy. His publications have appeared in Nanotechnology Law & Business, Engineering & Science, Techné, and other journals. He is also the creator and coordinator of the South Carolina Citizens’ School of Nanotechnology, an outreach program which has attracted national notice for its innovative ways of welcoming the lay public into discussions of nanotechnology.

Dr. Raphael Tsu

      Dr. R. Tsu started his professional career at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 1961, working on the theory and experiments related to electron-phonon interaction in piezoelectric solids. He became a close collaborator of Leo Esaki (Nobel Laureate in 1973) at I B M T. J. Watson Research Center where he joined in 1966.  A man-made semiconductor superlattice and modulation doping were conceived jointly with Esaki, in 1969; and resonant tunneling in 1973, which led to a rapid development of man-made quantum materials and quantum structures eventually evolved into the present day quantum dots and nanoelectronics. He received the Am. Phys. Soc. -International New Materials Prize (1985); Fellow of Am. Phys. Soc. (1980), and Alexander von Humboldt Award (1975). He came to UNCC in 1988 and became a distinguished Professor in 1995.

Dr. Nigel Walker

      Dr. Nigel Walker is a toxicologist in the Environmental Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), where he has been since 1995. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Liverpool in England in 1993 followed by postdoctoral training in environmental toxicology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore MD.
      Dr. Walker is currently the lead toxicologist for several initiatives of the DHHS National Toxicology Program including the NTPs toxicological evaluation of nanoscale materials. He has over 50 scholarly publications including peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and government reports. He is an adjunct assistant professor in the Curriculum in Toxicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently President of the North Carolina Society of Toxicology.
 

Dr. Jennifer West

      Dr. Jennifer West is the Cameron Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering at Rice University. Part of her research program is focused on the development of novel nanomaterials for biomedical applications, particularly in cancer and cardiovascular disease. Dr. West was the 2004 recipient of the Frank Annunzio Award for Innovation from the Christopher Columbus Foundation, listed in the MIT Technology Review TR100 and was the 2003 Nanotechnology Now "Best Discovery of the Year". Her research program is funded by NIH, NSF, DOD and private foundations, and she is also a founder of Nanospectra Biosciences.
 

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