| Tuesday, May 30 |
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| 7:30 pm |
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Informal reception at the Sheraton Commander Hotel
lobby and in the Café-lounge. Badges available here. |
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Day One |
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| Wednesday, May 31 |
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| 8:00 |
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Breakfast
Maxwell-Dworkin ground floor lobby |
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| 8:55 |
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Sandip Tiwari, NNIN Director |
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Welcome Address |
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| 9:00 |
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Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences and Engineering at Harvard University |
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Opening Address |
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CASIMIR EFFECT |
| 9:10 |
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Federico Capasso (invited), Harvard University |
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| 9:50 |
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Steven Johnson (invited), Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 10:20 |
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Hideaki Taniyama, NTT, Japan |
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Radiation Force in High-Q Double-Layer Cavities of Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Slabs |
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| 10:40 |
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René Sedmik, ARC Seibersdorf, Austria |
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Detailed Parametric Study of Casimir Forces in the Casimir Polder Approximation for Nontrivial 3D Geometries |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
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Break |
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GENERAL PHOTONICS |
| 11:30 |
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John Joannopoulos (invited), Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| 12:10 |
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Edward Sargent, University of Toronto, Canada |
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Fast and Accurate Design of Photonic Crystal Devices |
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| 12:30-2:00 |
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Lunch |
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| 2:00 |
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Teri Odom, Northwestern University |
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Manipulation of Light in Anisotropic Nanostructures: Hole Arrays and Pyramids |
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| 2:20 |
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Michelle Povinelli, Stanford University |
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Slowing and Stopping Light in Photonic Crystals: Theory and Experiments |
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| 2:40 |
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Dario Gerace, ETH Zurich, Austria |
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Cavity-QED with photonic crystal nanocavities and semiconductor quantum dots |
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| 3:00 |
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Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania |
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Lumped Nanocircuit Elements and Circuit Theory in Nanooptics-- Optical-Field Nanoelectronics |
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| 3:20-3:40 |
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Break |
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NANO TRANSPORT: ATOMS AND WIRES |
| 3:40 |
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Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University |
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Well-Defined Single Molecule Circuits: Why do Amine-Gold Linkages Work? |
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Part I |
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| 4:00 |
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Mark Hybertsen, Columbia University |
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Well-Defined Single Molecule Circuits: Why do Amine-Gold Linkages Work? |
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Part II |
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| 4:20 |
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Bhaskaran Muralidharan, Purdue University |
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Quantitative theories for single molecule conduction: Formal and computational challenges |
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| 4:40 |
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Morten Stilling, Nano-Science Center, Denmark |
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Electronic Transport in Crystalline Magnetotunnel Junctions: Effects of Structural Disorder |
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| 5:00 |
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Bart Partoens, University of Antwerp, Belgium |
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Structural and electronic properties of B- and P-doped silicon nanowires: first-principles calculations |
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| 7:30 |
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Computer Session (view details and sign-up form here) |
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| Thursday, June 1 |
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| 8:00 |
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Breakfast
Maxwell-Dworkin ground floor lobby |
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2DEG TRANSPORT |
| 9:00 |
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David Goldhaber-Gordon (invited), Stanford University |
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Understanding how electrons organize themselves in tight quarters |
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| 9:40 |
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John Shumway (invited), Arizona State University |
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| 10:20-10:50 |
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Break |
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| 10:50 |
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Eric Heller (invited), Harvard University |
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Imaging electron flow in 2DEGS with and without a magnetic field |
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| 11:10 |
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Arindam Ghosh, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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Experimental Observation of 2D Kondo Lattice in Nonmagnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures |
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| 11:30 |
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Sheena Murphy, University of Oklahoma |
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Spin Focusing in InSb Heterostructures |
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| 11:50 |
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Svetlana Anissimova, Northeastern University |
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Comparison between experiment and Punnoose-Finkelstein theory of the metal-insulator transition in 2D electron systems |
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| 12:10 |
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Michael Fogler, University of California, San Diego |
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Scanned gate microscopy of a one-dimensional quantum dot |
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| 12: 30-2:00 |
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Lunch |
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MICROFLUIDICS I |
| 2:00 |
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Howard Stone (invited), Harvard University |
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| 2:40 |
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Luca Biferale, University of Rome, Italy |
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Dewetting transitions on micro-corrugated surfaces: a mesoscopic approach |
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| 3:00 |
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Boris Khusid, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
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Electric field driven transport phenomena at nanoscale |
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| 3:20 |
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Metin Muradoglu, Koç University, Turkey |
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Computational Modeling of Interfacial Flows in Microchannels |
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| 3:40-4:00 |
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Break |
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MICROFLUIDICS II |
| 4:00 |
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Sauro Succi (invited), Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Italy |
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A Lattice Boltzmann-Molecular Dynamics multiscale approach to the numerical simulation of DNA translocation |
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| 4:40 |
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Thomas Ward, University of California, Los Angeles |
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Squeezing and de-wetting of a drop between plane parallel surfaces: a model problem for understanding capillary adhesion phenomenon |
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| 5:00 |
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Manju Prakash, Cornell University |
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Mechanism of Heat transfer in Nanofluids |
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| 5:20 |
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Jacob Eapen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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The Role of Potential Energy Fluctuations in the Thermal Transport of Nano-colloids |
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| 6:00-8:00 |
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Poster Session |
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| Friday, June 2 |
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| 8:00 |
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Breakfast
Maxwell-Dworkin ground floor lobby |
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CORRELATION AND DOTS |
| 9:00 |
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Charles Marcus (invited), Harvard University |
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| 9:40 |
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David Guy Austing, National Research Council, Canada |
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Probing by transport the single-particle energy spectrum up to high energy of one quantum dot with the ground state of an adjacent weakly coupled quantum dot: A way to probe how circular and parabolic vertical quantum dot confinement potential can be |
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| 10:00 |
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Mark Gyure, HRL Laboratories |
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Synergy between Experiment and Computation in Developing and Characterizing Vertical "Enhancement Mode" Quantum Dot Devices |
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| 10:20 |
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Guy Ramon, University at Buffalo, SUNY |
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Dynamic nuclear spin polarization in gated double quantum dots |
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| 10:40 |
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Lev Mourokh, Queens College, CUNY |
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Fano resonances in the system of coupled quantum point contacts |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
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Break |
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AB INITIO |
| 11:30 |
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Normand Modine (invited), Sandia National Laboratories |
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Nano is Big: A First-Principles Electronic Structure Viewpoint |
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| 12:10 |
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Rajesh Sathiyanarayanan, University of Maryland |
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Multi-site Interactions--Implications and Sensitivity to Relaxation of Adatoms: Density Functional Theory Calculations |
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| 12:30-2:00 |
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Lunch |
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NANOSTRUCTURES I |
| 2:00 |
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Derek Stewart (invited), Cornell University |
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| 2:40 |
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Gerhard Klimeck (invited), Purdue University |
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| 3:20 |
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Vasili Perebeinos, IBM |
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Transport and Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes |
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| 3:40-4:00 |
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Break |
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NANOSTRUCTURES II |
| 4:00 |
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Cheol-Hwan Park, University of California, Berkeley |
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Excitonic Effects and Optical Spectra of Single-Walled Boron Nitride Nanotubes |
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| 4:20 |
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Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, University of Connecticut |
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Diameter and Metallicity Fractionation and Modeling of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes according to Redox Differences |
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| 4:40 |
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Ralph Nuzzo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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The Strange Non-Bulk Properties of Nanoscale Materials: Negative Thermal Expansion of γ-Alumina-Supported Pt Catalysts |
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| 5:00 |
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Mina Yoon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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The Role of Defects in Determining the Structural Stability of Carbon-based Nanomaterials |
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| 5:20 |
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Chenggang Tao, University of Maryland |
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Ag islands decorated by C60 |
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| 5:40 |
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Conference Banquet |
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| Saturday, June 3 |
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| 8:00 |
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Breakfast
Maxwell-Dworkin ground floor lobby |
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NANO BIO |
| 9:00 |
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George Whitesides (invited), Harvard University |
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Comments and Suggestions for Problems at the Interface between Computation/Simulation and Materials Science |
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| 9:40 |
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Robert Johnson, University of Pennsylvania |
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Molecular Dynamics Simulations of DNA Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensors |
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| 10:00 |
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Vittorio Cristini, University of California, Irvine |
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Virtual Cancer: Towards the Development of Integrated Computational and Experimental Models |
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| 10:20 |
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Brian Pereira, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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Autocatalytic Reactions of Inteins: Insights from Molecular Dynamics, Quantum Mechanics, and Molecular Biology |
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| 10:40 |
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Cengiz Özkan, University of California, Riverside |
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Carbon Nanotube-DNA Nanoarchitectures and Electronic Functionality |
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| 11:00-11:20 |
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Break |
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| 11:20 |
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Sadasivan Shankar (invited), Intel Corporation |
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| 12:00-2:00 |
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Grace Notes |
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