Workshop
Inaugural Symposium
October 25, 2005
Beckman Institute Auditorium
Flyer-annoucement (pdf) available for posting.
Schedule (click on name for abstract)
| 7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:15 |
David Baltimore, Caltech: Welcome
Michael Roukes, Caltech: PMA, EAS, & Director of KNI
"Caltech's KNI: The Big Picture on Small Things" |
| 9:15-10:00 |
Daniel Rugar, Manager, Nanoscale Sciences, IBM Almaden Research
"Scanning the Nanoscale: Past, Present, & Future" |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee in the courtyard |
| 10:30-11:15 |
Ted Hänsch, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics
"Towards a Quantum Laboratory on Chip" |
| 11:15-12:00 p.m. |
Steven Block, Stanford
"Progress in Biological Nanoscience, Measured One Molecule at a Time" |
| 12:00-1:15 |
Box Lunches and Student Posters in the courtyard |
| 1:15-1:20 |
Dave Rutledge, Caltech, Introduction |
| 1:20-1:50 |
Jim Heath, Caltech, CCE
"NanoSystems Biology Cancer Center and the KNI" |
| 1:50-2:15 |
Christina Smolke, Caltech, CCE
"Programmable Molecular Switches and Sensors: Devices for Converting Biochemical Information into Biological Function" |
| 2:15-2:40 |
Pat Collier, Caltech, CCE
"Molecular Circuitry: Construction and Characterization of Coupled Biomolecular Dynamics" |
| 2:40-3:05 |
Michael Elowitz, Caltech, BIO
"Slow, Noisy, and Out of Control: Gene Circuits at the Single Cell Level" |
| 3:05-3:30 |
Coffee in the courtyard |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Axel Scherer, Caltech, EAS & PMA
"Frontiers and Applications of Nanophotonics at the KNI" |
| 4:00-4:25 |
Oskar Painter, Caltech, EAS
"Geometry and Scale in Photonics" |
| 4:25-4:50 |
Erik Winfree, Caltech, EAS
"Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA" |
| 4:50-5:20 |
Bill Goddard, Caltech, CCE & EAS
"Functional Nanoelectronics Devices from First (and Second) Principles" |
| 5:20 |
Farewell |
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