SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:25 pm | Witten/McEuen Welcome and Introduction |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Few-Atom Structures |
| Discussion Leader: Paul McEuen, Cornell University |
7:40 pm | Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center Molecule cascades: controlling the motion of molecules on surfaces |
8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm | Kunio Takayanagi, Tokyo Institute Of Technology Chiral metal nanotubes |
9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:40 pm | Reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Novel Confined Electronic States |
| Discussion Leader: Philippe M Guyot-Sionnest, University Of Chicago |
9:00 am | Victor I Klimov, Los Alamos National Laboratory The ultrasmall-quantum-dot paradox: light amplification and lasing from non-emissive species |
9:45 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Paul F Barbara, University Of Texas, Austin Conformational control of energy and charge transfer in conjugated polymers |
10:45 am | Discussion |
11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:15 am | Dongmin Chen, Harvard University Competing classical and quantum effects in shape relaxation of a metallic nanostructure |
12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:15 pm | Goup Photo |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (author initials M-Z) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Magnetic Nanobits |
| Discussion Leader: Peter F Green, University Of Texas-Austin |
7:30 pm | Edwin L Thomas , MIT Rack and Roll - getting things organized using block polymers and gradient fields |
8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm | Samuel D Bader, Argonne National Laboratory Opportunities in nanomagnetism |
9:15 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | External Interactions and Decoherence |
| Discussion Leader: Leonid Levitov, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology |
9:00 am | Daniel C Ralph, Cornell University Quantum states in metal nanoparticles and single molecules |
9:45 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Min Ouyang, UC Santa Barbara Molecular Spin Bridges: the "Wiring" for Spin Communication between Colloidal Quantum Dots |
10:45 am | Discussion |
11:00 am | Coffee |
11:20 am | Leonid Glazman, University Of Minnesota Electron relaxation in nanowires with magnetic impurities |
12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (author initials A-L) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Nanotubes |
| Discussion Leader: Milton W Cole, Pennsylvania State University |
7:30 pm | R. Bruce Weisman, Rice University Optical spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes in surfactants: a probe of environmental effects on electronic properties |
8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm | Charles Kane, University Of Pennsylvania Excitons in carbon nanotube fluorescence spectroscopy |
9:15 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Amphiphilic Self-Structuring |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Rubinstein, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill |
9:00 am | Gerard Wong, University Of Illinois Complex behavior of simple ions near biopolymers |
9:45 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Paul M Chaikin, Princeton University Copolymer patterning of Landau orbits? |
10:45 am | Discussion |
11:00 am | Coffee |
11:20 am | Robert Magerle, Universitaet Bayreuth Pattern formation in thin films of block copolymers |
12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Posters |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Deformable Atomic Lines |
| Discussion Leader: Franz J Himpsel, University Of Wisconsin, Madison |
7:30 pm | Thomas Mitchell Wallis, University Of California From single atoms to metallic chains |
8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm | Ellen D Williams, University Of Maryland Surface lability: how, why and when surfaces reorganize to form self-patterned substrates |
9:15 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Molecular Control of Electrons |
| Discussion Leader: Tamar Seideman, Northwestern University |
9:00 am | Jacob Sagiv, Weizmann Institute Of Science Coming to Terms with Molecules and Atoms... |
9:45 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Paul S Weiss, Pennsylvania State University Measuring and controlling molecular-scale properties for single molecular devices |
10:45 am | Discussion |
11:00 am | Coffee |
11:20 am | Hongkun Park , Harvard University Single-molecule transistors |
12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
4:15 pm | Posters |
5:15 pm | Business meeting |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Novel Transmission |
| Discussion Leader: Douglas Natelson, Rice University |
7:30 pm | Harry A Atwater, Harvard University Plasmonics: photonic devices in nanostructure arrays that beat the diffraction limit |
8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm | Heinrich M Jaeger, University Of Chicago Electronic hopscotch: how electrons move through nanocrystal arrays |
9:15 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |