Program for the Frontiers of Science within Nanoscience workshop at Boston University
| Thursday, August 25 (Photonics
206) |
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8:00-9:00
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Registration and Breakfast |
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9:00-9:10
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Welcome - Claudio Chamon
(BU) |
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Session 1
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Talks on current research topics and cutting edge science questions in nanoscience, with a mediator/provocateur Format: 3 talks,
12min+18min for questions |
| 9:10-10:40 | session chair:
Michael Naughton |
| Ali
Yazdani "Probing Single Magnetic Acceptors and Their Interactions in GaAs" |
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| Dale
van Harlingen "Domain dynamics in unconventional superconductors" |
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Alexander
Chernyshev |
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| 10:40-11:00 |
Coffee break
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Session 2
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Talks on current research topics and cutting edge science questions in nanoscience, with a mediator/provocateur Format:
3 talks, 12min+18min for questions |
| 11:00-12:30 | session chair: Antonio Castro Neto |
| Kamil
Ekinci "Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)" |
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| Leon
Balents "The spin incoherent regime of strongly interacting quantum wires" |
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| Masaki
Oshikawa "What is order parameter?" |
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| 12:30-1:30 |
Lunch |
| Session 3 |
Talks on current
research topics
and cutting edge science questions in nanoscience, with a
mediator/provocateur |
| 14:00-15:30 |
session chair: Bennett Goldberg |
| Ahmed
Busnaina "High-rate Nanoscale Manufacturing Using Nanotemplates" |
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| Krzysztof
Kempa "Electromagnetic media through nanotechnology" |
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| Michael
Weiner TBA |
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee
Break |
| 18:00-20:00 | Reception at the Castle |
| Friday, August
26 (Photonics
206) |
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
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Session 4 |
Talks on current
research topics
and cutting edge science questions in nanoscience, with a
mediator/provocateur |
| 9:00-10:30 | session chair: TBA |
| Bert
Halperin "Spin-Orbit Coupling and Spin-Transport in Semiconductors" |
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| Ian
Affleck "Luttinger liquid Y-junctions" |
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| Joseph
Imry "Quantum Fluctuations and the Casimir Effect" |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
Session 5 |
Talks on current
research topics and cutting edge science questions in nanoscience, with
a mediator/provocateur |
| 11:00-12:30 | session chair: Shyam Erramilli |
| Carlo
Montemagno "Getting to Mind" |
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| Jeevak
Parpia "Room Temperature MEMS -- performance & applications" |
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| Franco
Nori "Superconducting qubits" |
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| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
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Session 6 |
Talks on current
research topics
and cutting edge science questions in nanoscience, with a
mediator/provocateur Format: 3 talks, 12min+18min for questions |
| 13:30-15:00 | session chair: TBA |
| David
Goldhaber-Gordon "Engineering Hamiltonians in the Laboratory - Many Body Physics in Semiconductor Nanostructures" |
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| Ray
Ashoori "Imaging Transport Resonances in the Quantum Hall Liquid" |
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| Charles
Marcus "Quantum Control of Spin in Quantum Dots" |
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17:00-18:30 |
Boston Duck Tour |
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18:30-22:00 |
Reception and Conference Banquet at Boston Museum of Science
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| Saturday, August 27 (Photonics
206) |
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
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Session 7 |
Summary talks Format: 1 talk, 30min |
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9:30-10:00 |
Bert Halperin |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee
Break |
| Session 8 |
The road ahead: the
fundamental Science questions in nanocience Format: open forum |
| 10:30-12:00 |
session chair: Claudio Chamon |
| 12:00 | Closeout |