Session Topic: Carbo-Nano
(Sunday morning) |
Photograph session (8:30)
Session chair: Charlie Lieber (Harvard)
- Walt DeHeer (Georgia Tech)
"Conductance quantization in carbon nanotubes at room temperature"
- Manfred Kappes Karlsruhe
"Fullerenes, Superdimers and Nanotubelets"
- Paul McEuen (UC Berkeley)
"Wiring up individual Nanocrystals and Nanotubes"
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Session Topic: Chemo-Nano I
(Sunday evening) |
Session chair: R.L. Whetten (Georgia Tech)
- Chad Mirkin (Northwestern)
"Programmed Assembly of Nanoparticles Into Functional Materials"
- Françoise Remacle (Université de Liège,Belgium)
"Effects of Disorder on Electronic and Optical properties of quantum nanodots"
- Pat Collier UCLA
"The complex dielectric function of Ag quantum dot solids"
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Session Topic: Spectro-Nano
(Monday morning) |
Session chair: M. Bawendi (MIT)
- Catherine Brechignac (CNRS)
"Diffusion, aggregation and organization of preformed clusters on graphite"
- Ori Chesnovsky (Tel Aviv)
"Bandage Closure in Mercury Clusters"
- Vlasta B-Koutecky (Berlin)
"Theoretical exploration of stationary and ultrafast spectroscopy of small clusters"
- Hongjie Dai Stanford University
"Integrated Nanotubes: Chemistry and Physics of Nanoscale Materials"
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Session Topic: Magneto-Nano
(Monday evening) |
Session chair: Helmut Haberland (Freiburg)
- Chris Murray (IBM Watson)
"Building with Magnetic artificial atoms: the preparation and properties of magnetic transition metal nanocrystals superlattices"
- Dante Gatteschi (University of Florence)
"Magnetism and Quantum Size Effects in Moleculars Clusters"
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Session Topic: Surface-Nano
(Tuesday morning) |
Session chair: Bruce Koel (Univ. Southern California)
- Phillippe Fauchet (Rochester)
"Nanoscale Silicon Objects for Optoelectrionic, Electronic, and Sensing Operations"
- Toshio Ogino (NTT, Japan)
"Formation of Templates for Nanopatterning in Si Surfaces"
- Pierre Petroff (UC Santa Barbara)
"Semiconductor Self-assembled Quantum Dots: Properties and Potential for Novel Devices??"
- Alex Zunger (NREL)
"Electronic Structure of Free-standing-colloidal and Matrix-imbedded-self-assembled Semiconductor Quantum Dots"
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Session Topic: Chemo-Nano II
(Tuesday evening) |
Session chair: Gil Markovich (Tel Aviv)
- David Norris (NEC)
"Quantum Dot Photonic Crystals"
- Uri Banin (Hebrew University)
"Direct Identification of Atomic-Like States in InAs Nanocrystals"
- Sarah Tolbert (UCLA)
"Stability and host guest chemistry in nanostructures silica/surfactant composites"
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Session Topic: Clusto-Nano
(Wednesday morning) |
Session chair: Wanda Andreoni (IBM Zurich)
- Martin Moskovits (Univ. Toronto)
"Chemical pathways to Nanostructures"
- Uzi Landman (Georgia Tech)
"Clusters as dots and quantum dots as electron clusters"
- Alex Zettl (UC Berkeley)
"Novel properties of nanotubes and 'lower' fullerenes"
- Elections
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Session Topic: Assemblo-Nano
(Wednesday evening) |
Session chair: Louis Brus (Columbia University)
- Matt Tirrell (Univ. of Minnesota)
"Surfaces and Nanostructures Designed for Biological Interaction"
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Session Topic: Crystal-Nano
(Thursday morning) |
Session chair: Paul Alivisatos (Berkeley)
- Marie Pileni (Paris 6)
"2D and 3D Superlattice Nanocrystals: Synthesis and Physical Properties"
- Vicki Colvin Rice
"Making Nanocrystalline Oxides without Water: How Surface Hydration Affects Nanocrystal Structure"
- Stan Williams (Hewlett Packard Corp.)
"Chemical Thermodynamics of the Size Evolution and Shape Transitions of Strained Nanocrystals on Surfaces"
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Conference ends
(Thursday noon) |
- early lunch for 1:00 pm bus departure for Logan airport
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