| Sunday PM | Kick-Off Session |
Discussion Leader: Stan Williams , Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
- James Heath, UCLA
Molecular Electronics: Architectures, Devices, and Circuits
- Moungi Bawendi, MIT
Nanocrystal Quantum Dots coupled to Optical Cavities and in Capacitors
Discussion Leader: Chris Murray, IBM Yorktown Heights
- Jeff Long, Berkeley
Toward Molecular Data Storage: Directed Assembly of High-Spin Metal-Cyanide Clusters
- Javier Tevada Palacios, Barcelona
Physics of magnetic molecular clusters: Quantum phenomena and applications
- C. T. Black, IBM Yorktown
Tunneling Magnetoresistance of Self-Assembled Magnetic Nanocrystal Arrays
- Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Tech
Some Chemical and Physical Properties of Material Confined to the Nanometer Length Scale
| Monday PM | Electrical Transport |
Discussion Leader: Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Lab
- D. Ugarte, LNLS, Brasil
"Quantum conductance in metal nanowires generated by mechanical stretching: structural and electronic effects"
- Oded Millo, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
"Spectroscopy and imaging of atomic-like states in semiconductor nanoparticle quantum dots"
| Tuesday AM | Nature and Nano |
Discussion Leader: Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley
- Jill Banfield, Wisconsin-àBerkeley
Biogenic oxides and sulfides: size, structure, microstructure, and reactivity
- Angela Belcher, UT Austin
"Biomolecular Recognition and Control of Nano Magnetic and Semiconductor Materials"
- Mike Duncan, University of Georgia
IR-REMPI Vibrational Spectroscopy of Metal Carbide and Oxide Clusters
- Frank Caruso
On the Particle Edge: Colloid Surface Engineering
| Tuesday PM | New Wave Nanostructure Synthesis Festival |
Discussion Leader: Jinwoo Cheon, Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST)
- Z. L. Wang, Georgia Tech
Oxide Nanribbons
- Xiaogang Peng, Arkansas
Green-Chemical Approachs towards High Quality Semiconductor Nanocrystals
- Stephen O'Brien, Columbia
Oxide Nanoparticles: Synthesis strategy and size dependent properties
- Brian Korgel, UT Austin
"Synthesis of Silicon Nanocrystals"
| Wednesday AM | Nanotubes and 1D Structures |
Discussion Leader: Louis Brus, Columbia University
- Phaedon Aouris, IBM Yorktown
Electrical Studies of Nanotubes
- Charles Lieber, Harvard
"Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanotechnology"
- Milldred Dresselhaus, MIT
Raman Spectroscopy of single Nanotubes
- Peidong Yang, Berkeley
Rational synthesis of inorganic nanowires and their properties
| Wednesday PM | Metal-Insulator Transitions in Clusters |
Discussion Leader: Uri Banin, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- Kit Bowen, Johns Hopkins
"The Insulator-to-Metallic Transition in Magnesium and in Zinc Clusters: An Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopic Study".
- Ori Cheshnovsky
Band gap closure and interband transitions in mercury clusters
| Thursday, Early AM | Reactivity and Catalysis in Nanoclusters |
Discussion Leader: Manfred Kappes, Karlusruhe
- Ueli Heiz, Ulm
Clusters: Building blocks in Nanocatalysis
- Uzi Landman, Georgia Tech
- Roger Miller, UNC
The Growth and Structural Characterization of Metal Cluster-Adsorbate Systems in Helium Nanodroplets
| Thursday, Late AM | Photonic Nanostructures |
Discussion Leader: David Norris, NEC Research Labs
- Robert Denning
The Holographic Definition of Photonic Crystal Structures
| Thursday PM | Photonic Nanostructures |
Discussion Leader: David Norris, NEC Research Labs
- Claude Weisbuch, Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau
- Jean Michel Gerard, CNRS/Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Bagneux, FRANCE
"Isolated quantum dots in pillar microcavities: a single-mode solid-state source of single photons"
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