KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS
Keynote Addresses
(Preliminary List)
(Preliminary List)
Dr. Robin Staffin
biography
Director for Basic Research
Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Laboratories and Basic Sciences
U.S. Department of Defense
will speak on
“ DoD Basic Research ”
Mr. John Miller
biography
Director
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
will speak on
“ Opportunities & Challenges in Micro & Nanotechnology
Development for the U.S. Army ”
Colonel Michael O'Keefe
biography
Deputy Director
Chemical & Biological Technologies
U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency
will speak on
“ DTRA's Science & Technology Goals ”
Dr. Dennis Polla
biography
Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
will speak on
“ NEMS - Building the Future from the Inside Out ”
Dr. Masakazu Aono
biography
Director General
Nanomaterials Laboratories (NML)
National Institute for Material Science (NIMS)
Tsukuba, Japan
will speak on
“ Atomic, Ionic & Molecular Devices for Nanoelectronics ”
Prof. Michael Lee Roukes
biography
Professor of Physics, Applied Physics & Bioengineering
California Institute of Technology
will speak on
“ Advances in NEMS-based Sensing ”
Prof. Sri Sridhar
biography
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics
&
Chair of the Physics Department
Northeastern University
will speak on
“ Nanoscale Optics with Negative Index Metamaterials ”
Prof. Gregory Timp
biography
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
will speak on
“ Manipulating and Sensing Biomolecules
with Nanoscale Semiconductors ”
Prof. Michael S. Strano
biography
Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
will speak on
“ Near Infrared Fluorescent Optical Sensors
Based on Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes:
Multi-Modal Fingerprinting
& Single Molecule Detection ”
Invited Presentations
(Preliminary List)
(Preliminary List)
Dr. Ryan White
biography
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Santa Barbara
will speak on
“ Folding-Based Electronic Biosensors ”
Prof. Francisco J. Arregui
biography
Electric and Electronic Engineering Department
Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
will speak on
“ Interfacing to Electrical and Optical Sensors
Based on Nanostructured Materials ”
Prof. John A. Rogers
biography
Flory-Founder Chair in Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
will speak on
“ Printing Approaches and Semiconductor Nanomaterials
for 3D Electronics and Photonics ”
Dr. Richard Claus
biography
President
Nanosonic Inc.
Blacksburg, Virginia
will speak on
“ Self-Assembled Nanostructured Molecular
Electronic Devices & Sensors ”
Dr. Madan Dubey
biography
Research Physical Scientist
Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
will speak on
“ New frontiers in Nanotechnology:
Science and Technology of Interfaces
in Integrated Nanodevices ”
Prof. James M. Tour
biography
Chao Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Mechanical and Material Science
Rice University
Smally Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
will speak on
“ Graphitic Devices Made By Scalable Chemical Vapor Deposition Atop Silicon ”
Prof. Richard W. Siegel
biography
Director, Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center
Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
will speak on
“ Directed Synthesis and Assembly of Hierarchical
Materials from Nanoscale Building Blocks ”
Prof. Xiaolin Lei
biography
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
will speak on
“ Nonlinear Theory of Radiation-Induced
Magnetotransport in a DC-Driven
Two-Dimensional Electron System ”
Prof. Laszlo Kish
biography
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
will speak on
“ Fluctuation-Enhanced Sensing for Biological Agent Detection & Discrimination ”
Prof. Brian LeRoy
biography
Department of Physics
University of Arizona
will speak on
“ Scanning Probe Microscopy of Nanostructures ”
Dr. Frank Vollmer
biography
Biofunctional Photonics Group
The Rowland Institute of Harvard
will speak on
“ Label-Free Detection of Single Virions &
Their Accumulation Using Microcavities ”
Prof. Serge Luryi
biography
Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
State University of New York at Stony Brook
will speak on
“ Nonhysteretic Phenomena in the Metal-Semiconductor
Phase-Transition Loop of Vanadium Dioxide Films
for Bolometric Sensor Applications ”
Prof. Bruce Dunn
biography
Nippon Sheet Glass Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
will speak on
“ Three-Dimensional Battery Architectures for Micropower Applications ”
Prof. Alex Rimberg
biography
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dartmouth College
will speak on
“ Near Quantum-Limited Operation of
a Charge-Sensitive Electrical Amplifier ”
Prof. Stephen Tse
biography
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rutgers University
will speak on
“ Synthesis of RE-Doped c-BN and c-GaN
Nanopowders for Photonic Applications ”
Dr. Kerry Bernstein
biography
Principal Engineer
Applied Research Associates Inc.
will speak on
“ A Benchmark Perspective on New Nanoarchitectures ”
Prof. Muhammad Ashraful Alam
biography
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
will speak on
“ Sensors for Integrated Nanosystems ”
Prof. Song Jin
biography
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
will speak on
“ Screw Dislocation Driven Nanowire Growth
and Its Applications in
Solar Energy Conversion and Nanoelectronics ”
Dr. Aleksandr Noy
biography
Staff Scientist &
Theme Leader at the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
will speak on
“ Bionanoelectronic Devices Based on 1D-Lipid Bilayers
on Nanotube and Nanowire Templates ”
Prof. Mathias M. Schubert
biography
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
will speak on
“ Generalized Terahertz to Ultraviolet Ellipsometry
in Nanoscience: Optical, Electrical and Structural
Properties of Glancing Angle Deposited
Hybrid Nanostructures ”
Prof. Chunlei Du
biography
Institute of Optics & Electronics
Chinese Academic of Sciences
will speak on
“ Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Nanosensor ”
Dr. Shawn Dirk
biography
Sandia National Laboratories
will speak on
“ Fast Vapor Sensing Using Chemiresistors Functionalized
with Metal Nanoparticle loaded Silicate Matrixes ”
Dr. Shashi Karna
biography
Weapons & Materials Research Directorate
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
will speak on
“ Hybrid Nano and Bio-Nano Materials ”
Prof. David Ricketts
biography
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
will speak on
“ Materials and Devices for Hybrid CMOS Circuits:
Expanding the Functionality of Nanoscale CMOS ”