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Welcome, Guest.  Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley The 2008 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum was a huge success! Thanks to all of our attendees and sponsors. Videos of the keynote speakers are now online. See video from this year's Nano Forum! See this year's poster session winners! The 2008 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum will feature panels on nano electronics, solar technology, health care, business and public policy, as well as distinguished speakers such as
A poster session and break-out sessions round out the agenda. BNF 2008 Registration BNF 2008 Informational Poster For more information, please visit the 2008 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum page. Poster Session • Keynote Speakers • Panelists/Speakers Sponsors Agenda Click here for the forum agenda and posted presentations. Welcome to BNF 2008! Welcome to UC Berkeley's leading nanotechnology event! This all-day forum on Sunday, April 27 is a great opportunity to learn more about nanotechnology today. Listen to views of top scientists, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and meet your fellow Bay Area and Berkeley community members spearheading research and innovation in the field of nanotechnology. This theme for this year's forum is: Prospects: from Ideal to Real. In addition to prominent speakers and panelists, the forum will feature a student poster session, showcasing the state-of-the-art research of the Bay Area researchers and students in nanoscience and nanoengineering. About the Poster Session Researchers working in the area of nanoscience or nanoengineering are invited to present their research at the conference, before top scientists, investors and entrepreneurs. A total of $2,500 in prizes will be awarded to the best posters. Each presenter receives complimentary registration to the Forum (including breakfast, lunch and a t-shirt), a participation prize, a certificate and a chance to win an iPod nano. In order to present your research at the Forum, send a title, author list, affiliations and description of the project to Kayte Fischer (kayte [at] berkeley.edu) with CC to Tapan Patel (tapanpatel [at] berkeley.edu) by April 5. Do not exceed 250 words. Keynote Speakers  Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University Director, The NASA Institute of Nanoelectronics and Computing Supriyo Datta received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India) in 1975 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979. In 1981 he joined Purdue University where he is currently the Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and a IEEE Centennial Key to the Future Award in 1984, the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the ASEE in 1994 and shared the SRC Technical Excellence Award, 2001 and the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, 2002 with Mark Lundstrom. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society (APS) and the Institute of Physics (IOP) and has authored several books: Surface Acoustic Wave Devices (Prentice Hall,1986), Quantum Phenomena (Addison-Wesley, 1989), Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems (Cambridge, 1995) and Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor (Cambridge, 2005). His current research interests are centered around the physics of nanostructures and includes spin electronics, molecular electronics, nanoscale device physics and mesoscopic superconductivity.  Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley Co-Director, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center Liwei Lin received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991 and 1993 respectively. He joined BEI Electronics Inc. USA from 1993 to 1994 in research and development of microsensors. From 1994 to 1996, he was an Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. From 1996 to 1999, he was an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department at the University of Michigan. He joined the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and is now an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Study in the Mechanical Engineering Department and Co-Director at Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, NSF/Industry/University research cooperative center. His research interests are in design, modeling and fabrication of microstructures, microsensors and microactuators as well as mechanical issues in microelectromechanical systems including heat transfer, solid/fluid mechanics and dynamics. Dr. Lin is the recipient of the 1998 NSF CAREER Award for research in MEMS Packaging and the 1999 ASME Journal of Heat Transfer best paper award for his work on micro scale bubble formation. He served as Chairman of the Micromechanical Systems Panel of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division in 1997 and 1998 and led the effort in establishing the MEMS sub-division in ASME and is currently the Chairman of the Executive Committee. He holds 8 U.S. patents in the area of MEMS. Speakers and Panelists  Director of Research, Lux Research, Inc. Mark Bünger is the Research Director at Lux Research based in the firm's San Francisco office. Lux Research is the world's premier research and advisory firm focusing on the business and economic impact of nanotechnology. Mark joined Lux Research with 14 years of business strategy experience, both as a management consultant and technology analyst. Most recently, he was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, where he studied and advised clients in manufacturing industries including automotive and aerospace. Prior to that, he was an International Engagement Manager at European consultancy Icon Medialab, as well as the Managing Director of Icon Medialab's U.S. office. The first six years of his career were spent at Accenture in the U.S., U.K., and Scandinavia, where he was a consultant focusing on a variety of industries and technologies. Mark and his work have figured in leading business journals and other media outlets in the U.S. and Europe, including CNN, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and other regional and trade publications.  Director, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley Carolyn Bertozzi is a native of Boston, MA and attended Harvard University as an undergraduate where she earned her A.B. in Chemistry in 1988. She moved to UC Berkeley to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry working with Professor Mark Bednarski on the synthesis and biological activity of C-glycosides. After graduating in 1993, she pursued postdoctoral research at UCSF with Professor Steven Rosen, characterizing endothelial oligosaccharides that promote leukocyte adhesion at sites of inflammation. Bertozzi returned to Berkeley as a member of the faculty in 1996. Bertozzi is now the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at UCSF. In addition, she is the Director of the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Bertozzi is a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies co-Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. Bertozzi is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been recognized with numerous awards including the Ernst Schering Prize, MacArthur Foundation award, ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, Irving Sigal Award from the Protein Society, Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, ACS Cope Scholars award, and the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. Bertozzi’s research focuses on applications of chemistry and nanoscience in the study of cellular processes. Her group has developed chemical approaches for profiling changes in cell surface glycosylation associated with cancer and identified metabolic pathways in Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are candidate drug targets. In addition, Prof. Bertozzi’s group has developed new materials engineered at the nanometer scale to mimic the biological materials mucin and bone. Finally, her group has developed biomimetic coatings for nanotubes that enable their use in biological systems.  Professor of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine Xiaoyuan Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the Stanford School of Medicine. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Nanjing University in Nanjing, China and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Idaho in Moscow, ID. After postdoctoral fellowships at Syracuse University and Washington University in St. Louis, Xiaoyuan worked for SynPep, Inc. as a radio-organic and peptide chemist and became a Professor of Radiology at the University of Southern California. Now at Stanford, Xiaoyuan's research includes the use of quantum dot probes for near-infrared fluorescence imaging of breast cancer angiogenesis, nanoparticles for tumor-targeted delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA), and single-walled carbon nanotubes as delivery vehicles for cancer therapy.  Director of Liposome Research, HERMES Biosciences, Inc. Dr. Drummond earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Indiana University where he studied membrane biochemistry and biophysics. He later became a postdoctoral fellow at California Pacific Medical Center under the guidance of Demetrios Papahadjopoulos, who was affectionately known as the “father” of modern day liposomes. Following completion of his postdoctoral work and Dr. Papahadjopoulos passing, Dr. Drummond worked together with Dr. Dmitri Kirpotin and Dr. Keelung Hong to direct the research efforts in Dr. Papahadjopoulos’ academic laboratory, the Liposome Research Laboratory, at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. In 2000, he became the first scientist hired by Hermes Biosciences and quickly rose to the position of Director of Liposome Research, where he currently directs the liposomal/immunoliposomal therapeutic research and development efforts at Hermes. His experience includes the formulation of a broad range of therapeutic agents, including both small molecular weight drugs and nucleic acid-based therapeutics, GMP manufacturing of liposomal therapeutics and human scFv antibody-PEG-lipid conjugates for immunotargeting, conjugation or formulation of novel imaging agents, and the development of strategies for modulating the efficiency of in vivo drug delivery for liposomal therapeutics. Dr. Drummond is the co-author on more than 30 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters, and seven patents or patent applications, in the field of liposomes or various lipid-based drug delivery technologies.  Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Solar Business Group, Applied Materials, Inc. Dr. Charlie Gay was named corporate vice president and general manager of the Solar Business Group at Applied Materials in 2006. An industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in the solar industry, Dr. Gay is responsible for establishing and building Applied Materials' solar business. Dr. Gay began his career in 1975 designing solar power system components for communications satellites at Spectrolab, Inc. and later joined ARCO Solar, where he established the research and development program and led the commercialization of single crystal silicon and thin film technologies. In 1990, Dr. Gay became president and chief operating officer of Siemens Solar Industries and from 1994 to 1997, he served as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the world's leading laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and technology. In 1997, Dr. Gay served as president and chief executive officer of ASE Americas, Inc., and in 2001 became chairman of the advisory board at SunPower Corporation. Dr. Gay has a doctorate degree in physical chemistry from the University of California, Riverside. He holds numerous patents for solar cell and module construction and is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Achievement from the World Renewable Energy Congress.  Group Leader, Computational Nanoscience Group, UC Berkeley Executive Director, Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems (COINS) Jeffrey C. Grossman leads the new NSF Nanoscience and Engineering Center, COINS, at the University of California at Berkeley. He is charged with driving forward several large-scale sensing applications through highly interdisciplinary research approaches involving 30 faculty members at Berkeley, Stanford, and CalTech. In addition, Dr. Grossman heads the Computational Nanoscience Group at UC Berkeley, which is actively engaged in a number of research areas relating to the simulation of nanoscale materials and interfaces. His research focuses on the application and development of cutting-edge classical and quantum simulation tools to understand, predict, and design novel nanoscale materials with applications to: developing new sensing approaches, predicting new materials for efficient photovoltaics, examining the microscopic properties of water, understanding the growth mechanisms of carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires, and designing controllable self-assembly processes of inorganic nanoscale building blocks. Dr. Grossman received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois, performed postdoctoral work at U.C. Berkeley, and was a Lawrence Fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he helped to initiate a large-scale computational nanoscience program. He is a widely published scientist, and has been in the business of simulating nanoscale materials for over 15 years.  Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University Prior to joining the Stanford Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2006, Prof. Heilshorn completed a PhD in chemical engineering and biology at Caltech and was a postdoctoral scholar in neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering was earned at Georgia Tech, and she also studied as a Visiting Scientist at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in the Polymer Science Department. Prof. Heilshorn combines these diverse fields to design new materials that mimic those found in our own bodies. Her laboratory specializes in synthesizing protein-based materials with nanoscale precision for tissue engineering applications. At Stanford, Prof. Heilshorn is part of the Stanford Regenerative Medicine Program, the Bio-X Program, and the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials.  Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, UC Berkeley Thomas Kalil is currently the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. He has been charged with developing major new multi-disciplinary research and education initiatives at the intersection of information technology, nanotechnology, microsystems, and biology. He will also help develop a broad range of partnerships between 2 of the California Institutes of Science and Innovation (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, California Institute for Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Quantitative Biomedical Research) and potential stakeholders in industry, government, foundations, and non-profits. Previously, Thomas Kalil served as the Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Technology and Economic Policy, and the Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council. He was the NEC’s "point person" on a wide range of technology and telecommunications issues, such as the liberalization of Cold War export controls, the allocation of spectrum for new wireless services, and investments in upgrading America’s high-tech workforce. He led a number of White House technology initiatives, such as the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the Next Generation Internet, bridging the digital divide, e-learning, increasing funding for long-term information technology research, making IT more accessible to people with disabilities, and addressing the growing imbalance between support for biomedical research and for the physical sciences and engineering. He was also appointed by President Clinton to serve on the G-8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (dot force). Dr. Kate Li
Staff Toxicologist, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, CAL-EPA Kate Li is a staff toxicologist in the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of the California EPA. Dr. Li is a board certified toxicologist specialized in pharmaceutical toxicology, regulatory toxicology and human health risk assessment. She was a scientific manager responsible for pre-clinical toxicology evaluation of drug candidates at Berlex (now Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals). She received a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Harvard University.  Staff Scientist, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Donald Lucas is a staff scientist in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. As a Principal Investigator of the Combustion Group, he is interested in combustion generated air pollutants, experimental chemical kinetics, novel diagnostic techniques for hazardous species and combustion chemistry. He is also a Professional Research Scientist in the School of Public Health and an affiliate in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. Dr. Lucas earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Illinois Institute of Technology before coming to UC Berkeley to receive a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. After working as a Research Associate for Indiana University, he was a lecturer and visiting professor in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University and in the Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering Departments at UC Berkeley. Dr. Lucas is a member of the American Chemistry Society, The Combustion Institute, the American Association for Aerosol Research, and Sigma Xi.  Acting Director, Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility, Molecular Foundry, LBNL Jeffrey B. Neaton leads the Theory group at the Molecular Foundry in LBNL. Jeff received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 2000, under the guidance of Neil W. Ashcroft. After a departmental postdoc in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University, he joined the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2003. His current research interests center on computational nanoscience, in particular the development and application of methods for calculating the structural, spectroscopic, and transport properties of inorganic and molecular nanostructures, particularly at interfaces and contacts. Present areas of interest include the electronic properties of the metal-organic interface, hybrid silicon-organic interfaces, and single-molecule junctions; self-assembly; nanoparticle assemblies; photovoltaics; hydrogen storage; ultrathin epitaxial films of transition metal oxides, such as ferroelectrics and multiferroics; and structural and electronic phases of light elements under pressure.  Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dean of Graduate Division, UC Berkeley Andrew Szeri is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of Graduate Studies at UC Berkeley. Andrew received his M.S. in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1988, both from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He was a Weizmann Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and then had a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara, after which he became an assistant professor at UC Irvine in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. Now a member of the Applied Science and Technology Group at UC Berkeley, Szeri's current research interests are fluid dynamics and applied mathematics: especially convective-diffusive transport, nonlinear dynamical systems, perturbation methods, control theory, bifurcation theory, knot theory, applications to transport processes in bubbles, ultrasound in medicine, sonoluminescence, shock wave lithotripsy, dynamical neuroscience and ion traps.  Business Development Manager, Nanosys, Inc. Vijendra (VJ) Sahi is a serial entrepreneur with experience across a range of industries, from biotech to nanotechnology. After completing advanced degrees in chemical engineering and biochemistry from the University of Toronto, VJ joined Affymetrix, the world leader in DNA array technology. Subsequently, VJ was involved from the early pre-IPO phase of Ciphergen Biosystems (now Vermillion) and assisted in the maturity of a company through its successful IPO in 2000. From there in 2002, VJ was an initial employee and helped found Nanosys, a company that has grown to be one of the pre-eminent companies in the emerging nanotechnology area. Initially as a technologist, VJ helped developed many of the material synthetic platforms that are being used by Nanosys and its partners to enable high value applications in fields as varied as bio-diagnostics and display electronics. VJ has over 15 patents and numerous publications including a seminal paper in Nature. In 2005, he moved to the business side of nanotechnology where, in his role as business development manager, he has responsibility for opening up new opportunities in nanotechnology. Over his 15 year career, he has acquired significant operational and business experience and the understanding of what is required to advance business in cutting edge areas such as nanotechnology.  Professor of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley Faculty Research Scientist, Materials Science Division, LBNL Rachel A. Segalman is the Charles Wilke Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Her research interest is in self-assembly of functional polymer systems. Her research group is particularly interested in materials for energy applications such as photovoltaics, fuel cells, and thermoelectrics. Professor Segalman received her B.S. in 1998 from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002. In 2002-2003, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow, at Ecole Europeenne de Chimie, Polymeres et Materiaux (ECPM) une composante de l'Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. In 2004, Professor Segalman was named Charles Wilke Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Materials Science Division. Professor Segalman received the MDV Innovators Award in 2007 and was named to Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators under 35-years-old. Professor Segalman also received the 3M Untenured Faculty Award (2006-2008), Hellman Family Young Faculty Award (2007); National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2005); Intel Young Faculty Award (2002); National Science Foundation Fellowship (1998); MRS Graduate Student Award Finalist (2001); Corning Foundation Fellowship (2001); and a Chateaubriand Fellowship (2003).  Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley Irfan Siddiqi received his AB (1997) in chemistry and physics from Harvard University. He then went on to receive a PhD (2002) in applied physics from Yale University, where he stayed as a postdoctoral researcher until 2005. Irfan joined the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 2006. In 2006, Irfan was awarded the George E. Valley, Jr. prize by the American Physical Society for the development of the Josephson bifurcation amplifier. In 2007, he was awarded the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Hellman Family Faculty Fund, and the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Partnership Faculty Fund.  Deputy Director, Science, Pollution Prevention and Technology Development, CAL-EPA Jeff Wong is the Deputy Director of the Science, Pollution Prevention and Technology Program for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) at the California Environmental Protection Agency and serves as DTSC’s Chief Scientist. That program is engaged in environmental measurements, biological and exposure monitoring, toxicology and risk assessment, green chemistry, pollution prevention and waste minimization, and verification and evaluation of technologies involved in hazardous and toxic materials detection, containment, treatment, disposal, or cleanup. Before his current appointment, Dr. Wong served as chief of DTSC’S Human and Ecological Risk Division. In that position, he directed the scientific organization that gathers site characterization data and performs risk assessments in support of the state’s hazardous waste and site remediation programs. Dr. Wong has served on several National Academy of Sciences committees, including the Committee on Risk-Based Approaches for Disposition of Transuranic and High-Level Radioactive Waste, the Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities, the Committee on Remedial Action Priorities for Hazardous Waste Sites, the Committee on Mine Placement of Coal Combustion Wastes and the Panel for Review of the DOE Environmental Restoration Priority System. He has also served on scientific peer review panels for the US EPA and US DOE and by presidential appointment in areas related to the management and disposal of nuclear materials. Dr. Wong earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology from University of California, Davis.  Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley Eli Yablonovitch graduated with the Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1972. He worked for two years at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and then became a professor of Applied Physics at Harvard. In 1979 he joined Exxon to do research on photovoltaic solar energy. Then in 1984, he joined Bell Communications Research, where he was a Distinguished Member of Staff, and also Director of Solid-State Physics Research. In 1992 he joined the University of California, Los Angeles. Then in 2007 he became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. Prof. Yablonovitch's work has covered a broad variety of topics: nonlinear optics, laser-plasma interaction, infrared laser chemistry, photovoltaic energy conversion, strained-quantum-well lasers, and chemical modification of semiconductor surfaces. Currently his main interests are in optoelectronics, high speed optical communications, high efficiency light-emitting diodes and nano-cavity lasers, photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and quantum communication. Panel Moderators Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology, UC Berkeley Thomas Kalil is currently the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. He has been charged with developing major new multi-disciplinary research and education initiatives at the intersection of information technology, nanotechnology, microsystems, and biology. He will also help develop a broad range of partnerships between 2 of the California Institutes of Science and Innovation (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, California Institute for Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Quantitative Biomedical Research) and potential stakeholders in industry, government, foundations, and non-profits. Previously, Thomas Kalil served as the Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Technology and Economic Policy, and the Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council. He was the NEC’s "point person" on a wide range of technology and telecommunications issues, such as the liberalization of Cold War export controls, the allocation of spectrum for new wireless services, and investments in upgrading America’s high-tech workforce. He led a number of White House technology initiatives, such as the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the Next Generation Internet, bridging the digital divide, e-learning, increasing funding for long-term information technology research, making IT more accessible to people with disabilities, and addressing the growing imbalance between support for biomedical research and for the physical sciences and engineering. He was also appointed by President Clinton to serve on the G-8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (dot force).  Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley Physical Biosciences Division Director's Fellow, Department of Advanced Microscopies, LBNL Jan T. Liphardt received a B.A. degree from Reed College in 1996, and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1999. After 2 years of postdoctoral work in the Physics and Chemistry Depts. of UC Berkeley, he became the Divisional Fellow of the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He joined the Physics faculty in 2004.  Professor of Physics, Université de Montréal Michel Côté obtained a Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was under the supervision of Marvin Cohen. From 1998 to 2000, he was a research fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, England. He returned to Quebec in 2000 to take on a professor position at the Université de Montréal in the Physics Department. He received the Centennial NSERC scholarship for his Ph.D studies and a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. His expertise in the use of density functional theory to analyze and predict properties on novel systems. His research focuses on polymers for photovoltaic applications, superconductivity in fullerene crystals and in the high-Tc. As well as pursuing his professor and research duties, he is the site leader for the Réseau québécois de calcul de haute performance (RQCHP) at the Université de Montréal. Poster Session Judges  Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley Principal Investigator, Materials Science Division, LBNL After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University, Ali Javey joined the faculty of UC Berkeley in 2005 as an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. For the 2005-2006 academic year, he was on leave from Berkeley in order to serve as a Junior Fellow of the prestigious Harvard Society of Fellows. Professor Javey's research interests encompass the fields of chemistry, materials science, and electrical engineering, focusing on the integration of synthetic nano materials for various technological applications, including high performance nanoelectronics, flexible circuits and displays, and novel electronic sensors. To his credit, he has over 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature, Nature Materials, Physical Review Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His publications have been cited over 2000 times (ISI Web of Knowledge, 10/2007) in ~5 years. He has received a number of scientific awards, including the Peter Verhofstadt Fellowship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Graduate Student Gold Award from the Materials Research Society. Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley Physical Biosciences Division Director's Fellow, Department of Advanced Microscopies, LBNL Jan T. Liphardt received a B.A. degree from Reed College in 1996, and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1999. After 2 years of postdoctoral work in the Physics and Chemistry Depts. of UC Berkeley, he became the Divisional Fellow of the Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He joined the Physics faculty in 2004. Acting Director, Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility, Molecular Foundry, LBNL Jeffrey B. Neaton leads the Theory group at the Molecular Foundry in LBNL. Jeff received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 2000, under the guidance of Neil W. Ashcroft. After a departmental postdoc in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University, he joined the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2003. His current research interests center on computational nanoscience, in particular the development and application of methods for calculating the structural, spectroscopic, and transport properties of inorganic and molecular nanostructures, particularly at interfaces and contacts. Present areas of interest include the electronic properties of the metal-organic interface, hybrid silicon-organic interfaces, and single-molecule junctions; self-assembly; nanoparticle assemblies; photovoltaics; hydrogen storage; ultrathin epitaxial films of transition metal oxides, such as ferroelectrics and multiferroics; and structural and electronic phases of light elements under pressure.  Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, UC Davis David Horsley received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1998 for his work on the design and control of a microfabricated actuator for magnetic hard disk drives. Upon graduation, Dr. Horsley joined Dicon Fiberoptics, where he initiated the development of passive fiber-optics components based on MEMS technology. From 1999-2000, Dr. Horsley was a member of Hewlett Packard Laboratories, where he and his colleagues developed a MEMS-based storage device based on scanning probe technology. In 2000, Dr. Horsley joined start-up Onix Microsystems, where he was one of the core team that conceived and designed a large fiber-optic cross-connect switch based on optical beamsteering. Since July 2003, Dr. Horsley has been a member of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at UCD where he is continuing to work on precision-controlled micromechanical devices. Sponsors This event is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors: the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Nanosciences & Nanoengineering Institute, COINS (Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems) Chevron Molecular Diamond Technologies Hitachi Corporate Ventures and Hitachi High Technologies America UCB College of Chemistry, UCB College of Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of Physics Haas School of Business, Associated Students of the University of California Return to the main events page. |