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Welcome, Guest.  Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BNF 2009 Registration The 2009 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum will feature speakers on molecular engineering, renewable energy, nanoelectronics, health care, and the business and public policy of nanotechnology, as well as distinguished speakers such as A poster session rounds out the agenda. Poster Session Researchers working in the area of nanoscience or nanoengineering are invited to present their research at the 2009 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 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). In order to present your research at the Forum, send a title, author list, affiliations, and an abstract to Ze'ev Abrams by FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009 Extended Deadline!. Please do not exceed 250 words. For more information, please visit the 2009 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum page. Poster Session • Keynote Speakers • Panelists/Speakers • Poster Session Judges Sponsors Agenda Click here for the forum agenda and posted presentations. Welcome to BNF 2009! Welcome to UC Berkeley's leading nanotechnology event! This all-day forum on Sunday, April 26 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: Solutions for Tomorrow. In addition to prominent speakers, 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 2009 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 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). In order to present your research at the Forum, send a title, author list, affiliations, and an abstract to Ze'ev Abrams by FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009 Extended Deadline!. Please do not exceed 250 words. Keynote Speakers  Chief Technical Advisor, Nanorex Often described as “the father of nanotechnology,” Eric Drexler set the technical direction for the field in his seminal 1981 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which established fundamental principles of molecular engineering and development paths to advanced nanotechnologies. In his 1986 book, Engines of Creation, he introduced a broad audience to the fundamental technology objective: using machines that work at the molecular scale to restructure matter from the bottom up. Drexler’s research in this field has been the basis for numerous journal articles and a comprehensive, physics-based analysis in his textbook Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation. In his publications and lectures, Dr. Drexler describes the implementation and applications of advanced nanotechnologies and shows how they can be used solve, not merely delay, large-scale problems such as global warming. Dr. Drexler serves as Chief Technical Advisor to Nanorex, a company developing design software for molecular engineering. In addition, he writes about nanotechnology and other topics on his blog, Metamodern.com. He is currently working in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund of Sweden to explore advanced nanotechnology solutions to global issues such as energy and climate change. Recently, Drexler served as Chief Technical Consultant to the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems, a project of the Battelle Memorial Institute and its participating US National Laboratories. Drexler was awarded a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Molecular Nanotechnology (the first degree of its kind).  IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center Dr. Don Eigler is a physicist who specializes in studying the physics of surfaces and nanometer-scale structures. In late 1989, using the liquid-helium-temperature scanning tunneling microscope that he had built, Dr. Eigler demonstrated for the first time the ability to build structures at the atomic level by spelling out "I-B-M" with individual xenon atoms. Since then, Dr. Eigler has led an active group of scientists in a series of experiments aimed at extending basic knowledge about the physics of atomic-scale structures and exploring the potential for atomic-scale logic and data-storage technologies. The group's results include discovering that magnetic impurity atoms alter the electronic structure of superconductors over a surprisingly short range, measuring for the first time how electrical conductance through single- and double-atom wires varies with element, inventing a new kind of electron trap called a "quantum corral," demonstrating the ability to image electron density waves on metal surfaces, and inventing an atomic-scale switch. Dr. Eigler was educated at the University of California at San Diego, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics (1975) and a doctorate in physics (1984). He was a Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories for two years before joining IBM as a Research Staff Member in 1986. In 1993, Dr. Eigler was named an IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor in the corporation. Dr. Eigler is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1990, he received the Grand Award for Science and Technology in Popular Science magazine's Best of What's New competition. His group received the '93-'94 Newcomb Cleveland Prize given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the best paper published in Science magazine that academic year. He was the Alexander Cruickshank Lecturer in Physical Science at the 1994 Gordon Research Conferences. In 1995, the Goettingen Academy of Sciences in Germany awarded Dr. Eigler the Dannie Heineman Prize, which is awarded biennially for distinguished scientific achievements in natural science. In 1998, Dr. Eigler was named the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year by the University of California at San Diego Alumni Association. In 1999, he became the first winner of the Nanoscience Prize, which he received at the Fifth International Conference on Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Interfaces, and Nanostructures. Speakers and Panelists  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.  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.  Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis; Affiliate Faculty, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center M. Saif Islam received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. Before joining UC Davis in 2004 as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Islam worked at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Gazillion Bits Inc. and SDL Inc./JDS Uniphase Corporation as a Staff Scientist, Senior Scientist and Post Doctoral Research Fellow. He also served as an adjunct faculty member with the ECE department of San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal and conference papers, edited eight books and conference proceedings and holds 8 patents with more than 30 pending patents as an inventor or a co-inventor. Dr. Islam's work has covered a broad variety of topics: molecular electronic devices, synthesis, device applications and CMOS integration of semiconductor nanowires, ultra-fast optoelectronic devices, high-power and linear gain-clamped semiconductor optical amplifiers, fiber optical communication systems, and RF photonic devices and links. He was the first to demonstrate the velocity-matched distributed balanced photodetectors with a record high linear photocurrents and an ultra-fast response. He also worked on the first demonstration of ultra-fast resonant cavity enhanced (RCE) Schottky photodiodes. Dr. Islam developed the technique for generating ultra-smooth metal surfaces for interfacing molecular electronic devices that dramatically helped improve the yield of molecular switching junctions fabricated with self-assembled monolayers of molecules. He demonstrated the first Si nanowire bridging technique which solves the longstanding issue of interfacing one-dimensional semiconductor nanodevices. Currently, Professor Islam's interests focus at two interrelated areas of nano-engineering - massively parallel incorporation of low-dimensional nanowire devices with conventional IC elements, employing processes compatible with mass-manufacturing for potential applications in bio-chemical sensing, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, memory and logic devices for future computing and development of nano-structured devices capable of creating, manipulating and detecting photons on a silicon surface. In order to control the properties of light, his group study a new class of materials, called "negative index materials" that demonstrate unusual electric and magnetic properties not available in nature and offer opportunities for unprecedented functionalities in virtually every area of optics and photonics. He develops new methods and tools for constructing three-dimensional negative index materials using manufacturable nanofabrication techniques and study theoretical and experimental schemes that allow us to switch the refractive index of materials between positive and negative values to enable the design of new optical devices beyond what nature can offer. Dr. Islam's honors and awards include Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award, Professor of the Year 2005 (IEEE Davis Chapter), University of California Chancellor's Fellowship; IEEE Laser and Electro-Optic Society (IEEE/LEOS) Fellowship (2000); Student of the Year (1988) and the President's Award from the President of the Republic of Bangladesh (1989). He has served as the chairs of several international SPIE and MRS sponsored conferences on nanoscale sensors and devices and negative index materials and served as a guest editor for special issues of the International Journal of Nanotechnology (special issue on nanosensors) and Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing (special issue on metamaterials) and as an associate editor of Journal of Nanophotonics.  Senior Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center Jing Li received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1996 from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Following her doctoral studies, she was a post-doctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories. After that, she was the lead scientist at Cyrano Sciences where she developed an electronic nose from concept to a commercial product in two years. The product was launched in 2000. Dr. Li is currently a Senior Scientist/Principle Investigator at NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology where she directed the development of a first nanodevice in a system format that was launched in March 2007 and successfully flying in space for chemical detection. This nano chemical sensor unit (NCSU) system is aboard a Navy satellite, Midstar-1. She led the project of NCSU that won 2007 NASA Ames Honor award. She worked with a team at NASA on nanoelectronic devices that resulted in a NASA TGIR (Turning Goals into Reality) Award (2002). Dr. Li has 2 Patents awarded and 8 are pending, and she has authored 22 technical publications and has presented on numerous occasions by invitation at international and national events. She is currently a vice chair of Sensor Division in the Electrochemical Society (ECS).  Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics, Stanford University Dr. Michael D. McGehee, co-Principal Investigator of the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltiacs (CAMP), is an associate professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University. His research interests are patterning materials at the nanometer length scale, semiconducting polymers, and solar cells. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. degree in materials science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he did research on polymer lasers in the lab of Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger. He has won an NSF CAREER Award, a Dupont Young Professor Award, a Henry and Camille Dreyfus New Faculty Award, the 2007 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, and the Mohr Davidow Innovators Award.  Director of Research, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology Chris Phoenix, co-founder and Director of Research, has studied nanotechnology for more than 20 years. He obtained his BS in Symbolic Systems and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1991. From 1991 to 1997, he worked as an embedded software engineer at Electronics for Imaging. In 1997, he left the software field to concentrate on dyslexia correction and research. Since 2000 he has focused on studying and writing about molecular manufacturing. Chris is a published author in nanotechnology and nanomedical research, and maintains close contacts with many leading researchers in the field. Chris lives in California.  Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley Professor Junqiao Wu received a B.S. from Fudan University and a M.S. from Peking University, China, both in physics. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Applied Science and Technology from the University of California, Berkeley for work on nitride semiconductors and highly mismatched semiconductor alloys. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, he worked on phase transitions in transition metal oxide nanomaterials. He began his faculty appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in July, 2006. His honors include the Berkeley Fellowship and the 29th Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award. The Wu group explores novel properties and applications of correlated electron materials with reduced dimensions, phase transitions at the nanometer scale, and optoelectronics and photovoltaics of semiconductor nanostructures.  Professor of Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz The Zhang research group is primarily interested in the design, development, characterization, and application of advanced materials with emphasis on optical and electronic nanomaterials of both semiconductors, metal oxides, and metals. These nanomaterials have novel physical and chemical properties due to quantum confinement and exceedingly large surface to volume ratio. The design and synthesis of the materials are mostly based on inorganic colloidal chemistry methods. The synthesized materials are characterized systematically and extensively using a variety of experimental techniques including optical spectroscopy (UV-visible, fluorescence, IR, and Raman), femtosecond laser spectroscopy (for probing ultrafast charge carrier dynamics), x-ray (XAFS, XRD, x-ray photoemission), electrochemical, and microscopy (HRTEM, SEM, AFM). In the meantime, we explore emerging technological applications of these advanced nanomaterials in areas such as solar energy conversion, hydrogen generation and storage, photocatalysis, photovoltaics, photoelectrochemistry, sensors and imaging (particularly based on SERS), detection of cancer biomarkers, solid state lighting, and lasers. Poster Session Judges  Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley; Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, LBNL In 2002, Seung-Wuk Lee, then a graduate student, at the University of Texas at Austin, developed a novel method to self-assemble various semiconductor nanoparticles into precisely ordered structures by exploiting genetically engineered viruses. Viruses were engineered to recognize specific semiconductor material surfaces and evolved to organize any nano-sized object into periodically ordered structures, which might be useful to construct next generation opto-electronic materials and devices. Now as an assistant professor at the Bioengineering, University of California, he is deciphering the secret of evolution of bone associated proteins. Recently, his team has isolated a series of functional peptides to recognize different surfaces of hydroxyapatite crystals (inorganic component of bone) through a bench-top evolution processes called phage display. Surprisingly, the specific binding peptides against hydroxyapatite match with collagen and many other bone associated proteins. He is further working toward the development of protein-based nanomaterials that could regenerate bone tissue and their unique properties to cure bone related diseases. In addition, based on these virus-based techniques, he is developing a general concept termed Virotronics, which exploit the unique properties of genetically-engineered viruses to carry information to build functional medical and electronic materials and devices.  Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley; Faculty Scientist, National Center for Electron Microscopy, LBNL Andrew Minor graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics and Mechanical Engineering in 1997, and completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000 and 2002, respectively. After completing his Ph.D., he became a staff scientist at the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. In 2008 he joined the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently holds a joint appointment with UCB and LBL. Prof. Minor's research group uses advanced electron microscopy-based characterization to investigate both organic and inorganic materials. Their focus is on nanomechanical size effects, characterization of soft materials, and novel in situ TEM methods for materials science research.  Staff Scientist, Inorganic Nanostructures Facility, Molecular Foundry, LBNL Taleb Mokari is a Staff Scientist in the Inorganic Nanostructures Facility at the Molecular Foundry. Dr. Mokari specializes in the synthesis and characterization of different forms of nanocrystals. Dr. Mokari studied under Prof. Uri Banin at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Peidong Yang at UC Berkeley.  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. 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. |