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Welcome, Guest.  April 15th 2006, 8:30am to 5:30pm Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley The Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2006 (BNF 2006) features leading scientists, entrepreneurs, and academics, presenting their opinion on how in recent years nanotechnology has been living up to its promise. This event also addresses the current achievements and the possible directions that this amazing field is poised to take in the near future. Beyond exciting scientific and entrepreneurial opportunities, nanotechnology is offering tremendous life-transforming perspectives. Come and discover how to be part of this new era! Co-organisers for this event include Haas Energy Resources Collaborative and Berkeley Bio Business Association. Poster Session • Keynote Speakers • Other Speakers Directions • Sponsors • 2005 Recap Agenda Click here for the forum agenda. Welcome to BNF 2006! Welcome to UC Berkeley's leading nanotechnology event! This all-day forum on Saturday, April 15th is a great opportunity to learn more about the current realities of nanotechnology. 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 years forum is: nanotechnology: living up to the promise. Our prominent speakers and panelists will share their views on the promises of this amazing field , the current status of achievements and discuss the impact this field is poised to have on our everyday lives,not only in the near future, but also in the long term. This event also features a student poster session, showcasing the state-of-the-art research of the Bay area researchers and students in Nano Sciences and Nano Engineering. REGISTRATION IS CLOSED All the registrants are invited to join nanotechnology community for continental breakfast, lunch and reception, and will be provided with a free t-shirt. This event is free to all UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and LBNL personnel. The event starts at 8:30am and ends at 5:30pm. If have any questions about the forum or Club in general, please contact Bala Pesala for more information. Clicking this link will bring you to our contact page, where your message will be forwarded to him. About the Poster Session Thank you for your interest in the poster session. This is a great opportunity to showcase your research work in front of leading personalities in nano and share your exciting work with your fellow researchers. Participate in the poster session and enter a great chance to win exciting cash prizes (First Prize: $1000 , Second Prize $700 and third prize $300) and ipod-nano. At this point, the poster session registration is closed. However, if you have already submitted a poster please visit the poster session page on this web site for more information. Keynote Speakers  Director, Quantum Science Research, HP Labs Dr. Stan Williams is a Senior HP Fellow and founding director of the Quantum Science Research group, created in 1995 to prepare HP for the major challenges and opportunities ahead in electronic device technology as features continue to shrink to the nanometer size scale, where quantum mechanics becomes important. Dr. Williams most recent research has been in the areas of the production and processing of nanostructured materials. He currently leads nanostructures and quantum effects research at HP Labs, with the intention of providing a foundation for the device technology of the next century. He has received awards for scientific and academic achievement, including the 2000 Julius Springer Award for Applied Physics, the 2000 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and the Sloan Foundation Fellowship.  President and Director of Research, Lux Research Mr. Matthew Nordan is the President of Lux Research and heads the company's research organization. Lux Research serves as an indispensable advisor to corporations, start-ups, financial institutions, and governments seeking to exploit emerging technologies for competitive advantage. Mr. Nordan has been invited by news outlets including CNN and CNBC to comment on emerging technology markets and has been widely cited in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. Beyond the corporate sphere, he has testified before the U.S. Congress twice on nanotechnology issues, advised the Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative of the National Academies, and spoken on nanotechnology at universities including Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. Mr. Nordan is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where he conducted cognitive neuroscience research on the neural pathways mediating emotion and memory. Lead Speakers and Panelists Alexei A. Andreev Executive Vice President/Managing Director, Harris & Harris group Prior to joining Harris & Harris Group, Dr. Andreev was an associate with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a venture capital firm, where he was exclusively focused on nanotechnology and material science investment opportunities. While at DFJ, he played an integral role in sourcing and funding of Solicore, D-Wave Systems, Intematix and EoPlex, where he served as an active Board Director or Observer. Previously, he worked for TLcom Capital Partners, a London-based venture capital fund backed by Morgan Stanley. Before he started his business career, Dr. Andreev was a researcher at the Centre of Nanotechnology, ISAN (RAS), in Troitsk, Russia where he was focused on optical and electrical properties of Quantum Dot heterostructures in strong magnetic fields. Dr. Andreev received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Theoretical Physics of Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute led by Alexei A. Abrikosov (recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2003). Dr. Andreev also received a B.S. with honors in Engineering/Material Sciences from Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute and with an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Phaedon Avouris Manager, NanoScale Science and Technology, IBM Dr. Phaedon Avouris is an IBM Fellow and manager of Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. He is also Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Avouris has published over 300 scientific papers. He has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the IBM Academy of Technology and many more prestigious societies. He received the Irving Langmuir Prize of the American Physical Society, the Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society, the Feynman Prize for Molecular Nanotechnology, the ACSIN Nanoscience Prize, the Raper Award of IEEE, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Michigan State University, and a number of IBM Corporation "Outstanding Technical Achievement" awards. He is co-editor of the Springer-Verlag book series on Nanoscience and is currently serving on the Advisory Editorial Boards of several leading journals in nanotechnology. Dr. Avouris received his B. S. degree from the Aristotelian University in Greece in 1968 and his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Michigan State University in 1975. After postdoctoral work at UCLA and AT&T Bell Laboratories he joined the Research Division of IBM in 1978. Laura Mazzola CEO, Excellin Life Sciences Inc Dr. Mazzola has over twelve years of experience in the biotechnology industry, from fundamental research and technology development to the commercialization of integrated instrumentation platforms. She is CEO for Excellin Life Sciences, a start-up with devices for cell engineering. She founded and chairs NanoBioConvergence in the SF Bay Area. Dr. Mazzola was an early employee at Affymax and Affymetrix, developing the high-density array technology that became the prototype for the revolutionary GeneChip(TM) product line. More recently, she helped reorient business development at Symyx Technologies toward the Life Sciences through collaborations with Merck and Eli Lilly and licensed their first commercial product, which won the Frost & Sullivan 2002 Market Engineering Technology Innovation Award. Dr. Mazzola received a B.S. from Kalamazoo College and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Erik Straser General Partner, MDV Mr. Erik Straser joined MDV in 1998 and specializes in investing in and building energy, materials and software companies. Prior to MDV Mr. Straser worked at Interval Research Corp., a technology incubator funded by Paul Allen, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a technical staff member. He also consulted to several seed and early stage venture capital firms. While pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at Stanford, Mr. Straser led an interdisciplinary project between the electrical, mechanical, and civil engineering departments to develop a next-generation monitoring system for critical facilities. He holds a U.S. patent from his research work. From 1996 to 1998, he served as president of the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students (BASES), Stanford's largest student group focused on entrepreneurship and technology management. BNF06 will also feature Loucas Tsakalakos, Project leader and Staff Scientist, General Electric - Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY ; Craig Horne, Director of Electrochemical Applications, NanoGram ; Jeffrey Bokor, Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley ; Arun Majumdar, Professor in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley ; Gregory J. Downing, Director of Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, National Cancer Institute ; James S. Murday, Superintendent of Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, and Executive Secretary, National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Nanometer Science Engineering and Technology ; Lydia Sohn, Professor in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley ; Christian Valcke, Vice President, Research and Development, Nanomix ; Tom Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor, UC Berkeley. Driving Directions The Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2006 is held at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Please find below links to driving directions and parking options: Click here for driving directions & access by BART. We will have parking spots reserved for the event’s attendees at the Kleeberger Field parking lot, facing the upper entrance of the Haas School of Business (Cronk Gate). Alternatively you may want to use the additional parking structures near UC Berkeley. Click here for map of the Kleeberger Field parking lot. Click here for maps of additional parking structures near UC Berkeley. Sponsors This event is made possible by our strategic sponsor: the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, along with our academic sponsors at UC Berkeley: Berkeley Nanosciences & Nanoengineering Institute, Management of Technology program, College of Chemistry, Berkeley College of Engineering, College of Letters & Science, Berkeley Department of Physics Haas School of Business, CITRIS, and the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. 
BNF 2005 Recap The Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum 2005 (BNF 2005) featured leading scientists, entrepreneurs, and academics, presenting on how nanotechnology is poised to revolutionize our near future by impacting the “triple bottom line”: business, society, and the environment. Click on the graphic banner below for more information.  Return to the main events page. |