Nanoscience: Underlying Physical Concepts and Phenomena
Organized by John T. Yates, Jr., Phaedon Avouris and George Whitesides
May 18-20, 2001
Washington, DC
Day 1:
Session I: Proximal Probes
John T. Yates, Jr., Moderator
Atom and molecule manipulation with the STM
Karl H. Rieder, University of Berlin
Single Molecule Vibrational Spectroscopy and Microscopy
Wilson Ho, UC Irvine
Nano-scale Studies of Quantum Phenomena by Scanning Probe Spectroscopy
Roland Wiesendanger, Hamburg University
Session II: Optical Techniques
Wilson Ho, Moderator
Single molecule spectroscopy
Sunney Xie, Harvard University
Fluorescence of deposited nanoclusters using the STM
Hans-Joachim Freund, University of Berlin
Session III: Quantum Dots & Clusters
Phaedon Avouris, Moderator
Optical properties of nanoclusters
Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley
The Non-Scalable Regime: Electronic Structure, Fluid Flow, and Nanocatalysis
Uzi Landman, Georgia Tech
Single Molecule Raman Spectra on Large Ag Nanocrystals
Louis Brus, Columbia University
Experimental studies of the electronic structure and interactions in Quantum Dots
Leo Kouwenhoven, University of Deft
Interesting Photophysical and Photothermal Properties of Gold Nanorods
Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Georgia Tech
Quantum Dot memory devices
Stephen Chou, Princeton University
Nanoscale Fluctuations on Solid Surfaces
Ellen Williams, University of Maryland
Day 2:
Keynote Presentation
Mildred S. Dresselhaus, MIT
Day 3:
Session III: Quantum Dots & Clusters (continued)
Phaedon Avouris, Moderator
Stability of assembled cluster islands and fractal fragmentation
Catherine Brechignac, CNRS
Towards molecular logic machines
Raphael Levine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Synthesis and magnetic properties of nanoclusters
Christopher Murray, IBM
Session IV: Nanowires, Molecular Wires, and Devices
Charles Lieber, Moderator
One-dimensional electrons: from centimeters to nanometers
Johannes Voit, University of Beyreuth
Carbon nanotubes: transport and electronic devices
Phaedon Avouris, IBM
Modeling molecular electronic devices
Mark Ratner, Northwestern University
Carbon Nanotubes: A Thermal Electric Nano-nose
Peter Ecklund, Pennsylvania State University
Nanowire and Nanotube Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Charles Lieber, Harvard University
Molecular electronics
Mark Reed, Yale University
Molecular devices and computing
James R. Heath, UCLA
First-principles calculations of the conductance of molecules
Norton Lang, IBM
Session V: Nanostructure Synthesis and Self-Assembly
Mark Ratner, Moderator
Lithography for rapid device fabrication
George Whitesides, Harvard University
Nanostructures and Devices Assembled from DNA
Nadrian Seeman, NYU
Evolving Biomolecular Control of Semiconductor and Magnetic Nanostructures
Angela Belcher, University of Texas, Austin
