Conference Program
 
Clusters, Nanocrystals & Nanostructures
August 3-8, 2003
Connecticut College
New London, CT

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmKICKOFF SESSION
Discussion Leader: James Heath (Cal Tech)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmPaul Alivisatos (UC Berkeley)
"Semiconductor Nanocrystal Based Solar Cells"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmRichard E. Smalley (Rice University)
"ENERGY"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmNANOSENSORS
Discussion Leader: Paul Barbara (University of Texas Austin)
9:00 am - 10:00 amChad Mirkin
"PCR - For Proteins Based on Nanoparticles with Biobarcodes"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amGeorge Gruner (nanomix)
"Nanoscale electronic devices as chemical and biosensors"
11:30 am - 12:15 pmCharlie Lieber (Harvard)
TBA
12:15 pmConference Photo
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I (Nanostructures)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmBIOLOGICAL / ENVIRONMENTAL NANOSTRUCTURES
Discussion Leader: Kevin Peters (Hewlett-Packard)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmHenry Hess (University of Washington)
"Powering nanodevices with biomolecular motors"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmVicki L. Colvin (Rice University)
"The health effects and toxicology of nanocrystalline particles"
9:30 pm - 10:30 pmPoster Session I (Nanostructures), continued
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmCHEMISTRY IN AND ON CLUSTERS
Discussion Leader: Mostafa El-Sayed (Georgia Tech)
9:00 am - 10:00 amA. Welford Castleman, Jr. (Pennsylvania State University)
"Cluster Reactions: Laying the Foundations for Cluster Assembled Materials"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amHans-Joachim Freund (Fritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaft)
"Chemistry on Deposited Nanostructures in Relation to Heterogeneous Catalysis"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmMichel Broyer (LASIM, University Lyon)
Mixed clusters: electric dipoles and susceptibilities, optical properties and dynamics
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I (Nanostructures), continued
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOSTRUCTURES
Discussion Leader: Oded Millo (Hebrew University)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmGilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro (LNLS, Brazil)
"g-Factor Engineering of Epitaxial Quantum Dots"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmHongkun Park (Harvard)
"Transport and Scanned Probe Investigation of Chemical Nanostructures"
9:30 pm - 10:30 pmPoster Session I (Nanostructures), continued
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmOPTICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOSTRUCTURES
Discussion Leader: Moungi Bawendi (MIT)
9:00 am - 10:00 amDavid Kelley (Kansas State University)
"Spectroscopy and Dynamics of GaSe and InSe Nanocrystals and Nanocrystal Aggregates"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amArtur Zrenner (University of Paterborn)
"Single quantum dot photodiodes"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmUlrike Woggon (Dortmund University)
"Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots: Decoherence and Radiative Lifetimes"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session II (Clusters & Nanocrystals)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmTHEORY FOR NANOSTRUCTURES
Discussion Leader: Hai-Ping Cheng (University of Florida)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmAlex Zunger (NREL)
"The formation and decay of excitons, biexcitons and charged excitons in quantum dots"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmMassimiliano DiVentra (Virginia Tech)
"Transport in nanostructures from first principles"
9:30 pm - 10:30 pmPoster Session II (Clusters & Nanocrystals), continued
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmPROPERTIES OF CLUSTERS
Discussion Leader: Ori Cheshnovsky (Tel Aviv University)
9:00 am - 10:00 amLouis Brus (Columbia University)
"Single Molecule Raman Spectroscopy at the Junctions of Large Ag Nanocrystals"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amLudger Woeste (Freie Universitat Berlin)
"How Reactive is Gold?"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmLai-Sheng Wang (Washington State University)
"Planar Clusters"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session II
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmQUANTUM INFORMATION
Discussion Leader: Leader's Name (Affiliation)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmLars Oberbeck (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
"Atom-scale fabrication towards a Si based quantum computer"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmAndrew Briggs (Oxford)
"Nanomaterials for quantum information]"
9:30 pm - 10:30 pmPoster Session II (Clusters & Nanocrystals), continued
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart