Nanostructures Seminar Series at MIT

Co-sponsored by The Nanostructures Lab, The Tiny Tech Club and Techlink

 

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Spring 2003 Calendar

 

Advances in Science and Technology Track 

These lectures are usually Wednesdays. However, we try to accommodate teaching schedules as necessary, and thus have some lectures on Tuesdays or Thursdays. 

 

Wednesdays Seminars: 5:00-6:30pm in 1-190  

Refreshments start at 4:45 


Thursday 16 January - Advances in Science and Technology Track

 

"Molecular Origins of Biocompatibility: Materials Design Issues and Challenges at the Nanoscale" by Professor Christine Ortiz (MIT)


Thursday 23 January - Advances in Science and Technology Track

 

No Speaker


Wednesday 29 January - Advances in Science and Technology Track

 

"Time Scales of Ion Beam Sculpting: Towards Building Nanopore Molecular Detectors for Rapid DNA Sequencing" by .Professor Jene A. Golovchenko (Harvard) -  


Thursday 6 February - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Plasmonics: Photonic Devices in Nanostructure Arrays that Beat the Diffraction Limit" by Professor Harry Atwater (Harvard) 


Tuesday 11 February - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Structure, Properties and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes" by Professor Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT)


Wednesday 19 February - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Stars, Diamonds and the ABC's of Self Assembly" Professor Edwin L Thomas (MIT)


Wednesday 26 February - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"NanoTectonics: Fabricating Logic and Machines from Nanoparticle Building Blocks" by Professor Joe Jacobson (MIT)


Thursday 6 March - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Applying Macro Machine Design Experience to Dinky Designs" by Professor Alexander Slocum (MIT)


Friday 7 March - Advances in Commercialization Track - E25-111, 1pm

Dr. Thomas Celluci (COO-Zyvex) 


Wednesday 12 March - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Liquids on Nanolandscapes" by Dr. Oleg Gang/Prof. Peter Pershan (Harvard


Wednesday 19 March - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Evolving Biomolecular Control and Assembly of Semiconductor and Magnetic Nanostructures" by Professor Angela Belcher (MIT)


Wednesday 26 March - Advances in Science and Technology Track

 No Lecture


Thursday 3 April - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications at  the Harvard Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center" by Professor Robert M. Westervelt (Harvard)


Thursday 10 April - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Control of Biomolecular Function by Nanometer Scale Antennas" by Professor Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli (MIT)

Research Group


Wednesday 16 April - Advances in Science and Technology Track

 "Tiny Product Design: Micro to Nano" by Professor Sang-Gook Kim (MIT) (Lecture will start at 4:30pm in 1-190) 


Wednesday 23 April - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"The 3rd Dimension in Nanoscale Fabrication and Sensing" by Professor George Barbastathis (MIT) (5pm. Room 1-190) - (See Events Page at Tinytech.org) 


Thursday 1 May - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"The Science of Biomolecular Electronics" by Professor Marc Baldo (MIT) (5pm. Room 1-190) 


Thursday 8 May - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Microfabricated Devices for Biomolecular Detection" by Professor Scott Manalis (MIT) of the Nanoscale Sensing Group at the MIT Media Lab  (5pm. Room 1-190) 


Wednesday 14 May - Advances in Science and Technology Track

"Nanostructures: Top down Meets Bottom up" by Professor Henry. Smith - Director, Nanostructures Lab (MIT) (5pm. Room 1-190) 

 

 
       
       
 
For further information about this series please contact Jose Pacheco, Tinytech Officer, at jpacheco@mit.edu 
 

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