TinyTech Events

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TinyTech Club Activities

Although our club is young, we have already run a half-dozen substantial events – guest speakers, dinner receptions, entrepreneurship gatherings, and the like – and we have a rich line-up for this year. We hope you will both consider attending as well as helping organize some of these activities!

· Speaker Series – This year we are hosting several IAP, Spring and Fall lecture series, such as the Nanostructures Seminar Series, co-sponsored with the Nanostructures Lab and Techlink and the Tiny Business Lectures at Sloan. These lectures fall into three main categories.

§ Detailed technical lectures designed to share research and development accomplishments of scientists and engineers across disciplines.

§ Overview discussions that provide basic technical information to interested students from within the MIT community.

§ Business Enterprise Talks that address entrepreneurship, business development, venture and commercialization of ‘tiny’ scientific discoveries.

· Dinner Soirees & Tech Dinner Talks – Active club members periodically organize dinner gatherings for a broad cross-section of MIT community-members working on TinyTech related research and development. Our most recent dinner gatherings were in the Winter of 2002/2003 and were attended by some 50-100 people each, including several MIT & Harvard faculty.

· TinyTech Venture SIG – In coordination with the MIT Sloan Entrepreneurs and the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition ( http://50k.mit.edu/ ), and with the support of Professors Murray, Jacobson, and Afeyan, we are rallying a Special Interest Group (SIG) will all students & teams interested in a TinyTech-related business plan Executive Summary entry in the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition’s Fall Semester $1K Warm-Up ( http://50k.mit.edu/docs/MIT$1KEntrantReport.pdf ).

· Sign-Ups – Those interested in attending or participating in TinyTech activities should check the website ( http://web.mit.edu/tinytech ) for upcoming events and attend them!

· Lab Tours – Tinytech sponsors several tours of laboratories at MIT and Harvard. Past tours have included:

December 10,2002: A Lab tour of the Nanoscale Electronics Laboratory at Boston University. Nanoscale electronics is a developing field in which circuitry is composed of nanometer-sized electronic components. This cutting edge technology has the potential to revolutionize electronics and computing by creating components that are smaller, faster, and more efficient than current technology. The folks at the Nanoscale Electronics

November 20, 2002: An off-campus tour of a MEMS company, IntelliSense, to see their design lab and to view a presentation by the company.

2003-2004 Tiny Technology Speaker Schedule

2003 Fall Schedule

Lunchtime Enterprise Lectures - Advances in Commercialization

NanoStructures Lecture Series 2003-2004 - For More Detailed Information Click Here

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	Thurs 13 Nov, Dimitri Antoniadis, Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT, SMA Seminar Series on Advanced Materials for Micro-and Nano-Systems, Room 66-110, 4:00pm. Refreshments served at 3:45 pm. Click here for poster.
	Wed 3 Dec – Thomas Klar, Room 34-401B, 5:00 pm. Refreshments served at 4:45 pm.
	Wed 10 Dec – Caroline Ross, MIT, Room 34-401B, 5:00 pm. Refreshments served at 4:45 pm.

2002-2003 Tiny Technology Speaker Schedule

2003 Spring Schedule

Lunchtime Enterprise Lectures - Advances in Commercialization

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	March 5 - Andrey J. Zarur, CEO, BioProcessors Corp.
	March 7 - Tom Cellucci, Ph.D., MBA, Chief Operating Officer, Zyvex Corporation Zyvex Guest Attendees: George Skidmore, Ph.D., Manager, Design Engineering Group Robert Folaron, Manager, Control Engineering Group

Tiny Tech Dinner Talks

	February 18 - Moungi Bawendi, W. M. Keck Professor of Energy, MIT
	April 8 – Charles Harris, Chairman and CEO, Harris and Harris Group, Inc.
	April 29 - Cherie Kagan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Collaborations

	February 28 - International Nanotech Opportunities: The case of Switzerland - SHARE Boston Consulate of Switzerland http://www.shareboston.org/events/20030228Nanotech/Nanotech.html
	March 10 - An Ignition Forum on Portable Energy - The Deshpande Center and TechLink

Technology Panels

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April - Perspectives on Funding Scientific Research - Details TBA soon!

NanoStructures Lecture Series 2003

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	Thur Jan 16th – Christine Ortiz, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
	Wed Jan 29th – Jene Golovchenko, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics, Harvard University
	Thur Feb 6th – Harry Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science California Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor, Harvard University
	Wed Feb 12th – Mildred Dresselhaus, Institute Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, MIT
	Wed Feb 19th – Edwin L Thomas, Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Director, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, MIT
	Wed Feb 26^th – Joe Jacobson, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
	Thur March 6th – Alexander Slocum, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
	Wed March 12^th- Peter Pershan, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University, Dr. Oleg Gang, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
	Wed March 19th – Angela Belcher, John Chipman Career Development Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, MIT
	Thur April 3rd – Robert M. Westervelt, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics, Harvard University
	Thur April 10th – Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Homer A. Burnell Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering, MIT
	Wed April 16th – Sang-Gook Kim, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
	Wed April 23rd – George Barbastathis, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
	Thur May 1st – Marc Baldo, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT
	Thur May 8th – Scott Manalis, Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, NEC Career Development Professor of Computers and Communications, MIT
	Wed May 14th – Henry Smith, Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering , Director, Nanostructures Laboratory, MIT

2002 Accomplishments

· 11/26/2002 – Peter Seeberger, Firmenich Associate Professor of Chemistry, MIT – event co-sponsored with Swiss House for Advanced Research and Education

· 11/14/2002 - Greg Schmergel, CEO, Nantero, Inc.

· 11/06/2002 – Dr. Steve Empedocles, Director Business Development, Nanosys, Inc.

· 11/01/2002 – NanoLink - Co-hosted with TechLink in Walker Memorial.

· 10/15/2002 – Dr. Carmichael Roberts - Co-Founder and President Surfacelogix

· 9/10/2002 - Mildred Dresselhaus - Institute Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, MIT

· August 2002 – Reception for Alex Slocum, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT - co-sponsor

· July 2002 – Summer soiree with graduate students from Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Media Lab and Sloan

· June 2002 – Swiss House reception for visiting Swiss nanotechnologists and Charles Lieber, Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University – co-sponsor

· TinyTech Venture SIG – In coordination with the MIT Sloan Entrepreneurs and the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, and with the support of Professors Murray, Jacobson, and Afeyan, we organized a Special Interest Group (SIG) with all students & teams interested in a TinyTech-related business plan Executive Summary entry in the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition’s Fall Semester $1K Warm-Up.