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 Sunday, November 6, 2005 (Hilton Gaithersburg Hotel)  
  Academic-Industrial Workshop (Pre-Conference) 8:00am-4:15pm
  Industrial Physics Forum opening reception & dinner 7:00-9:00pm
 Monday, November 7, 2005 (NIST)  
  Buses depart Hilton Gaithersburg for NIST 7:45am
  Breakfast/Registration 8:00am
  Welcoming Remarks 9:00am
    Marc Brodsky, Executive Director and CEO, AIP  
    David Seiler, Chief, Semiconductor Electronics Division, NIST  
 Theme Session: Advancing Infrastructure for Innovation
  Moderator: David Seiler, NIST  
    Infrastructure for Innovation:  The NIST Role in U.S. Competitiveness
William A. Jeffrey
, Director, NIST
9:15am
    Public Safety & Security: Traditions and Challenges
Kathleen Higgins
, Assistant to the NIST Director for
Homeland Security
10:00am 
    Nanotechnology at NIST
Michael Postek
, Assistant to the NIST Director for Nanotechnology
11:05am
    Metrology and Standards for Biosystems & Health
Linda Beth Schilling
, Director, Chemistry & Life Sciences, Advance Technology Program, NIST
11:45am
    Technological Innovation, NIST, and the U.S. Measurement System
Dennis Swyt
, Director, U.S. Measurement System Project, NIST
12:25pm
  Lunch 1:00pm
  Tours of NIST Laboratories  2:00-5:00pm
   

Highlights include the new Advanced Measurement Laboratory, and research laboratories in the areas of Quantum Computing, Nanomanufacturing and Nanometrology, Bioscience and Health Care, and other emerging technologies.

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  Reception & Dinner Banquet at NIST 5:00-8:00pm
   

AIP Industrial Applications of Physics Award Presentation

Sponsored by: General Motors Corporation

Presented to: William Edelstein, retired from General Electric

 
   

Banquet Speaker:  William D. Phillips, Nobel Laureate, NIST

Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe

 
  Buses return to Hilton Gaithersburg 8:00pm
 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 (NIST)
  Buses depart Hilton Gaithersburg for NIST 7:15am
  Breakfast/Registration 7:30am
 Policy Session: Government’s Role in Stimulating Nanotechnology
  for Industry
  Moderator: Celia Merzbacher, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Naval Research Laboratory 8:00am
    Nanotechnology and Keynote Opportunities
Arden Bement
, Director, NSF
8:10am
    Nanotechnology at NSF
Mihail Roco,
Senior Advisor, Nanotechnology, NSF
8:35am
   

Leveraging Federal Investments in Biomedical Nanotechnology
Gregory Downing
, Director, Office of Technology and

Industrial Relations, National Cancer Institute, NIH

9:10am 
   

Nanotechnology and Nanotechnology at DOE
Altaf H. (Tof) Carim
, Program Manager, Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, DOE

9:45am 
    Nanotechnology at DARPA
John Zolper
, Director, Microsystems Tech. Office, DARPA
10:50am
 Frontiers in Physics Session
    Cassini-Huygens: Lifting Titan's Veil
Ralph Lorenz
, Professor, University of Arizona
11:25am
    The Story of Stopped Light
Ronald Walsworth
, Senior Lecturer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
12:05pm
    Lunch                                                                                              12:45pm
    Manipulating Quantum Information with Semiconductor Spintronics
David Awschalom
, Professor of Physics, University of California
1:40pm
    Life Has Evolved to Evolve
Michael W. Deem
, John W. Cox Professor, Rice University
2:20pm
  Adjourn 3:00pm