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| Sunday,
November 6, 2005 (Hilton Gaithersburg Hotel) |
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Academic-Industrial
Workshop (Pre-Conference) |
8:00am-4:15pm |
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Industrial
Physics Forum opening reception & dinner |
7:00-9:00pm |
| Monday,
November 7, 2005 (NIST) |
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Buses
depart Hilton Gaithersburg for NIST |
7:45am |
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Breakfast/Registration |
8:00am |
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Welcoming
Remarks |
9:00am |
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Marc
Brodsky, Executive Director and CEO, AIP |
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David
Seiler, Chief, Semiconductor Electronics Division,
NIST |
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Session: Advancing Infrastructure for Innovation |
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Moderator:
David Seiler, NIST |
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Infrastructure
for Innovation: The NIST Role in U.S. Competitiveness
William A. Jeffrey, Director,
NIST |
9:15am |
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Public
Safety & Security: Traditions and Challenges
Kathleen Higgins, Assistant
to the NIST Director for
Homeland Security |
10:00am |
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Nanotechnology
at NIST
Michael Postek,
Assistant to the NIST Director for Nanotechnology |
11:05am |
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Metrology
and Standards for Biosystems & Health
Linda Beth Schilling,
Director, Chemistry & Life Sciences, Advance Technology
Program, NIST |
11:45am |
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Technological
Innovation, NIST, and the U.S. Measurement System
Dennis Swyt, Director, U.S.
Measurement System Project, NIST
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12:25pm |
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Lunch |
1:00pm |
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Tours
of NIST Laboratories |
2:00-5:00pm |
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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.
(Click
here for detailed information) |
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Reception
& Dinner Banquet at NIST |
5:00-8:00pm |
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AIP
Industrial Applications of Physics Award Presentation
Sponsored
by: General Motors Corporation
Presented
to: William Edelstein, retired
from General Electric |
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Banquet
Speaker: William D. Phillips,
Nobel Laureate, NIST
Time,
Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe
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Buses
return to Hilton Gaithersburg |
8:00pm |
| Tuesday,
November 8, 2005 (NIST) |
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Buses
depart Hilton Gaithersburg for NIST |
7:15am |
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Breakfast/Registration |
7:30am |
Policy
Session: Government’s Role in Stimulating Nanotechnology
for Industry |
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Moderator:
Celia Merzbacher, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Naval
Research Laboratory |
8:00am |
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Nanotechnology
and Keynote Opportunities
Arden Bement, Director, NSF |
8:10am |
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Nanotechnology
at NSF
Mihail Roco, Senior
Advisor, Nanotechnology, NSF |
8:35am |
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Leveraging
Federal Investments in Biomedical Nanotechnology
Gregory Downing, Director,
Office of Technology and
Industrial
Relations, National Cancer Institute, NIH |
9:10am |
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Nanotechnology
and Nanotechnology at DOE
Altaf H. (Tof) Carim, Program
Manager, Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic
Energy Sciences, DOE
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9:45am |
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Nanotechnology
at DARPA
John Zolper, Director, Microsystems
Tech. Office, DARPA |
10:50am |
| Frontiers
in Physics Session |
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Cassini-Huygens:
Lifting Titan's Veil
Ralph Lorenz,
Professor, University of Arizona |
11:25am |
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The
Story of Stopped Light
Ronald Walsworth, Senior
Lecturer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
12:05pm |
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Lunch
12:45pm |
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Manipulating
Quantum Information with Semiconductor Spintronics
David Awschalom, Professor
of Physics, University of California |
1:40pm |
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Life
Has Evolved to Evolve
Michael W. Deem, John W. Cox
Professor, Rice University |
2:20pm |
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Adjourn |
3:00pm |
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