Physics and the Future Economy

March 17-19, 2013

In partnership with the APS Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics

Session I: Industrial Physics Forum: Innovation and Entrepeneurship

Sunday, March 17, 2013, 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Convention Center, Ballroom IV
Moderator:: John Rumble (Chair), R and R Data Services

2:30 pm – 3:06 pm

DARPA Loves its Physicists
Robert Colwell, DARPA

3:06 pm – 3:42 pm

NASA Technology Investments: Building America's Future
Mason Peck, NASA

3:42 pm – 4:18 pm

Innovation Driver: Nanoelectronics
Hubert Lakner, Fraunhofer-Institut fur Photonische Mikrosysteme

4:18 pm - 4:54 pm

Physics and Entrepreneurship: A Small Business Perspective
Jason Cleveland, Asylum Research

4:54 pm – 5:30 pm

Physics and Innovation: A Large Company Perspective
Bob Doering, Texas Instruments

Session II: Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers in Physics

Monday, March 18, 2013, 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Convention Center, Ballroom IV
Moderator: David Seiler (Chair), NIST

8:00 am – 8:36 am

Has the Higgs Boson Been Discovered? Latest Results from the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
Michael Tuts, Columbia University

8:36 am – 9:12 am

Entangled Magnetism: Synthesis, Detection, and Potential Applications
Collin Broholm, NIST

9:12 am – 9:48 am

Quantum Computing
Matthias Steffen, IBM

9:48 am – 10:24 am

Catching the Light: The Giant Magellan Telescope
Daniel Fabricant, Harvard

10:24 am – 11:00 am

Frontiers of the Physics of Carbon Nanotubes
Millie Dresselhaus, MIT

Session III: Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers in Nanomanufacturing

Monday, March 18, 2013, 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Convention Center, Ballroom IV
Moderator: Robert Celotta (Chair), NIST

2:30 pm – 3:06 pm

Frontiers of Nanomanufacturing: An Overview
James Alexander Liddle, NIST

3:06 pm – 3:42 pm

New Computing Devices and the Drive toward Nanometer-scale Manufacturing
Thomas Theis, SRC Nanoelectronics Research Institute

3:42 pm – 4:18 pm

Atomic Scale Electronics
Michelle Simmons, University of New South Wales

4:18 pm – 4:54 pm

Nanoscale Construction with DNA
Shawn Douglas, University of California at San Francisco

4:54 pm – 5:30 pm

Manufacturing for Terawatt-Scale Energy Applications
Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology

Session IV: Industrial Physics Forum: Frontiers of Biophysics

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 8:00 am - 11:00 am
Convention Center, Ballroom IV
Moderator:     James Hollenhorst (Chair), Agilent

8:00 am – 8:36 am

Biophysical Variables Which are Available from Single Molecule Optical Studies
W. E. Moerner, Stanford University

 

8:36 am – 9:12 am

Accounting for Conformational Flexibility When Targeting Proteins
Sara Nichols, University of California San Diego

 

9:12 am – 9:48 am

Frontiers in Biophysics: Synthetic Biology
Adam Arkin, Synthethic Biology Institute; University of California

9:48 am – 10:24 am

Single Molecule and Single Cell Sensing with Nanomechanical Systems
Michael Roukes, California Institute of Technology

10:24 am – 11:00 am

Cytometry and Atomic Mass Spectrometry Converge in Single Cell Deep Profiling of the Human Immune System
Scott Tanner, DVS Sciences and University of Toronto