NSF Workshop on Self-Assembled
Architectures
April 21-23, 2004 Cliff Lodge,
Snowbird, UT
Co-Located
with Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices
(FNANO)
Sponsorship: Directorate for Computer and Information Science and
Engineering (CISE),
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Workshop coChairs: John H. Reif <
>
Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 919-660-6568, and
K. Birgitta
Whaley <whaley@socrates.berkeley.edu>, Dept of Chemistry, University
of California, Berkeley, CA
Preliminary Schedule:
Conference
Reception: Eagle Cliff Room (7:00
PM-9:00 PM April 20)
Breakaway
NSF Workshop Track Discussions
over dinner at the Golden
Cliff Room (6:45 PM-8:00 PM April 21)
NSF Workshop on Self-Assembled Architectures,
Evening Session
A at Eagle Cliff Room:
Solicitation of Ideas
for New Research Challenges in
Self-Assembled Nanostructures (8:00
PM-9:00 PM April 21)
coChairs:
John H. Reif
<reif@cs.duke.edu>, Duke University and
K. Birgitta Whaley <whaley@socrates.berkeley.edu>,
Dept of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Greetings
& Overview: John H. Reif (8:00 PM-8:05
PM April 21)
Dessert (8:05 –8:30 PM)
Open
Session on Proposals for New Research Challenges in Self-Assembled
Nanostructures Led by NSF Workshop Panel (8:05 PM-9:30 PM April 21)
Executive Meeting Dinner for Track Chairs: (6:00 PM-6:30 PM April 22)
Agenda: Topics for NSF Programs in Self-Assembled
Nanostructures
NSF Workshop on Self-Assembled Architectures, Evening Session
B:
Overviews of Study Group Reports (8:00 PM-9:00 PM April 22)
Greetings
& Overview: John H. Reif, NSF Workshop
coChair (8:00 PM-8:05 PM April 21)
Dessert (8:05
PM-8:30 PM April 22)
Overviews by Track Chairs of Study Group Reports on Topics for NSF Programs in Self-Assembled
Nanostructures (8:05 PM-9:00 PM
April 22)
Each
Track Chair will give a 5-minute presentation
of New Research Challenges Ideas in their Track area:
-Principles
and Theory of Self-Assembly (Leonard
Adleman)
-Molecular
Self-Assembly (Nadrian
Seeman)
-Self-Assembled
Molecular Electronic Quantum Devices (James R.
Heath)
-Self-Assembled
Molecular Electronics & Quantum Architectures (Philip J. Kuekes
& R. Stanley
Williams)
-Self-Assembled
Fullerene Nanostructures (Jie Liu)
-Conformal, Magnetic,
Electrostatic & Hydophobic-Hydrophilic Self-Assembly (Karl Bohringer )
-Self-Assembled
DNA-Metal Aggregates (George C. Schatz)
-Self-Assembled
Surface Chemistry (Lloyd Smith)
-Peptide
and Viral Self-Assembly (Michael
Hecht)
(iii)Applications
Areas:
-Self-Assembled
Autonomous Molecular Devices (Andrew
Turberfield)
-Self-Assembled
Molecular Sensors (Homme
Hellinga)
Round-Table
Discussion by Program Managers of Existing Funding Programs & Proposed
Plans for New Funding Programs (9:00 PM-9:30 PM April 22)
coChairs:
Sri Kumar
<skumar@darpa.mil>, Information Processing Technology Office(IPTO), Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), Arlington, VI and
Mitra Basu <mbasu@nsf.gov>,
Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, Directorate
for Computer and Information Science and Engineering(CISE), National Science
Foundation(NSF)), Arlington, VI
Other Round-Table Members:
-S. Kamal
Abdali < kabdali@nsf.gov>, Division of Computer-Communications
Research, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering(CISE), National Science
Foundation(NSF)), Arlington, VI
-Steven Ho <sho@darpa.mil>, Defense Sciences Office (DSO), Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), Arlington, VI
-Kwan Kwok<kkwok@darpa.mil>
Microsystems Technology Office (MTO),
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
Arlington, VI
-Thomas
Renz <thomas.renz@rl.af.mil>, Information Directorate, Air Force Rome
Labs(AFRL), Rome, NY
-Nikzad
(Benny) Toomarian <nikzad.toomarian@jpl.nasa.gov>, Bio-Nano
Technology Office, Life Detection Science & Technology Program, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA