 The Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology
November 5-8, 1997; Palo Alto, CA
This page now serves as an archive for the 1997 conference.
The Next Conference
The Sixth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology will be held November 13-15 1998, at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, CA. The Tutorial will be on November 12, 1998. Information is available on the web at http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT6/index.html.
Video tapes
Video tapes of the conference are available from Sound Photosynthesis, POB 2111 Mill Valley, CA 94942-2111, USA; 1-415-332-1533; faustin@sound.photosynthesis.com. Sound Photosynthesis also offers a Richard Feynman page, where the videotape of Feynman's lecture "tiny machines" about nanotechnology appears.
The 1997 Conference Archive
| Conference Co-chairs: |
Ralph C. Merkle
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center |
Al Globus
MRJ, Inc./NASA Ames Research Center |
General
The conference began with a reception the evening of Nov. 5. It was a multidisciplinary meeting on molecular nanotechnology, that is, thorough three-dimensional structural control of materials and devices at the molecular level. Attendees included chemists, materials scientists, physicists, engineers, computer scientists and others interested in learning about the field and participating in its development.
Topics Covered
This conference was a meeting of scientists and technologists
working in fields leading toward molecular nanotechnology:
thorough three-dimensional structural control of materials and
devices at the molecular level. The conference covered topics
relevant to the pursuit of molecular control:
- supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly
- proximal probes (e.g. STM, AFM)
- biochemistry and protein engineering
- computational chemistry and molecular modeling
- computer science (e.g. computational models, system design issues)
- fullerene nanotechnology
- natural molecular machines (e.g. flagellar motor)
- materials science
- mechanical engineering (CAD) and robotics
Invited Speakers:
Sponsor
Foresight Institute
General Corporate Sponsor
Beckman Instruments
Beckman provides quality products and services that
simplify or automate laboratory processes resulting in
improved customer productivity and efficiency to the
following selected market segments:
Bioresearch/Biotechnology; Clinical Diagnostics
Sun Microsystems
Founded in 1982 by four idealistic young pioneers with
a shared vision of decentralized, heterogenous computing
systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. has emerged as a global
Fortune 500 leader in enterprise network computing, with
over $8 billion in revenues and operations in 150
countries.
Supporting Corporate Sponsors
AMP
AMP Incorporated (NYSE: AMP) is the world leader in
the design and manufacture of electrical and electronic
connectors and interconnection systems. Headquartered in
Harrisburg, PA, AMP has 45,000 employees in 50 countries
in Europe, Asia/Pacific and the Americas and serves
customers in these industries: automotive, aerospace,
computer networking, power and utilities,
telecommunications, industrial and consumer goods. AMP
had sales of $5.47 billion in 1996.
Apple Computer
Apple Computer is the technology-leading computer
hardware and software company. Apple has been a sponsor
of previous conferences.
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company is the world's second largest
maker of autos and trucks, with other interests including
plastics and electronics.
JEOL
JEOL Inc. is the Japan-based maker of electron
microscopes, mass spectrometers, and other precision
electronic equipment.
Park Scientific Instruments
Park Scientific Instruments (PSI) was founded in 1988 by Stanford University researchers to develop commercial instrumentation for scanning probe microscopy (SPM). Over the last 9 years, PSI has become the worldwide technology leader in atomic force microscopes (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) used in both ambient and ultra-high vacuum.
Zyvex
Zyvex is the first research and development company
focused on developing an assembler for molecular
nanotechnology. Started in April 1997, and headquartered
in Richardson Texas, the company has hired its initial
researchers and is building a lab capable of the task it
has set itself. In spite of being a small company, with
less than $20M in funding, Zyvex plans to achieve its
goal in less than 10 years.
For more information about becoming a corporate
sponsor, please contact
the Foresight Institute
Cosponsors
Argonne Mathematics and
Computer Science Division
Caltech Materials and
Process Simulation Center
Carnegie Mellon
School of Computer Science
Elba Foundation
(Italy)
Institute for Molecular
Manufacturing
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory NERSC
The MITRE Corporation
Molecular Graphics Society of the Americas
NASA Ames Numerical
Aerospace Simulation Systems Division
Ohio Supercomputer Center
Rice Univ. Center for
Nanoscale Science and Technology
Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology Dept. of Computer Science
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Stanford Univ. Dept.
of Materials Science and Engineering
USC Molecular Robotics
Lab
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Washington Univ
Lab. for the Study of Novel Carbon Materials
Program Committee
Phaedon Avouris
IBM Research Division |
William A. Goddard III
California Institute of Technology |
Charles W. Bauschlicher, Jr.
NASA Ames Research Center |
Nadrian C. Seeman
(1995 Feynman Conference Prize Winner)
New York University |
Donald W. Brenner
North Carolina State University |
Richard Smalley
(1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
Rice University |
Eric Drexler
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing |
Abstracts and Papers
Dates:
| Monday June 30: |
Abstracts were Due |
| Wednesday July 30: |
Notification of Acceptance |
| Tuesday September 30: |
Final Papers Due |
Abstracts:
The Abstracts for Talks and Posters presented at the conference are available.
Publication of papers
Papers will be refereed and those accepted for publication will be published in a special issue of the journal Nanotechnology. Al Globus and Deepak Srivastava will serve as guest editors for this issue. Sample articles published in Nanotechnology have been made available on the Web by Ralph Merkle.
All papers must be submitted in HTML.
All papers accepted for the conference will be made available
on the web, linked from the conference page. For those papers
accepted for publication, the web version will also act as a
pre-print.
Index of full papers.
Each full paper is also linked from the respective abstract.
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